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June 10, 2026

Perthshire in the snow

Dear Reader, AT THE BEGINNING of our New Year, I have enclosed for you a photo of a finished painting entitled, Glen of Ice and

Charles Harris January 21, 2021

The Mummy Diaries – Toilet training Pt. Deuxième – the Dodo Fairy calls

ANOTHER Groundhog week! I’m not sure if it’s because it’s January, or maybe the weather, or maybe it’s because it’s not new anymore. Is it

Emma Hargan January 19, 2021

Musings of a REAL tank commander – Part 24 Patriot games in Kuwait

DID somebody say there’s a war on? Back at the Permanent Joint HQ in the UK (our superior HQ), they were beginning to get a bit

Stuart Crawford January 15, 2021

The Mummy Diaries: Lockdown 3.0 – we’ve got this!

HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all! And just like that it’s 2021. We couldn’t wait to see the back of 2020 and what’s changed exactly?

Emma Hargan January 11, 2021

The words and work of a classical painter in 2020 in a handful of letters and photos

FOR MY REVIEW of 2020 I thought I should provide you with excerpts of letters and art that help capture my experiences… Letter to a

Charles Harris January 4, 2021

ThinkBooks: A year in a book club

WHEN AN E-MAIL from the editor landed in my inbox asking for an opinion on a book I’d read in this dreadful year, three thoughts

Alan Grant December 23, 2020

ThinkBooks: Despised: why the modern left loathes the working class

IN THE AFTERMATH of Labour’s crushing electoral defeat minds quickly turned to speculating how such a thing could have happened. Was it Brexit? Or perhaps

Dean M Thomson December 21, 2020

The Mummy Diaries – The socially distant Santa, Christmas baking and Mummy signs off

WOO HOO – It’s Christmas week, peeps, and I have to say that I’m super excited this year. This has been the most organised I

Emma Hargan December 21, 2020

ThinkBooks: Histories of the Habsburgs, Germany & the causes of WWI

FOR THOSE who don’t read German the last few years have seen the publication of at least three real page-turners on the history of Central Europe.

Alan Sked December 21, 2020

The night before Lockdown

‘Twas the night before Lockdown, when all through the house Not a citizen stirred, not even a spouse. The facemasks were hung by the front

Gawain Towler December 17, 2020

Musings of a Real Tank Commander – Part 23 Caught in the SCUD in Riyadh

THE AIR WAR had started. We rapidly became swamped with information and statistics – so many radars destroyed there, so many aircraft hit by small

Stuart Crawford December 17, 2020

The Mummy Diaries – Christmas decorations and little kids do not mix!

SO I WON THE BATTLE of getting the decorations up early! After seeing all the beautiful lights and trees up in the town, our house

Emma Hargan December 16, 2020