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Month: November 2019

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Engineering

ST9400C Boiler Timer Fault

14th November 2019 Going Postal 0

After moving home in June this year, the new place needed a fair bit of attention outside, re-pointing brickwork, replacing wood decking and rebuilding a badly blown wall sitting on a rusted steel lintel were [more…]

Conservatives

Decisions, decisions

14th November 2019 Rookwood 0

I recently composed an article where I posited that unless there was some kind of rapprochement between the Conservatives and the Brexit Party, there was a considerable risk that this would usher in a new [more…]

Arts

How Puffins Are Made

13th November 2019 Going Postal 0

This post was inspired by Tiredofeulies, who lamented the fact (and it is a fact) that the younger generation seem so entirely unable to understand any concern the older generation might have for the direction [more…]

Arts

Reggie’s Guide to Stopping Unwanted Marketing

13th November 2019 Going Postal 0

Many people get annoyed when they receive unwanted calls, texts, emails and letters.  Having worked in the direct marketing industry for 35 years I thought I would put together a short guide covering the steps [more…]

Fiction

Joe Malone, Part Thirty-Eight

12th November 2019 Going Postal 0

Joe Malone was arranging his exit from the UK via a People Smuggler he’d met in the cafe. I was just about to seal the deal, when a deep voice from just behind me exclaimed [more…]

Arts

Medlar Jelly

12th November 2019 Going Postal 0

Ingredients 2.5 kg ripe medlars 600g unripe medlars 3 small unripe apples or 20 crab apples 3 lemons 3 litres water 1.5 kg granulated sugar Pinch of saffron 1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon 2 ground cloves [more…]

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Arts

Cancel Your Telly Tax Now

12th November 2019 Beware of Geeks bearing GIFs 0

My previous articles on this site describing how I have stopped paying the Telly Tax for 10 years have been relatively benign and within a strict legal paradigm, much to the relief of Swiss Bob, [more…]

Biography

Confessions of a Legitimate Bastard

11th November 2019 Rookwood 0

Some of you will be expecting this article to be based around instructions on how to be an absolute, grade 1, greasy shit. Looking at the state of the UK over past few decades, there [more…]

Authoritarianism

I Do Not Want To Spoil The Party

11th November 2019 Viciousbutfair 0

Wiki: Overton_window An Introduction to the Overton Window of Political Possibility There have been some impressive and heated election debates here and on other political blogs in the past few days. The merits of strategic [more…]

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