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Luck, Shysters and Jack O’Lantern February 8, 2013

Posted by Beachcombing in : Contemporary
Luck, Shysters and Jack O’Lantern

As this year’s epiphany gift Beach put up the only two numbers of a Fortean magazine from the 1940s entitled New Frontiers: we couldn’t host this on the website because of an upload limit, and we had to trust some external site which proved unreliable. Thanks to our webmaster, Raoul, the magazine though has now [...]

Black Cats: Unlucky for Some May 3, 2011

Posted by Beachcombing in : Actualite, Modern
Black Cats: Unlucky for Some

Beachcombing’s mother has flown in from the Dominions to visit her grandchildren and generally cause confusion – arguments over restaurant bills, dietary controversies and black cats… On the last point Beachcombing has to admit though that his mater has a point, one worth sharing with a wider audience. It would hardly be worth worrying about [...]

Sfiga! April 9, 2011

Posted by Beachcombing in : Actualite, Contemporary
Sfiga!

The last couple of days have been tense for Beachcombing. After seven fabulous, tripping-the-light-fantastic months of having no new symptoms from the illness that was tearing him apart, he was hit – bang – by a ‘change’. Though in itself minor this symptom may be a sign of worse things to come and Beachcombing is, [...]