Wrong Place Stories February 23, 2016
Author: Beach Combing | in : ContemporaryIn 1975 Jeremy Thorpe, the then leader of the British Liberal Party, lost his head. After a homosexual affair had gone wrong – and in a period where this would have lost him his job and his name – he had a friend, telephone a ‘heavy’, Andrew Newton, to go and threaten his ex-boyfriend, Norman […]
Fastest Marchers July 8, 2013
Author: Beach Combing | in : Ancient, Contemporary, Medieval, ModernHow far can the average person walk in a day? Most of us walk about three miles an hour, which should mean that, if we didn’t develop blisters or stitch and if a man with jack boots had a pistol at our head, we could probably manage between thirty and forty miles a day. But […]