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Month: July 2020

Arts

The Swaling, Part Twelve

18th July 2020 Always Worth Saying 4017 Comments

If you’d visited Madrid’s Prado Gallery in the early 1980s, about a decade previous to (contrary to the artist’s wishes), it’s star attraction Picasso’s Guernica being moved to its own museum, you may have noticed [more…]

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Crossword No. 127

18th July 2020 Going Postal 3385 Comments

First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a GP mug. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Last week’s winner. 126 bogblaster. Answers with next week’s crossword. [more…]

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A Glass Half Full

17th July 2020 Going Postal 5572 Comments

In a previous article, I asked whether you had ever gazed into your pint and wondered about the beginnings of beer and brewing. This time, I’ll ask you another question. It’s about the pint pot [more…]

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Postkarte aus Bochum (Woanders ist auch Scheiße)

16th July 2020 Going Postal 3257 Comments

Herbert Grönemeyer made this town a whole lot more famous with his 1984 album “4630 Bochum”. More of Herr G later, but where, I hear some of you ask, is this magical place of which [more…]

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Reform & Real Reform

16th July 2020 Emile Woolf 3586 Comments

Those of us struggling to get a grip on Chancellor Sunak’s latest relief-measures should note the terminology. He seeks to revive the Covid-stricken economy with a series of tax “giveaways”.  When anyone in government talks [more…]

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My Apprenticeship, Part Two

15th July 2020 Going Postal 3233 Comments

Part one went through the first two years of my drawing office apprenticeship with Babcock and Wilcox Ltd. During the second year, Babcock and Wilcox Ltd became Babcock and Wilcox (Operations) Limited. The first of [more…]

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An early airman’s tragic adventure

15th July 2020 Going Postal 4012 Comments

Early 1930: It had been a depressing English winter – cold, dark and wet for weeks on end. In West Wickham, a young man who had left Australia five years earlier and settled here in [more…]

History

The Brown Bull Hotel

14th July 2020 Going Postal 7869 Comments

In the eighties I worked as a Home Office representative in Immigration Tribunal Appeals in London. We were a team of ordinary civil servants and were pitted against solicitors, barristers, silks, practitioners with an agenda. [more…]

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War Crimes Chapter 16 – The Little Girl from Derby

12th July 2020 Blown Periphery 9541 Comments

War Crimes Chapter 16 Afarin Khan had never been blessed with the type of cleverness required to ingest, sift, collate and then regurgitate information onto an examination paper.  If anything as far as the British [more…]

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