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What We Feed Cats & Why It’s Far from Purrfect

April 18, 2020 / N. P. Ryan / Leave a comment

There’s something wrong with what we feed our cats. It isn’t secretly added or hidden from the ingredients. It’s right there on the label staring us in the face, but apparently we never see it.

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Animal Crackers

April 12, 2020September 15, 2020 / N. P. Ryan / Leave a comment

In 2019 while visiting an animal sanctuary in the UK, I found myself faced with hypocrisy of monumental proportions. Continue reading →

Google Chrome: a Security Warning

April 3, 2020 / N. P. Ryan / Leave a comment

Here’s a little something you might like to know about Google Chrome. Continue reading →

Covid-19 and What it Means for Zombies in Popular Culture

March 22, 2020September 30, 2021 / N. P. Ryan / Leave a comment

Covid-19 will mark a momentous turning point in zombie films/TV and, for that matter, anything of a post-Apocalyptic nature. Continue reading →

A Terrible Christmas Birthday Tale

February 15, 2020September 15, 2020 / N. P. Ryan / Leave a comment

Circumstance took me back to the UK just before Christmas; a landmark birthday on it had me stay to spend it with mother, who lives in Chard; a place located in deep and darkest Somerset.

By choice celebrations would start with friends on Christmas Eve; a visit to the pub with a massive Continue reading →

UK/Canada Differences: 11 – 20

February 9, 2020September 15, 2020 / N. P. Ryan / Leave a comment

Hello! Following on from 1 – 10 welcome to the next scintillating batch of the biggest differences between the UK and Canada. Continue reading →

Britain Beers Back!

January 23, 2020September 15, 2020 / N. P. Ryan / Leave a comment

It was recently reported by the BBC that pub numbers in the UK have risen for the first time in a decade. It’s surely no coincidence that a) it was ten years ago that I left; b) I spent twelve weeks there in 2019 – double any other year since leaving.

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Don Wars: The Cherry Strikes Out!

November 19, 2019September 15, 2020 / N. P. Ryan / Leave a comment

There’s a civil war taking place in Canada.

Divided into two warring factions, never have Canadians been so irate and aggressive towards Continue reading →

Killing Joke & How I Might’ve Almost Ended-up Being a Porn Star

November 18, 2019September 20, 2020 / N. P. Ryan / Leave a comment

Recently I’ve been thinking of writing something about how certain songs can take me to a very specific time and place.

Last week I was lucky enough to see Continue reading →

Differences Between the U.K. & Canada: The Definitive List 1 – 10

October 27, 2019September 15, 2020 / N. P. Ryan / Leave a comment

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Drinking in a dingy bar by the sea, crumpled postcard from Her and World’s Biggest Ray Zero for company; then the son of a starts saying I’m cursed. Praise Be to lighting-up another smoke. Inhale, taste a foul brand: the Hex She put on me. Promised Heaven, delivered a dive nightclub Hell. Thank the Lord for liquor loving hot chicks. Though nothing compares to how it’ll feel catching up with Her.

Wanted a quick bit of business and gone. Bath had other ideas. First, battered and left for dead after a hundred heart-breaking truths. Then a Police Chief with a saggy old treasure chest of secrets to keep needs a scapegoat. Dumps me in the middle of corruption so deep it eases through bone to suck greedy at marrow. With every gun pointing my way, Hell, not even He’s gonna get me outta this one.

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Poetry without comment beyond thanks to Sincerely Media for use of the header image.

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Three songs made so famous by one band it’s often not realised they’re covers

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A short story about a real place. With thanks to Daniel Frank for use of the header image (not of the actual location).

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