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Month: April 2022

Fiction

Nanny Knows Best – Prologue

4th April 2022 Going Postal 2713 Comments

“And when we were children, staying at the archduke’s, My cousin’s, he took me out on a sled, And I was frightened.” The Client gurgled in satisfaction as Nanny eased him back into his Chair™ [more…]

Economics

Reality begins to dawn

4th April 2022 Emile Woolf 2143 Comments

Shortly before the Chancellor’s Spring Statement, BBC2’s “Newsnight” featured Kirsty Wark interviewing two economic experts, one Conservative, one Labour. She asked each of them to describe the measures they would recommend to the Chancellor, Rishi [more…]

Economics

How Bad Is Currency Debasement of the Dollar?

4th April 2022 Patrick Barron 1811 Comments

Well, currency debasement is pretty bad, as a few key statistics will reveal, but first some background. At the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944 the US agreed that it would redeem dollars for gold at [more…]

Fiction

The Colombian Sojourn – Chapter 31

3rd April 2022 Blown Periphery 2633 Comments

The Thames Valley and North Devon The endgame and the cat who walks on his own Edge felt the exhaustion wash over him in the claustrophobic interview room. The two, armed plod didn’t help and [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred And Thirty Seven

3rd April 2022 Going Postal 1998 Comments

Monday Morning all, another pleasant morning. This is my sort of weather dry and mild. I don’t like it cold, I don’t like it hot and I certainly don’t like it wet. In the future [more…]

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The great delusion

3rd April 2022 Rookwood 1695 Comments

It is abundantly clear, to those that have eyes to see at least, that the average man or woman has been shaken to their very core by the events that have occurred over the past [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, Part Nine

2nd April 2022 Always Worth Saying 2502 Comments

At the end of the Second World War, on my father’s side of the family, the generations had passed with both grandparents dying in their sleep at ripe old ages. By VJ Day the cast [more…]

Literature

Language today! Progress? No!

2nd April 2022 Fred Brownbill 1874 Comments

I do not know about you all but I am disgusted daily at what passes as normal and correct language. Swear words are the normal. I understand having been many years military and law enforcement [more…]

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Crossword No. 214

2nd April 2022 Going Postal 1677 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 213 and a GP mug Glazinova (Contact [more…]

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