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Month: August 2021

Arts

The Swaling, Part Sixty Seven

7th August 2021 Always Worth Saying 2382 Comments

Mr Hong Gildong opened the double doors of the Lucky Saddle Craft Company’s underground Salon Prive gaming room to reveal a diminutive figure wrapped in a sodden pac-a-mac. A hood was pulled over the face [more…]

Health

Postmortem result of SARS-CoV-2 vaccinated patient!

7th August 2021 Fred Brownbill 2042 Comments

By:- Torsten Hansen, Ulf Titze and Ludwig Wilkens Foreword by Fred Brownbill. – The optimist sees the doughnut, the pessimist sees the hole, and the realist sees the calories. Today’s blog is interesting to say [more…]

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Crossword No. 182

7th August 2021 Going Postal 2182 Comments

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 181 and a GP [more…]

20th Century

My Legends of Pop Music – Part Four – Cliff Richard

6th August 2021 Phil the Ex Test Manager 2721 Comments

If I get this right, there will be many cover versions by future bands.  I shall try and link live versions if they exist from the tellybox or a film, the sound quality may not [more…]

Fiction

Jinnie’s Story – Book Two, Chapter Seven

6th August 2021 Going Postal 2305 Comments

On the drive home from the barracks, Jinnie realised that she was hungry. “It must be all the nervous energy I’ve expended,” she thought. Up ahead was a PizzaExpress, one of the few fast-food chains [more…]

Arts

GB News Review

6th August 2021 Always Worth Saying 2100 Comments

GB News 5th August 2021 Present: Malcolm Rifkin (Conservative) David Edgar (Rangers fan) Andrew Doyle (Commentator) Peter Rolton (Britishvolt) Venue: Andrew Neil with Colin Brazier On last week’s GB News Brazier and Muroki review, Tom [more…]

Biography

An Everyday Story of London Folk

5th August 2021 Going Postal 2673 Comments

My mother died on 14 February 2002. It still feels like only yesterday I lost her. Very suddenly without any previous illness. My mum was born in 1919 to a war torn and disabled father [more…]

20th Century

Behind the Bamboo Curtain, Part Five

5th August 2021 Going Postal 2039 Comments

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…]

Authoritarianism

We have all been had

5th August 2021 well_chuffed 2141 Comments

The scam continues. I have posted this graph in the comments but seeing as no c— reads them I thought I might do an article but no c— reads them either. The graph shows the [more…]

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