Simple Scrappy Saturdays

It is not to late to join the Simple Scrappy Saturday Class. We begin our next project Homestead Harvest from Kim Diehl's book Simple Ap...

Burton Overy after the GPO

Burton Overy still has a pub, a church and and a village hall, which are about all the facilities a village can expect today. Even the idea ...

Alastair Campbell suspects David Cameron is too posh to push

View image | gettyimages.com Alastair Campbell comments on the strangely ineffectual Conservative campaign so far: Miliband looks, sounds ...

Treating Jack Straw differently

From BBC News : A UKIP parliamentary candidate is to be questioned over allegations he tried to influence voters by giving away sausage roll...

Commercial IT Fuels DoD Information Environment, Official Says

By Cheryl Pellerin DoD News, Defense Media Activity WASHINGTON, April 10, 2015 – Defense Department Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorse...

Yogi Berra is still with us

View image | gettyimages.com I have long known of Yogi Berra, the baseball player and coach, and his famous sayings. But for some reason I ...

Carrying Words

When you reach into your pocket forgotten treasures may be discovered.  Depending on the owner of the clothing these tokens represent captur...

Political psychiatry in the countries of the former Soviet Union

One of the worst human rights abuses in the later years of the Soviet Union was the use of psychiatry to repress dissidents. If you question...

Six of the Best 503

"We simply can’t afford to do it all, all the while ruling out any more cuts to army numbers. The real gamble with the nation’s securit...