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Month: July 2022

Literature

Maintaining the status quo – the condemnation of the conspirational

19th July 2022 Rookwood 4256 Comments

Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe. Euripdes OK, I admit it. I am a conspiracy theorist. Or more accurately, a conspiracy realist. The synonyms for theorist include logician, [more…]

Conservatives

The Milk Snatcher

18th July 2022 well_chuffed 3228 Comments

Many puffins seem to be big fans of Margaret Thatcher. I have to agree that she was the best Prime Minister since WW2 and was very patriotic. So good was she that all subsequent ones [more…]

America

Kali Yuga

18th July 2022 Emile Woolf 4642 Comments

The level of economic understanding has never been lower My last essay focused on the sheer insanity of current pseudo-Conservative policies. I sent it out on the “Going-Postal” blog platform, and was rewarded with some [more…]

Fiction

Samfyaza Chapter 14, Camp Mitkan – September 2006

17th July 2022 Blown Periphery 3351 Comments

It was Rosh Hashana Eve and once again, Afarin and Heyfa were alone in their apartments, as everybody else had gone home for the Jewish New Year. They had promised each other a meal out [more…]

Arts

A Postcard From a Mediterranean Cruise – Part 1

17th July 2022 Going Postal 3739 Comments

I so enjoyed my Christmas fly cruise to the Caribbean that a week or so after coming home I made my mind up to book one for Christmas 22/23. I like the Englishness of a [more…]

20th Century

Nostalgia Album, A New Posting

16th July 2022 Always Worth Saying 2737 Comments

Fair Winds And a Following Sea This time on Nostalgia Album we are enjoying a new posting to a place where the White Ensign no longer flies. If in last week’s unread comments below the [more…]

Hobbies

Crossword No. 227

16th July 2022 Going Postal 3418 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 226 and a GP mug CG (Contact [more…]

20th Century

My Legends of Pop Music – Part Fifty-One – The Rat Pack

15th July 2022 Phil the Ex Test Manager 3021 Comments

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-Eight

15th July 2022 Going Postal 2013 Comments

The Mercedes stopped at the barrier to the airport and unloaded Jinnie and Penny. Simone hugged them both and said her goodbyes. Jinnie kissed little Juliette and said she would see her soon. Juliette said, [more…]

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    10th July 2022 3004 Comments
    Afarin lay back on the bed, an emptiness in her stomach and her nerves taught with worry. This was the underconfident, querulous Afarin, a far cry from her operational, professional persona. He had been busy [more...]
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