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Month: October 2022

20th Century

My Leg Ends of Pop Music – Part Four – Red Hot Chili Peppers

14th October 2022 Phil the Ex Test Manager 2678 Comments

After 60 proper legends of pop (OK, you may have thought that some were a bit iffy), it is now time for my Top 20 Leg Ends of pop.  These are those groups or artists [more…]

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Coronavirus – the first thousand days

14th October 2022 Going Postal 2695 Comments

The earliest stats on the coronavirus that I can find  – numbers of cases and deaths – were recorded by John Hopkins university on 19th January 2020, with 204 cases and 3 deaths.  There are [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

14th October 2022 Always Worth Saying 2303 Comments

Question Time 13th October 2022 The Panel: Douglas Ross (Conservative) Anas Sarwar (Labour) John Swinney (SNP) Isabel Hardman (The Spectator) Stuart Murdoch (Musician) Venue: Musselburgh The first question was grunted by a local and seemed [more…]

20th Century

Inquest on Aachen

13th October 2022 Going Postal 2883 Comments

On 27 October, 1944 my uncle John Alldridge reported from Aaachen for the Manchester Evening News. Six days previously, Aachen had become the first German city to be captured by the Western Allies. – Jerry [more…]

Democracy

OTF (Own Two Feet) Party, Part Ten

13th October 2022 Going Postal 3247 Comments

Introduction This article is a self-confessed flight of fancy and almost certainly impossible, but maybe can be a springboard to spark other ideas. We already have intellectual property rights for music etc etc. I propose [more…]

17th Century

A Postcard from the IFG Part Two

12th October 2022 SharpieType301 2822 Comments

International Festival of Glass, Stourbridge, August 2022 In Part One, I just about managed to shoehorn two days of the fantastic Festival. Before I carry on telling you about the rest, a quick gallop though [more…]

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Evil beyond measure

12th October 2022 Rookwood 3341 Comments

Mrs R and I have a mutual friend of many years who knows both of us extremely well. For the sake of brevity, let us call her “A”. This came home when we were having [more…]

Animals

The Day I Met Trixie

11th October 2022 Going Postal 2915 Comments

Somewhere a cockerel starts crowing. It is 3 am and barely an hour since the passing of the last “booming bass” tricycle. Not to be outdone a dog starts barking, then another and another and [more…]

Labour

Labour’s greatest achievement

11th October 2022 well_chuffed 3216 Comments

These days Labour claims the minimum wage as its greatest achievement. Prior to this they claimed starting the NHS was up there at the pinnacle and some still do. The minimum wage is the reason [more…]

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