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Month: September 2020

Arts

The Swaling, Part Twenty Two

26th September 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

By the time I’d returned to my room, paddling up the dripping steps, Emile had curled up on her end of my bed and had fallen asleep. Wept herself to sleep even, after overhearing me [more…]

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Crossword No. 137

26th September 2020 Going Postal 0

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. 136 – Glazinova. Answers with next week’s [more…]

20th Century

The History of Pop Music – 1998

25th September 2020 Philthetestmanager 0

Featured song: All Saints – Never Ever (UK Version) 

Arts

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

25th September 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 24th September 2020 Panel: Alok Sharma (Conservative) Louise Haigh (Labour) Sir Edward Davy (Liberal Democrat) Peter Borg-Neal (Businessman) Devi Sridhar (Public Health Official) Shappi Khorsandi (Comedian) Venue: Chingford The present MP for Chingford [more…]

Arts

Going Postal with Question Time

24th September 2020 Going Postal 0

Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents another hour of programming. On the panel are: Alok Sharma MP, secretary of state for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Conservative; Louise Haigh MP, shadow Northern [more…]

Arts

William George Bunter of Greyfriars School

24th September 2020 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction I recently emerged from a stunning and brave expedition into the furthermost recesses of our capacious loft space clutching a dusty cardboard box bearing the single word ‘Books’ that had lain forgotten there for [more…]

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Arts

In praise of journalists, or perhaps not

24th September 2020 well_chuffed 0

I am not a journalist, the closest I have ever been to them is while I was working at News International’s fortress in Wapping during the move from Fleet Street to Docklands in 1985/6. I [more…]

Arts

Art in Cocklecarrot Towers, Part Two

23rd September 2020 Going Postal 0

“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.” John Ruskin Following the unexpected and unlooked for international acclaim that spontaneously greeted the publication of the triumph [more…]

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Authoritarianism

Have you had a Good Pandemic?

23rd September 2020 Going Postal 0

Have you had a Good Pandemic? Well, dear Puffins, after six months of unemployment and six months before that having not much to do at work, I am soon going to start a new job [more…]

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