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Month: July 2021

20th Century

Behind the Bamboo Curtain, Part Three

22nd July 2021 Going Postal 0

My uncle was a staff reporter for the Manchester Evening News from the late 1940s until his death in 1973. The following is from a series of articles in which he describes his extensive visit [more…]

Computing

A Simple R6G Dye Laser – Part 2

21st July 2021 Doc Mike Finnley 0

Lamp Light And Laser Light Pulsed lasers, like this, use an intense burst of white light (lasting fractions of a second) to stimulate the electrons in the laser’s gain medium. In the above photo you [more…]

Arts

Cruisin’ with Mr Covid

21st July 2021 Going Postal 0

Cruising usually gets the eye-roll treatment from Puffinry, but Larry the Cat has an interest, so there. Mrs B and I seized the opportunity for a change of scenery. At certain points in your life [more…]

Biography

Sailing my life away, part 19

20th July 2021 Ancient Mariner 0

RESPONSE TO COMMENTS ON PART 17 There were some great comments on Part 17 so thanks to every-one for that. There are two in particular and one question I’d  like to pick out and reproduce. I [more…]

Arts

Postcard from Monmouth

20th July 2021 Going Postal 0

With the prospect of a holiday (foreign or UK) looking increasingly unlikely Mrs Reggie and I decided we would try and fit in a number of day trips to break the tedium of everyday life.  [more…]

Arts

A Hard Bunch Of Old Folkers

19th July 2021 bobo 0

This a true story, and for once I can be unusually precise as to the date: towards the end of July in 1983. I was living in North Yorkshire at the time, and me and [more…]

Fiction

The Man Who Played Ross – Chapter 28

18th July 2021 Blown Periphery 0

Jarvis pondered about where he was going to live, to hide, to escape. The Midlands? He thought of his mother who didn’t even know who he was and a brother who cared less. The Southwest [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Two

18th July 2021 Going Postal 0

Monday Morning all, it’s quite a pleasant morning, hope I can get some window sill time in this afternoon. Bozzie is doing another of his press conferences from No.10 at five this evening and as [more…]

Arts

Scorn Not The Sonnet

18th July 2021 Going Postal 0

Scorn not the Sonnet Thus wrote Wordsworth, and it’s probably true that sonnets are second only to limericks in the poetry popularity stakes. Both forms have the advantage of being short and memorable. But where [more…]

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