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Month: August 2021

Arts

Postcard from Romania – Part Five

4th August 2021 SharpieType301 3200 Comments

Part Four of this Postcard from Romania revealed the joys of First-Class train travel through the ever-changing landscapes of this beautiful country, and a taste of Ursus, Romania’s most popular brew. We’d arrived at our [more…]

Arts

Postcard from Abergavenny

4th August 2021 Going Postal 3795 Comments

Following on from my Postcard from Monmouth we decided our next ‘big day out’ would be to Abergavenny.  A place I’ve probably travelled through in the past but never visited. We crossed the Bristol Channel [more…]

Biography

Sailing my life away, part 20

3rd August 2021 Ancient Mariner 2919 Comments

COMMENTS I visited Cambridge and Ely at the start of my summer break.  Here are a couple of pics taken there. I drafted parts 18,19 and 20 of these tales before leaving home to get [more…]

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Apsana Begum Bengali Benefits Bloodbath

3rd August 2021 Always Worth Saying 3061 Comments

After the trauma of Nike BLM England’s penalty misses and the despair at Orpington grammar school girl and women’s 100m semi-final looser Geraldina Asher-Smith not being able to take an Olympic podium knee, the GP [more…]

Computing

Cnuteneering, Part Twenty Five

2nd August 2021 El Cnutador 3018 Comments

Welcome back to Cnuteneering, where the possible is made more difficult by bone headed ignorance, overenthusiasm and pointy metal things being brought together. You may want to refresh your memory on the project in: Part [more…]

Authoritarianism

The great infantilisation

2nd August 2021 Rookwood 3811 Comments

It has puzzled me for considerable time now some of the truly childish “Warnings” that one finds on the side of food packets and generally throughout society these days. Nuts with the statement “Contains nuts”. [more…]

Fiction

The Man Who Played Ross – Chapter 30

1st August 2021 Blown Periphery 2478 Comments

Bartlett walked up the steep footpath to Glastonbury Tor and by the time he reached the top, he was breathing heavily. I’m getting too old for this, he concluded. The sun to the southeast cast [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Four

1st August 2021 Going Postal 1810 Comments

Monday Morning humans. What a lovely quiet weekend with Bozzie’s clan at Chequers for the weekend and the Dreamies girl feeding me. I must say she is most attentive. Always makes sure my drinking bowl [more…]

Arts

The Year Turns, Part 7

1st August 2021 Going Postal 2170 Comments

Lughnasadh For me, this was always one of the festivals which seemed to slip under the radar. Which is a shame, because it’s a nice social time, with fun and games, and good food. Falling [more…]

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