“It was as black as the night sky”: The Beast of Harborough returns

The Hatborough Mail reports that the Black Beast of Harborough was seen near Lubenham on two consecutive evenings earlier this month. We ha...

Peter Capaldi travelling in time before Doctor Who

Each episode of the second series of The All New Alexei Sayle Show, broadcast in 1995, featured a Drunk in Time sketch. This was a parody of...

The street name signs of Oakham

In Oakham today to visit the Dowager Lady Bonkers in hospital, I noticed that at one time the practice in the town was to paint street names...

Madeleine McCann: Hacks n' Ho's

As you may know, I have in the past, preserved for posterity, those that have either shilled for those responsible for the death of Madelei...

Fussy Friday #38

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Sandy Denny

#74260758 / gettyimages.com Over the years I have posted several songs by Sandy Denny (photographed here in about 1970): Solo (with Fairpo...

84 per cent Yes vote in Billesdon

Church Street, Billesdon   ©   Andrew Tatlow No, Billesdon is not an enclave of Scottish Nationalism. It is a village in Leicestershire and ...

Unexpected Alphabets No.24

Now this really was unexpected. I discovered it on a wall at the Blists Hill Victorian Town in Ironbridge and immediately knew what this wa...

Food Reward Friday

Today's lucky "winner"... waffles!!! Read more »