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Month: July 2020

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Wendyball and BLM

7th July 2020 Lugosi 3384 Comments

I write this article as Keir Starmer says he can’t support BLM due to their Marxist/Socialist  ideas about defunding the police and Matt Le Tissier, a famous footballer and Sky TV soccer pundit questions whether [more…]

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The Northern Ireland Housing Trust & Rathcoole estate (1945-1971)

6th July 2020 Always Worth Saying 2909 Comments

Between the wars, a big public housing build in other parts of the United Kingdom was not replicated in Northern Ireland. Nor had there been grants for slum clearance. What public housing there was, had [more…]

Arts

The attitude should be gratitude

6th July 2020 Going Postal 3112 Comments

During these increasingly polarized times, it is easy for logical debates to give way to emotionally charged shouting matches. Once the idea of free dialogue is gone, riots, destruction and violence are sure to follow, [more…]

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War Crimes Chapter 15 – Moira and Edge’s Story, Holy Matrimony

5th July 2020 Blown Periphery 2791 Comments

War Crimes Chapter 15 Like most of the important milestones in Edge’s life his marriage was in the autumn, October 14th of 2000 at St John the Baptist Church Instow. It was and is a [more…]

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Larry’s Diary Week Forty Eight

5th July 2020 Going Postal 3915 Comments

Monday At breakfast this morning Bozzie asked the Little Otter “What day is it?” Well I thought, I know these Coronavirus days all merge into one, but surely her knows it’s Monday. But that wasn’t [more…]

Arts

The Swaling, Part Eleven

4th July 2020 Always Worth Saying 3050 Comments

Arriving at the border town of Irun, in the northern Pyrenees, there is always a bit of a scramble. A change of rail gauge means a change of train. Our connection was the overnight service [more…]

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Crossword No. 125

4th July 2020 Going Postal 4281 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. 124 jgm2 ( I really will get [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Volkswagen Golf 7 GTI Car Review

3rd July 2020 Always Worth Saying 4462 Comments

This is a review of the Golf 7 GTI, not the new Golf 8. Ominously, the Golf 8 is advertised as being “all digital”, as though that were a good thing. However, the car reviewed [more…]

Arts

The Great Escape, Part Two

3rd July 2020 Going Postal 4193 Comments

A sickening, plastic sounding, crunch. Check self – fine. Look around for any obvious danger – none. Smell for petrol – none. The area wasn’t notably busy, some people across the road were looking over [more…]

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