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Month: August 2021

Biography

Sailing my life away, part 22

31st August 2021 Ancient Mariner 0

COMMENTS ON PART 21 AND YARNS ENSUING FROM THEM I really enjoyed the comments on part 21 and it seems invidious to single out just a few. However, I must apologise to both Wattylers wife [more…]

20th Century

The Desert War – August 1941

31st August 2021 well_chuffed 0

August 1941 was extraordinarily quiet in the theatres we are concentrating on. This month it is only news from Libya and precious little of it there is. But things were happening in Italy. In Tobruk [more…]

Book Review

Book Review: Death Set to Music

30th August 2021 Going Postal 0

Très bien pour un cadeau gratuity! Having time to sit down and read a book is a bit of a luxury for me, as well as the fact that I don’t have the patience to [more…]

Business

Switzerland: The safest of havens, Part II

30th August 2021 Going Postal 0

Why Switzerland? There are many good reasons that could easily explain the flock of so many wealthy families and investors to Switzerland and all of them have been reinforced by the pandemic. For one thing, [more…]

20th Century

Albert Ball – The Angel-Faced Killer

29th August 2021 Blown Periphery 0

Breakfast His place was laid, The messroom clock struck eight The sun shone through the window On his chair. No one commented on his fate, Save for a headshake here and there; Only old George [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Eight

29th August 2021 Going Postal 0

Monday Morning all. The last day of the Test match today so I expect it to rain even if it’s not forecast. Bozzie has got one of his Cobra meetings this morning, this one is [more…]

Literature

Miss Pronter’s Prescient Verses

29th August 2021 Going Postal 0

My Dear Friend, Miss. Pronter, has forgiven, but hardly forgotten, my betise in allowing some of her verses to be put forward here, under a mangled version of her name (‘You claim to be a [more…]

Arts

The Swaling, Part Seventy

28th August 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

As soon as Mr Hong Gildong allowed the doors to be opened, two hours after auctioneer Mr Tan had departed, there was a stampede along the dark and expensively carpeted secret underground passage that connected [more…]

Hobbies

Crossword No. 185

28th August 2021 Going Postal 0

First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a choice of GP authored book. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 184 and a GP [more…]

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