Reasons for starting this web blogging thingummy
This is - credit where credit's due and all that - my manservant Prakash's idea. After I received yet another rejection letter from a publisher for my memoirs - "out of step with the times and frankly...
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My father
I believe that in memoirs it is considered the done thing to provide a little background concerning one's ancestors, or at least those of them who left a name and address. My father - Maj Willoughby...
View ArticleClarity prevails in the East Indies, if not in Croydon
Pardon my departure from the purported topic and what-not, but Prakash has just drawn my attention to a newsreel item from Bali, concerning riotous goings-on among the melon-headed monkeymen. For those...
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Schooldays
When I was seven, my parents packed me off to Shuggie McDuff's Caledonian Academy for Pale Youths, widely known at the time as an expensive private boys' school and much favoured among gentlemen...
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Rum goings-on in Much-Felching-on-the-Wold
The pleasant Gloucestershire village in which I have spent most of my retirement is unusual in a number of respects. It is, for example, the only parish in England which technically belongs to the...
View Article"An eye for an eye"
A lovely sermon yesterday. The "Corpus" Christie preached on Deuteronomy 19:21:"And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot."I...
View ArticleThe Citizenship Test - a much-needed correction
Prakash raised an interesting point the other day. Chap showed me a test on the interwebbing thingummy which contained a "Citizenship Test" the bally government are insisting anyone coming into Britain...
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The Bouzkashi game at Kandahar
After McDuff's closed down, it was of course understood that I would try for one of the colonial forces, but at the time was still a little too young. My father then arranged for me to go on attachment...
View ArticleBit of a brouhahaha
Apologies for getting distracted again and what-not, but Havildar Prakash has got himself into a spot of trouble with the law - chap came home as pleased as punch the other night, as the local women's...
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Et tu, Daily Telegraph?
Choked on m'kedgeree the other day at a front page headline in The Daily Telegraph, announcing that 'experts'(presumably the sort with pale complexions, clammy hands and long gaberdine overcoats) have...
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