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Month: May 2022

Arts

A View From The Greenhouse; (Pain and Loss)

31st May 2022 Colin Cross 0

Welcome dear readers; before we get started, a warning. Those of you that aren’t interested in the maudlin, or the philosophy of loss, or the pain which accompanies it, look away now, this isn’t going [more…]

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A Family At War, Part Two

31st May 2022 Going Postal 0

In memory of those who have crossed the bar Fearless of storm or foe, Guarding the traffic of the east and west, Giving with hearts heroic of their best, The brave mine-sweepers go. Horace Rumsam [more…]

Hobbies

A short walk in the Cymraeg Kush, Part One

30th May 2022 Going Postal 0

Foreword by Warble on Augh Yes, I have read it, re-read it and revisited more times than I probably should have. I refer of course to that wonderful piece of literature “A short walk in [more…]

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A Family At War, Part One

30th May 2022 Going Postal 0

In memory of those who have crossed the bar Fearless of storm or foe, Guarding the traffic of the east and west, Giving with hearts heroic of their best, The brave mine-sweepers go. Horace Rumsam [more…]

Fiction

Samyaze Chapter 7 Camp Mitkan Adam, Training Areas – June 2006

29th May 2022 Blown Periphery 0

From that day on it became like Groundhog Day to Afarin. Kit inspection from Staff Sergeant Hoffman, who was now at the shouty, throwing things about phase. The morning before he had taken Umbridge to [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Forty Five

29th May 2022 Going Postal 0

Monday Morning peeps. A little grey but warm this morning, the woman on the TV says it is going to be sunny and quite warm here in London this morning. Bozzie is off to Northern [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, Part Sixteen

28th May 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Last time on Nostalgia Album, my father and his parents were heading south in their Ford 8 in the general direction of Madrid. The year is 1952 and Franco’s rural Spain must have appeared un-developed [more…]

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Hobbies

Crossword No. 220

28th May 2022 Going Postal 0

First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a 1 oz silver Britannia. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Friday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 219 and a GP mug [more…]

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My Legends of Pop Music–Part Forty-Five – Queen

27th May 2022 Philthetestmanager 0

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…]

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