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Month: January 2022

Arts

“Have a lovely evening!”

19th January 2022 Going Postal 3717 Comments

“Have a lovely evening” are the words I often heard as children were collected from school at 3.05pm.   Of course, as a member of SLT, I had nothing better to do at the end of [more…]

20th Century

A Very British Message to Garcia

19th January 2022 Always Worth Saying 5021 Comments

Previously, my colleague Fred Brownbill wrote of US Navy SEAL Marine Commander Brian Bourgeois, commanding officer of SEAL Team 8, who was killed in the first week of December 2021 while fast-roping from a helicopter [more…]

Biography

Sailing my life away, part 32

18th January 2022 Ancient Mariner 3146 Comments

RESPONSES AND YARNS There were loads of comments on part 31 including the one from Sparks who enquired whether I had discovered a time machine as I had dated the article Saturday 1 January 2002. [more…]

20th Century

The Desert War – January 1942

18th January 2022 well_chuffed 4282 Comments

The start of 1942 saw the British starting off on the front foot but ending the month retreating eastwards as the Germans and Italians advanced and as usual there was lots of action on the [more…]

Arts

Sparklets Soda Syphons of The ’60s & ’70s

17th January 2022 Going Postal 3062 Comments

The Beginning If society ever collapses to the point where I’m judged to be a suitable contestant on Mastermind, my specialist subject will be ‘Sparklets’ soda syphons of the 1960s and 70s’. I’ve been fascinated [more…]

Arts

Another Caribbean Christmas, Part One

17th January 2022 Going Postal 4448 Comments

I have been looking forward to getting back on board a cruise ship for some time now. Covid has caused the cancellation of 3 cruises for me so far (June 2020, Christmas 2020 and June [more…]

Fiction

The Colombian Sojourn – Chapter 20

16th January 2022 Blown Periphery 2917 Comments

St Juan de Pasto Main Operating Base, Bogotá and the lake Laguna De Tota, north-east of Bogotá Clarita Rivera was late arriving at the main operating base. She had a briefing for the Head of [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred And Twenty Six

16th January 2022 Going Postal 2620 Comments

Monday Morning everyone, I understand that I have to make the most of the next few days as my scribe is going to be missing for a bit, so this weeks diary may be truncated. [more…]

Christianity

Domesday

16th January 2022 Going Postal 2156 Comments

To begin with, it was a perfectly normal Tuesday: the usual saunter into the office, greeting people en passant – even if, in some cases, it was still only a frowningly vexed look, stepping aside. [more…]

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