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Month: May 2022

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Crossword No. 218

7th May 2022 Going Postal 2640 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 217 and a GP mug In like [more…]

20th Century

My Legends of Pop Music–Part Forty Two–Thin Lizzy

6th May 2022 Phil the Ex Test Manager 3222 Comments

My Legends of Pop Music – Part Forty-Two – Thin Lizzy If get this right, there will be many cover versions by future bands. I shall try and link live versions if they exist from [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story – Book Three, Chapter Eighteen

6th May 2022 Going Postal 2059 Comments

Jinnie called back to Penny, “I’ve been called in as well. Can you use the downstairs shower room?” Years ago, when the girls were younger, Mr Walsh had realised that he would soon be living [more…]

Arts

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

6th May 2022 Always Worth Saying 1815 Comments

Question Time 5th May 2022 The Panel: Damian Green (Conservative) Louise Haigh (Labour) Charlotte Ivers (Journalist) Jack Thorne (Writer) Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones (Businessman) Venue: Walsall Tonight’s first question referenced the cost of living crisis. The questioner [more…]

20th Century

The War Correspondent, Part One

5th May 2022 Going Postal 3205 Comments

Another chapter from “Special Assignment” by my uncle John Alldridge (published in 1960 and now long out of print) When the first great war correspondent, William Howard Russell, went out to the Crimea for the [more…]

Arts

The Dark Side of the Moon, by John Harris

5th May 2022 Going Postal 3110 Comments

This is a book which shouldn’t work – yet it kind of does. An in-depth look at one particular album from one particular band would, on the face of it, seem too niche to have [more…]

Fiction

Pale Hands 3

4th May 2022 Going Postal 2795 Comments

9.  The continued ringing of the telephone brought us both abruptly out of the past and Cambridge. ‘Your Father!’ I exclaimed. ‘My Mother.’ She whispered. ‘Richard Conyngham here: we’re at Waterloo and due to arrive [more…]

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Gold: A use case for the modern era, Part One

4th May 2022 Going Postal 3278 Comments

For decades, physical gold investors have had to contend with superficial, naive and wholly ahistorical “arguments” from the mainstream financial press, from economists and experts of all stripes, claiming that gold is nothing but a [more…]

Culture

A View From The Greenhouse; Bath, A Chance Encounter, Long “Covid”

3rd May 2022 Colin Cross 3165 Comments

It’s been a month now since I last posted from the greenhouse, although, somewhat thankfully, it hasn’t been a month since I visited it. With the arrival of spring we see ewes and lambs arriving [more…]

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