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Month: November 2021

Animals

Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Eighteen

7th November 2021 Going Postal 3894 Comments

Monday Morning merry readers, another week of reporting stretches ahead of me. I have been eating my breakfast and listening to the radio. I do wish Bozzie would stick to one station. I just get [more…]

20th Century

Mystery Album, Part Eight

6th November 2021 Always Worth Saying 2723 Comments

There are pleasures even the most adventurous of lives can deny a gentleman. Despite the tales of derring-do from his previous life more interesting (occasionally mildly exaggerated), there are places your author has rarely visited [more…]

America

January 6th – Political prisoners abused!

6th November 2021 Fred Brownbill 2030 Comments

This blog follows well onto my blog from a few days ago about Americans growing a set!! If this subject matter does not infuriate you and make you want to stand up and do something, [more…]

Hobbies

Crossword No. 195

6th November 2021 Going Postal 1877 Comments

First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a book to the value of £20. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Friday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 194 and a [more…]

20th Century

My Legends of Pop Music – Part Seventeen – Pussycat

5th November 2021 Phil the Ex Test Manager 3297 Comments

My Legends of Pop Music – Part Seventeen – Pussycat 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 [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story – Book Two, Chapter Twenty

5th November 2021 Going Postal 2481 Comments

Jinnie was in the unit’s minibus on the way to the shooting competition in Southampton when her mobile rang and a voice said, “Please hold for the Prime Minister.” Seconds later the now familiar voice [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

5th November 2021 Always Worth Saying 2199 Comments

Question Time 4th November 2021 The Panel: Paul Scully (Conservative) Emily Thornberry (Labour) Tim Stanley (Journalist) Caroline Lucas (Greens) Paul Polman (Former CEO) Venue: Eastleigh Amir wants to know if Tory sleaze has returned in [more…]

20th Century

Report From Kenya, March 1955

4th November 2021 Going Postal 3464 Comments

Two years into the Mau Mau emergency, my uncle John Alldridge reported from Kenya for the Manchester Evening News in March, 1955 – Jerry F.   Tactical Force Headquarters East Africa Command Nyeri, Kenya, Monday [more…]

Authoritarianism

Apollo 13 (Revised)

4th November 2021 Going Postal 4350 Comments

I wrote a few notes on Warble Gloaming recently, and with the gloomfest that is COP26 looming I thought it might be time to revisit them.  Here’s the second, on that well-known danger to Life [more…]

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