I've had a quiet week with the occasional minor frustration and the occasional minor triumph to punctuate the days. I've been putt...

The week has sailed past without making much of an impact. With Mel back from the US, we had a lazy weekend trying to catch up on some TV....

Commando issues on sale 22 October 2015. Commando No 4855 – Eagles Of Dunkirk Corporal Sean Carrick excelled as an anti-tank gunner in ...

I have spent a week on my own while Mel was in America for a friend's wedding and thought it was going to be an opportunity to catch u...

In his "Looking at Hollywood" column published on 18 April 1938, entertainment reporter Ed Sullivan noted the passing of his al...

As my Friday night reading has been the delightful X Marks the Spot , I thought I'd see what I could find out about its author. X Ma...

I'm writing this Friday morning, so it's going to be quick. I would normally write the Comic Cuts column on a Thursday, but I was ...

Commando issues on sale 8th October 2015. Commando No 4851 – Eagles Over Flanders When conscripted in November 1917, young Jack Carrick...

(* The news has just reached me that Henning Mankell died this morning at the age of 67. He had been suffering from cancer since 2014. This ...