March 2022 – Page 4 – Going Postal

Crossword No. 212

19th March 2022 Going Postal 2912 Comments

First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a GP mug. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Friday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 211 and a GP mug Hooker (Contact [more…]

My Legends of Pop Music – Part Thirty-Six – Otis Redding

18th March 2022 Phil the Ex Test Manager 2661 Comments

If get this right, there will be many cover versions by future bands. I shall try and link live versions if they exist from the tellybox or a film, the sound quality may not be [more…]

Jinnie’s Story – Book Three, Chapter Eleven

18th March 2022 Going Postal 2164 Comments

When it came time to leave for Heathrow Jinnie said Goodbye to Larry and told him that she would be back in a few days and that he would be OK as Paolo and Penny [more…]

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

18th March 2022 Always Worth Saying 1954 Comments

Question Time 17th March 2022 The Panel: Suella Braverman (Conservative) Wes Streeting (Labour) Max Hastings (Historian) Rev Richard Coles (Broadcaster) Lesia Vasylenko (Ukrainian MP) Venue: Kettering Max Hugh McDonald Hastings was educated privately at Charterhouse [more…]

What did you do in the war grandad?

17th March 2022 Going Postal 3541 Comments

This is the brief story of my grandad and his part in the war. Here is a picture of George with who we think is his grandmother in the early 1900s. George Gilfoyle was born [more…]

Imperial Measures

17th March 2022 Going Postal 3763 Comments

I am one of those fortunate people who understand both metric and imperial measurements. I am old enough to have had my early education purely in imperial but as an apprentice my college courses employed [more…]

Gizza job. I could do that

16th March 2022 Going Postal 3081 Comments

As regular non-readers of the comments will know, I spent a large part of 2020 (and some of 2019) looking for a job. Looking back at my spreadsheet I made approaching 60 applications, albeit quite [more…]

The Making of a Mercenary

16th March 2022 DH 3780 Comments

This was, thought Merritt, absolutely bloody typical of Larkin. The place was a dizzying carousel of gigantic, deafening televisions blaring out conflicting commentaries on horse racing and football, the bleeping and blinking of garish slot [more…]

The Joy of Dogs

15th March 2022 Going Postal 2720 Comments

!! Warning: this article contains images of a “shameless clickbait” nature !! According to Wikipedia, “The Dog (Canis Familiaris) is a domesticated descendant of the wolf which is characterized by an upturning tail. It derived [more…]