The Blog Fodder

My inbox and news feed this past couple of weeks had been filled with stories of the British enquiry into the 2006 poisoning of Litvinenko,...

Eastern Europe was blasted by a heavy snow storm and blizzard conditions, from what I gathered on the news.  The temperatures were not cold...

For the citizens of Russia, things are going from bad to worse.  The ruble is down, inflation is rampant and Russia's sanctions against...

Russia's war against Ukraine continues unabated.  The Russian proxies in Donbas attack Ukrainian positions many times every night, resu...

I read more than these but didn't keep as close track by writing in the dates I finished them so those ended up in a general heap and n...

Goodreads helps me keep track of books I have read and a place to write a review if I am so moved.  It also gives me a list of the books I ...

The temperature dropped to -10C three days ago and it has been trying to snow ever since.  So perhaps we will get winter.  In parts of th...