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  1. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 41 Bearthwaite Politics, Law, Lore and Reality

    A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 41 Bearthwaite Politics, Law, Lore and Reality One of the pupils at Whiteport Academy was Fergus McCann. To others fourteen year old Fergus was the ultimate alpha male. A big strong and physically unstoppable boy who was the star o ...

    - 2024/05/04 - 8:43pm - 7 comments

  2. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 42 Adoption, Education and Death

    A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 42 Adoption, Education and Death After the first serious beating by forces unknown of the most vociferous bigot, an overweight fifteen year old who went by the nickname of Porky, behind the dining hall even the name calling diminis ...

    - 2024/05/04 - 8:56pm - 2 comments

  3. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 43 Bearthwaite Beck, Solid Fuel & Limned Letters

    A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 43 Bearthwaite Beck, Solid Fuel & Limned Letters If Dr Tenby had any surprise at seeing a naked, eleven year old, biological female holding his father's hand she kept it to herself. At the end of Peter’s appointment, Dr Te ...

    - 2024/05/04 - 9:12pm - 2 comments

  4. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 44 Spring, Broadband, and Natural Justice

    A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 44 Spring, Broadband, and Natural Justice Since being a toddler, Violet had heard many conversations concerning war, it was something regularly discussed by Bearthwaite men, a number of who had served in the armed forces, and she h ...

    - 2024/05/04 - 9:26pm - 1 comment

  5. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 45 Teachers and Tofu

    A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 45 Teachers and Tofu “However, we’d been talking for no more than ten minutes when I realised I was in way over my head. I’d already made my mind up about her. She is our kind of folk, and desperate to be seen as such, so I rang fo ...

    - 2024/05/04 - 9:51pm - 4 comments

  6. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 46 Bringing the Past into the Future in the Present

    A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 46 Bringing the Past into the Future in the Present This is for those few of you who are interested in the GOM. For the first time since writing GOM 01 I have nothing left in the ideas file. There is nothing with which I can even b ...

    - 2024/05/04 - 10:05pm - 2 comments

  7. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 47 Increasing Independence

    A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 47 Increasing Independence “That story Angus prised out of her concerning that Landrace boar her grandfather gave her as a piglet when she was what? six or seven was priceless! And her mum’s reaction when her lurcher pup her dad ga ...

    - 2024/05/04 - 10:13pm - 2 comments

  8. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 48 Acquisitions Introductions and Interventions

    A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 48 Acquisitions Introductions and Interventions After interviewing three potential pharmacists Murray was beginning to lose hope. All three had been male and chauvinists, pigs to boot probably too, he’d said cynically to himself. H ...

    - 2024/05/04 - 10:20pm - 1 comment

  9. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 49 Needles Fell

    A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 49 Needles Fell You’ve only ever seen women like me power dress to do business. Then she waltzed in like a pretty little girl wearing that low cut flower print summer frock with a man who looked old enough to be her father and you ...

    - 2024/05/04 - 10:28pm - 3 comments

  10. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 51 Coneys, Bees and Fish

    A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 51 Coneys, Bees and Fish Continued on from GOM 50 on a Saturday evening in the Green Dragon Inn taproom A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 51⅒ So Just Where is Bearthwaite? is included before the footnotes For any as don’t know a coney is an ...

    - 2024/05/05 - 5:35am - 1 comment

  11. Galafriëlla

    Galafriëlla Arbret law was quirky and it gave all the right to whatever medical procedures they wanted, providing of course that they could pay for them. What the law did not do was allow any privacy, so medical staff could legally take money for informin ...

    - 2024/05/06 - 3:16pm - 1 comment

  12. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 52 Political Analysis

    A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 52 Political Analysis Continued on from GOM 51 on a Saturday evening in the Green Dragon Inn taproom “Christ, Lads, Dave missed his calling as a green grocer he should have been a diplomat. He’d have all the middle east conflicts s ...

    - 2024/05/14 - 7:13pm - 1 comment

  13. Stephanie Rogers: All-American Girl

    Drea DiMaggio Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transgender Senior / Sixty+ Accidental Rated M for Marvelous Posted by author(s) Someplace else at some other time... At the end of Avengers: Endgame, Captain America- Steve Rogers- assumes the daunting task of ...

    - 2024/05/13 - 5:46pm - 3 comments

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