Broad Oak Magazine

( pic source ) When the snow falls wunderbar And the children happy are, When the Glatteis on the street And we all a Glühwein need...

(Pic source: RT News ) Readers of George Orwell’s “Homage to Catalonia” (1938) will remember the author’s strength of feeling for the c...

The Daily Mail flashes its richman fangs at strike-hit France - such an awful place, eh? That would explain why the late Sir Stuart Bell MP...

In October 1704 Alexander Selkirk was marooned on Mas a Tierra , an uninhabited island some 400 miles off the coast of Chile. From Googl...

According to the Loeb Classical Library translation, the root of the name "Odysseus" is "man of pain". Athene, remonstra...

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 A blood-feud in Iceland, a thousand years ago: Halldor and others have just killed Bolli in his dairy, while his wife Gudrun is out......

The Global Peace Index for 2014 ranks Iceland first (htp: Tony Blair Faith Foundation ). Here are the top ten: Source   Iceland&#...

Expat Paul Tredgett recounts the challenges of an outback B&B in a hurricane... Satellite image: Google Every business has diffic...

  At the Marldon Apple Pie Fair, Devon, 26.07.2014 On a count of three, the children pull out a random fruit. We won! Brilliant.   ...

Click to enlarge (Pic source) Stow-on-the-Wold, heart of the Cotswolds and these days a tourist stop. We grumbled about the variable...

Vanuatu Independence 1980 ribbon and medal ( Images source ) Andrew Roberts in this week's Spectator : "To the magnif...

Jeremy Clarke is the Low Life columnist for the Spectator magazine. He lives in Devon's South Hams and mixes humbly (a word he's fo...

"... Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action," said Ian Fleming's Auric Goldfinger:  (Birmingham)  (Cove...

Eudora Welty at home in Jackson, Mississippi (pic source) From "Why I Live At The P.O." : It wasn't five minutes before...

(pic source) I have long felt that Celts have greater respect for learning than Anglo-Saxons. It seems to me that the descendants of th...