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Month: October 2019

20th Century

Aspiring Anorak Aversion Therapy

24th October 2019 Going Postal 0

The subject heading may read as though it is an introduction to an accountancy exam, but no, it is aversion therapy applied to an obsession, by licensed operators of machines such as the Dehavilland Chipmunk [more…]

America

Jeri Ryan and Barack Obama

23rd October 2019 well_chuffed 0

Jeri Ryan, or you may know her better as Seven of Nine from Star Trek Voyager, and Bathhouse Barry you say, what can they possibly have in common. Seven of Nine is fiction and Bathhouse [more…]

Arts

PMQs with Going Postal

23rd October 2019 Going Postal 0

Link to PMQs on Parliament TV.  

Fiction

Joe Malone, Part Thirty-Five

22nd October 2019 Going Postal 0

Ch 35 – Deer Stalker. The sun was well up now. Nina’s Novazyanka had taken me out. I had slept for more than two hours, that was for sure. Leo’s phone said 1.01pm. I tried [more…]

Arts

The English Pub

22nd October 2019 Godfrey Bloom 0

After many years of leading tours of European battlefields I decided to add another string to my bow & took the course at St. William’s College to qualify as a professional guide at York Minster. I [more…]

19th Century

Postcard From Cumbria (A Week in the Lake District) Part 2

21st October 2019 Colin Cross 0

Monday 22/09 Wray Castle-Hawkshead-Claife Viewing Station We’d a full day planned for Monday so it was an early start for us, initially to Ambleside for breakfast at “Kysty Café”. Kysty is Cumbrian dialect for fussy, [more…]

Economics

A buying opportunity in precious metals

21st October 2019 Going Postal 0

After a remarkable run over the past few months, gold and silver now appear to have entered a period of consolidation. Many speculators and short-term focused investors have sold their positions fearing a correction, while [more…]

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Fiction

Némésis – Book 2 Part 2

20th October 2019 Blown Periphery 0

London, Sunday 14th January 2018 – Spooks It had been a short walk from Vauxhall Cross, across Lambeth Bridge and then north to the Costa Coffee house just off Trafalgar Square. As it was a [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary Week Eight

20th October 2019 Going Postal 0

Monday Unlike my prediction on Saturday, yesterday was reasonably peaceful here at Number 10. The only thing worth mentioning was that David Cameron is stirring it up again in the Sunday papers. Everyone hates a [more…]

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