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Month: January 2021

Fiction

The Man Who Played Ross – Chapter 2

10th January 2021 Blown Periphery 5566 Comments

DUNCAN Great happiness! ROSS That now Sweno, the Norways’ king, craves composition: Nor would we deign him burial of his men Till he disbursed at Saint Colme’s inch Ten thousand dollars to our general use. [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary, Week Seventy Five

10th January 2021 Going Postal 5607 Comments

Monday Hello everyone, I am a bit confused, it was Boxing Day on Saturday but it a bank holiday today and there seems to be very few in the office again. Well, at least there [more…]

Arts

The Swaling, Part Thirty Seven

9th January 2021 Always Worth Saying 4395 Comments

In real life, we’re sat in a row in the comms room, logged on to our computers. On the screens our avatars are in the virtual 3D interactive world of EYE, an intelligence archive retrieval [more…]

Hobbies

Crossword No. 152

9th January 2021 Going Postal 5299 Comments

First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a copy of Blown Periphery’s ‘War Crimes for the Political Elite’. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Last week’s [more…]

20th Century

A History of Pop Music – Albums 1973

8th January 2021 Phil the Ex Test Manager 6221 Comments

Featured Album: Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. I will select a featured album for [more…]

Animals

A Dog’s Life

8th January 2021 Columba Palumbus 4742 Comments

He was born in the maze of kennels and lean-tos in the back garden of an unassuming end terrace on the outskirts of Aldershot. The house was owned and inhabited by a strange and mysterious [more…]

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It’s a Bird………..It’s a plane……… No, It’s a Scotch Egg

7th January 2021 Going Postal 5110 Comments

Does it really take a planned demic to bring a much loved and often forgotten item out from the dark shadows of a corner shop chill cabinet and put in the spotlight front & centre [more…]

Arts

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

7th January 2021 Always Worth Saying 4588 Comments

Question Time 6th January 2021 Panel: Nadhim Zahawi (Conservative) Annaliese Dodds (Labour) Mark Walport (SAGE Scientist) Humphrey Cobbold (CEO of Pure Gym) Rachel Clarke (Doctor and Author) Venue: London Unhelpfully, Wednesday evening was punctuated by [more…]

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Hobbies

Shunting Along – part 7

6th January 2021 Sweaty Dave 5566 Comments

The run up to Christmas involved a few days helping out at Tanfield Railway – long hours and endless sanitising Santa’s Grotto meant not a great deal of work was done on the layout. Once [more…]

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