The inclusive nature of the competition does mean some pretty small clubs can take part which I think adds a real spark proceedings. In my region – the Nouvelle Acquitaine aka the south west – games kicked off last weekend with the First round. The regional associations are in charge of ...
My thoughts: set in the world of molly houses, secretive clubs where gay and bisexual men gathered when homosexuality was illegal and men could be hung for the crime of sodomy, The Betrayal of Thomas True relates in slightly Dickensian ways, the story of young Thomas True, who runs away to...
I didn’t really mind this but my mother and I did question the 18 dollar charge for 2 glasses of wine. When we politely asked what looked like the manager why the wine was expensive, she argued that 9 dollars a glass was cheap for the area. What really did agitate us was when ...
Smithbridge Partners, the company that owns the property, is controlled by Whit Gardner, founder of a local asset management firm. Cindy Gardner, his wife, has been the face of the property on Airbnb. The couple, who own 400 acres in the area, according to documents, recently pulled the ...
Perhaps the darkest work in the book is “The Strange Tale of Shimmering Moon Villa” where a young visitor to an area is told a story of the past by a local resident who lived through events which are harsh and unpleasant; he relates the history of the house, owned by strange local ...
In March, two of my favorite clubs sent out emails stating they were meeting with ClassPass executives because they were unable to stay in the service with discounted pricing. I was surprised how open the gym owners were, to the point where they sent out emails “we’re going to meet with...
Answer: RobertCATESBY(i.e. “traitor” – who led the gunpowder plot of 1605). Solution is C (a recognised abbreviation of “caught” used in a number of ball games) followed by AT (i.e. “next to” – a bit flaky in my book, but whatever), then ES (i.e. “case of explosiv...
This past week I started on a joint project with my husband. He had the idea to work together on a world-building project with an eye toward creating a setting for use across multiple media: Stories, tabletop RPG modules, maybe even some form of app (an area he’s been dying to get...
stop my car to open the security gates and toss my SLR over my shoulder. Lights ablaze I try to open the gate and I realise after all this time that we are sitting ducks whilst doing this if any terrorists were present. The Cumming family has just been murdered in our area, up until...
Or get into shows, or clubs. But that’s nothing compared to the suckage that is about to swallow up my situation into a deeper and much darker hole. And the situation is this: I am 18 years old and I just graduated from high school, but nobody here knows this. They think I am ...