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On Trial. Day 3.
By Deputy Editor Sergeant Frosty Trust me, it's not loaded. The Editor is still away on Jury Service. Apparently the lift in the Court...
May 14, 20242 min read


On Trial. Day 2.
By Deputy Editor Sergeant Frosty. The Deputy Editor. Yesterday, the warm meat-sack sometimes called “Oi, you,” or “Thingummy” or...
May 13, 20243 min read


On Trial. Day 1.
By The Editor. Going AWOL for a time. There is likely to be an unpredictability about if and when articles will be posted on the blog for...
May 12, 20242 min read


A Myth is Good for a While. Part 2: Stone Circles.
By the non-mythical Sergeant Frosty. Castlerigg Stone Circle, near Keswick. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Stone circles. There are...
Apr 24, 20246 min read


A Myth is Good For a While
By the Non-Mythical Sergeant Frosty. Siwash Rock, Vancouver. There is currently a debate on changing the name of the feature to...
Apr 1, 20245 min read


The Way Things Were. Maybe.
By David Flin He's not happy. In some circles, it is considered fair game to sneer at historical re-enactors as plastic imitations, as...
Mar 15, 20248 min read


Vignette: Queen of the Windsor Castle
By A Snow Marine. The author. Picture courtesy Sergeant Frosty Publications. In a previous article , I looked at Namesakes, and the...
Mar 11, 202410 min read


Alternate Namesakes
By No-One Important And, once you have read the article, you'll know the game and can come up with an explanation connecting these two...
Mar 1, 20246 min read


Alternate Quotes
By David Flin The Editor is In. That pile of work to his left is disturbingly small. He's getting worried. When the Editor gets involved...
Jan 19, 20242 min read


Monthly Vignette: Cheap at the Price
By David Flin. Every month, SLP runs a vignette competition with a specific prompt. The current competition, the 70th, has as its theme...
Jan 6, 20248 min read


A Christmas Tale
By David Flin It's the Snow Marine himself. A Christmas story is, I am given to understand, traditional at this time of year. I am...
Dec 25, 202328 min read


Call for Articles
He's glaring at you. You can't see it because of the spectacles, but he is. Yes, it’s that time of an editorial reign of terror that the...
Sep 15, 20232 min read


POD Cast. October 14th, 1066
By David Flin Draw up the spears on the hill-top at Hastings, Fight till the sun drops and evening grows cold, And die with the last of...
Sep 6, 20234 min read


War of the Worlds in Real Time: Interview with Andrew Harvey.
Interviewer: David Flin Throughout June, Hague Publishing ran a version of The War of the Worlds through the format of Twitter. The story...
Aug 30, 202313 min read


Restoring the Order
The Old Guard Now, where was I? I’m back. That means that AndyC’s reign of terror as substitute magazine editor is over, and my reign of...
Aug 26, 20231 min read


Book Nook: The Flashman Series, by George MacDonald Fraser
Review by David Flin Illustration for George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman. Picture courtesy Gino d'Achille. One of the constant debates...
Aug 24, 20237 min read


Insulting a Regiment
By David Flin The inspiration for so much stuff. Available from LibriVox. In a previous article , Eoin Mulligan gave us an overview of...
Aug 8, 20235 min read


Alternate Quotes
By David Flin He's not going to be amused, is he. It all started with a joke. Someone (I forget who) quoted Churchill’s famous comment...
Jul 29, 20232 min read


Comic Corner: Captain Britain by Alan Moore and Alan Davis
Towards an Earth that is not Earth. Alternate realities - don't you just love them. Written in the early 1980s, this series, along with...
Jul 25, 20235 min read


Book Nook: Ten Years Beyond Baker Street
Why, yes. My copy is getting a bit dog-eared. How can you tell? Ten Years Beyond Baker Street, by Cay Van Ash The premise of this story...
Jul 7, 20232 min read
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