No Image

Speak For Yourself

December 31, 2013 Longrider 7

I usually ignore Polly Toynbee, such asinine drivel does she write However, I can’t let this claptrap pass by without comment. But don’t forget that politicians […]

No Image

Happy New Year

December 31, 2013 Longrider 1

A happy new year to all of my readers. So, another one passes into history. My sojourn in France seems but a distant memory these […]

No Image

Damn Good Thing, Too.

December 30, 2013 Longrider 0

“There is now a question mark about what parliament actually will authorise military support for,” Burt said. “There is the Gibraltar and the Falklands – […]

No Image

52 Weeks

December 29, 2013 Longrider 3

I saw Matt Frost interviewed this morning on the breakfast news programme. He has been a blacksmith, a stuntman and a pizza delivery boy but […]

No Image

Good Luck to Him

December 28, 2013 Longrider 11

Chris Agee stacks shelves in his spare time. But this isn’t Chris’s full-time job. In fact he’s not getting paid a wage at all. Chris […]

No Image

Little White Crosses

December 27, 2013 Longrider 0

On Flanders fields, bright red with poppies; Are rows upon rows of little white crosses. The slopes of the undulating Somme; Bear the sorrow of […]