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Month: June 2022

Animals

Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Forty Nine

26th June 2022 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning folks, it started off sunny and warm this morning but as I dictate this it is clouding up. Bozzie is in fine fettle this morning, his spies tell him that Stoma is [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, Journey’s End

25th June 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

As every schoolboy knows, off the southern coast of the province of Cadiz the 3rd August 1704 ended briskly as Sir George Rooke’s fleet bombarded the Spanish isthmus of Gibraltar. The following morning, 1,900 English [more…]

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Crossnumber No. 224

25th June 2022 Going Postal 0

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 223 and a GP mug JR (Contact [more…]

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My Legends of Pop Music – Part Forty-Eight–Showaddywaddy

24th June 2022 Phil the Ex Test Manager 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…]

Fiction

Jinnie’s Story – Book Three, Chapter Twenty-Five

24th June 2022 Going Postal 0

It was the fourth early morning of following the truck when the girls saw it stop at a pole barrier across a gap in a chain-link fence. The barrier went up and the truck entered [more…]

Arts

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

24th June 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 23rd June 2022 The Panel: Rachel Maclean (Conservative) Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour) Anne Boden (Starling Bank) Ben Habib (Businessman) Mick Lynch (RMT) Venue: Stratford-upon-Avon Don’t mock our football team. Yes, three of us are [more…]

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The Desert War – June 1942

23rd June 2022 well_chuffed 0

80 years ago in June things started to look bleak in the desert, the Axis was on the advance and we were retreating. At sea the Royal Navy was just as busy and the convoys [more…]

Arts

The tale of John Barleycorn

23rd June 2022 rattuscatchus 0

Whilst listening to some 70’s era music – the time when music demanded competence – I came across a track by Traffic. I listened and remembered hearing it many years ago and that it was [more…]

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The Front Line Reporter

22nd June 2022 Going Postal 0

In this extract from his book* my uncle describes his time as a war correspondent with the Army’s official newspaper Union Jack in the latter stages of World War II. Jerry F. In World War [more…]

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