It’s Hard Cider Season!
Labor Day is in the rearview, the kids are back to school, and the days have grown noticeably shorter. In other words, Summer 2014 is pretty much winding down. Bummer. I know you’re going to miss the barbecues and fireworks, the lake swimming and vibrant, warming sunshine. I’m right there with you. ...
DIRTY LOVE by Andre Dubus III (fic)
It is usually best when an author writes about an area or culture that is familiar, rather than one that exitsts only in the imagination. Andre Debus's collection of four novellas takes place in an area that he is very familiar with, as he lives nearby the Newburyport/Amesbury neighborhoods he write ...
SCOTLAND THE GRAVE
Arturio's Views on the Scottish Question I have Scottish boots - my father's family could trace every birth from a Scots' Kirk to a Perthshire cottage from the earliest of records to those of the late Victorian days when, like many Scot's , they headed South to build the railways and engines of Engl ...
THE ALJUNIEDS OF ARAB STREET
When I was growing up in Singapore, my mother - who was a woman of some style - would always swear that the best place in all the city to buy batik cloth was Aljunieds of Arab Street. So while back in the southeast asian mega-city that is Singapore today, I made a bee-line for Arab Street, and was d ...
Wow, what a Summer!!!
Summer was awesome at The Rustic Cabin. We were so busy with our amazing guests. We had folks come from P.E.I., Ohio and even London, England!!! Many people were making a return visit and one couple have been coming for about 10 years. It was so busy and so great!!! Fall is here and the leaves are c ...
Looking for specific mpreg
I read a mpeg not that long ago, but now I can't find it. Draco left England to become a Swiss(?) citizen and while in England for a day or two slept with Harry. They both meant it to be a one night thing but Harry got pregnant. It was a multi-part fic and I remember Harry didn't tell Draco about th ...
Mystery Part XXI
The murderer unmasked? We come to it at last! The final post of Jayne Barnard's "The Evil Eye of Africa." In which our intrepid investigator holds the traditional summation with all the suspects together in the manor of the late Baron Von Boddy! If you think you have solved the mystery email your de ...
Sea Marsh, Birds And Rural England
The morning was hot. A rising heat-haze shimmered over the dew-doused grass of the cottage I was staying in. My home for the week was a refurbished farm building in the tiny village of Thursford, North Norfolk. The cottage was only, in reality, a resting point for sleeping and showering; my real obj ...
Ken Ham Is Furious About Scotland
We’ve been reporting about moves in the UK to ban creationism from tax-supported schools (except for their Religious Education classes). You can read about that here and here. That, of course, provoked an outraged post from Answers in Genesis (AIG), the on-line ministry of Ken Ham (ol’ Hambo), the a ...
Thoughts on Scottish Independence
Originally posted on The Libertarian Alliance: Thoughts on Scottish independence By Sean Gabb On the 18th September 2014, which is now just over a week away, the Scottish people will be asked if they wish to end the union of their country with England, and therefore to break up the United Kingdom. T ...
India's Tour of England: How Mahendra Singh Dhoni & Co. Fared
India's 77-day-long tour of England came to an end on Sunday, with a closely-contested one-off T20 going the hosts' way. Of the 11 matches on tour, Mahendra Singh Dhoni & Co. won 4 to claim the ODI series (3-1) while they lost five when they conceded the ...
