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Month: February 2022

Arts

Queen of the Hebrides – Personal Recollections

24th February 2022 Going Postal 0

17.30 Saturday 31st October 2015 For the second day running, we sit on the hard plastic chairs at Glenegedale Airport, staring despondently out of the windows into the grey Islay gloom, with only the occasional [more…]

20th Century

The Revolution in Zanzibar

24th February 2022 Zombie Ramboz 0

I had probably already heard of the Zanzibar Revolution, perhaps I had read that Freddy Mercury arrived in the United Kingdom as a result of his family having fled the violence that took place there [more…]

20th Century

Memories of My Early Childhood

23rd February 2022 Going Postal 0

I was born in 1950 and I have very happy memories of my early years. I was lucky I guess. We lived in a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Church End, Finchley with decent sized front, [more…]

America

“Some things never change like weather patterns, famines and wars, whilst others change rapidly through technology and human greed”

23rd February 2022 Going Postal 0

Claudio Grass (CG): Taken together, the moves by Russia and China, especially on the monetary front, with their plans of a gold-backed digital currency, appear to pose a direct challenge to the status quo and [more…]

Business

A View From The Greenhouse (“Brexit” Disastrophe)

22nd February 2022 Colin Cross 0

In Scotland and Lancashire they had (maybe they still do have) Wakes Week, a time when factories, mines and the like closed for 7 days to allow people to go to Blackpool, get pissed and [more…]

Health

A Hitchhikers Guide To Communication & Persuasion

22nd February 2022 Lugosi 0

Some NLP stuff Because of the mention of “Mass Formation Psychosis” linked to hypnosis I wrote a discussion article about it and this led to some Puffins interest in Neuro Linguistic Programming and its role [more…]

Cooking

Jack Daniels BBQ sauce – TGIF style

21st February 2022 well_chuffed 0

Anyone who has ever eaten at TGIF may have tasted their BBQ sauces. The smoky one is not good but the Jack Daniels one is to die for. When the wife was training as a [more…]

Business

Economic Idiocy Repeated, Part 2

21st February 2022 Emile Woolf 0

In Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking-Glass” Humpty Dumpty tells Alice: “When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” Humpty’s subjective approach to verbal meanings is of [more…]

America

“Some things never change like weather patterns, famines and wars, whilst others change rapidly through technology and human greed”

21st February 2022 Going Postal 0

As my friends and clients know very well, but also anyone who has read any of my writings before, I always held that understanding history and geopolitics is one of the most important elements of [more…]

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