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Month: January 2022

Collecting

My Watch Collection

3rd January 2022 Going Postal 3702 Comments

I love wrist watches. My grandfather was a clockmaker, so it’s probably a genetic thing. The family story is that he narrowly avoided execution during WW2 by offering to mend the officers’ watches. (I had [more…]

Economics

Why governments practise currency debasement – and how to cure them

3rd January 2022 Emile Woolf 3775 Comments

I have written on the subject of currency debasement many times, but it is now reaching crunch-time – even for the pound, dollar, yen and euro.  Most respected economists persist in defining inflation as a [more…]

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The Colombian Sojurn – Chapter 18

2nd January 2022 Blown Periphery 4301 Comments

The jungle east of the Andes, following a tributary of the Rio Caqueta. Day One. The first part of the journey was relatively easy, almost enjoyable. It was good going on the banks of the [more…]

Literature

Bird Brains?

2nd January 2022 Going Postal 4067 Comments

I’m not at all sure now how we got on to the subject of birds, but I was talking (I can hear her now, ‘To, dear, not with: the Americans get so hopelessly confused about [more…]

20th Century

Mystery Album , Part Sixteen

1st January 2022 Always Worth Saying 3014 Comments

Last time on Mystery Album I forgot to tell Puffins that the first Swedish monarch, King Gustav VI Adolph, to be interred at Kungliga Begravningsplatsen and away from Riddarholmen Church (apart from the wayward Christina) [more…]

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Christmas Crossword No. 201

1st January 2022 Going Postal 4138 Comments

First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a Christmas GP mug AND keyring. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Friday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 200 and a £20 [more…]

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