The Chicken Coop
We love eggs but wouldn’t bother to keep chickens in order to get any. We prefer to…
Chickens coming home to roost?
Well, well, well. Scaremongering and doomists have been predicting the end of Britain once we Brits leave the…
THE METROPOLITANS — Episode Fifty
A saga of everyday life in the Big L and a wry look at contemporary culture By Tony…
May-be?
We’ve been watching the deroulement (a nice little French word there that sounds a lot like what’s going…
Unicorns and Nightmares
Let it not be said we’re asleep on the job here in our dismal pit. No wide awake…
Where To With The Metropolitans?
Back last spring when Tim decided to introduce the Continental Telegraph, we discussed the kind of content that…
Maple-suckers
Sometimes what you read makes your eyes pop out of your head. And, no, it isn’t the salacious…
A Piece of Cake – Mike Ashley Chases Patisserie Valerie
We’ve into a compare and contrast story here in these Sceptre’d Isles. But first an incy-wincy bit of…
THE METROPOLITANS — Episode Forty Nine
A saga of everyday life in the Big L and a wry look at contemporary culture By Tony…
Diesel Hurt
Sometimes we emerge from our pit to gaze out of the window at the world about us. What…