Posted on: September 9, 2026

Thimble Theatre in January 1929 saw the introduction of a one-eyed sailor with watermelon forearms who was hired to get Castor Oyl to Dice Island and back, During the course of the adventure Popeye, the sailor, was revealed to be virtually indestructible – with a lot of help from the supernatural power of The Whiffle […]

The current distraction in Britain is that the Bayeux Tapestry is visiting from its home in France. The 11th Century tapestry is 70 meters long and 50 centimeters high, which wouldn’t fit in my livingroom but then it wasn’t designed for peasants. It depicts events leading to the conquest of Britain by William the Conqueror […]