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Month: April 2022

Fiction

Pale Hands

18th April 2022 Going Postal 3077 Comments

1. As it was already turning to dusk, I was not expecting anyone to be at the door, but least of all was I expecting whom I saw there – so much so that the [more…]

Fiction

Samyaza Chapter One – April 2006

17th April 2022 Blown Periphery 2419 Comments

Going Home The Boeing 777 charter aircraft approached over the flooded fields west of Oxford. The young woman in seat 35D opened her eyes and turned off the borrowed iPlayer. She was not dressed like [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Thirty Nine

17th April 2022 Going Postal 3337 Comments

Monday Good morning people. Another rotten morning, cold and wet, not at all to my liking. I was down the garden and back so fast I surprised myself! Bozzie still hasn’t had a letter from [more…]

20th Century

Nostalgia Album, Part Eleven

16th April 2022 Always Worth Saying 2730 Comments

Last time on Nostalgia Album we visited the coast at Malta’s Ghajn Tuffieha. Pictured on the road nearby is my father’s cousin, Anne, at the front, with her parents Lil and Bob standing behind her, [more…]

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Archaeological Limericks

16th April 2022 Tachybaptus 3142 Comments

  Both English and, to a much greater extent, Scottish and Irish Gaelic are full of words spelt very differently from the way they are pronounced. These are ‘archaeological’ pronunciations reflecting the way the language [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story – Book Three, Chapter Fifteen

15th April 2022 Going Postal 4043 Comments

Jinnie was driven to Portsmouth where she was greeted like an old friend by the two Wrens. Most of the clothing she was wearing and had taken with her were her own, as was her [more…]

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The Making of Question Time Review

15th April 2022 Always Worth Saying 2062 Comments

In the un-read comments beneath Going-Postal’s weekly unread Question Time Review, Puffin’s ask how is it done? Or rather, why is it done? Even, why bother doing it? No matter. Perhaps answering the first unread [more…]

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Infrared photography

14th April 2022 Going Postal 3332 Comments

Photography has always been a hobby of mine and as I became more interested in it I joined a local camera club. This led me to be exposed to a whole new world of photography [more…]

20th Century

The Desert War – April 1942

14th April 2022 well_chuffed 3583 Comments

April 1942, another month where nothing much seemed to be happening in the desert, the same can’t be said of the sea and air campaigns. On the first of the month Churchill spoke with FDR [more…]

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