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Month: January 2023

20th Century

My Leg Ends of Pop Music – Part Nineteen – The Sex Pistols

27th January 2023 Phil the Ex Test Manager 5956 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…]

Arts

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

27th January 2023 Always Worth Saying 3229 Comments

Question Time 26th January 2023 The Panel: Jake Berry (Conservative) Tracy Brabin (Labour) Konstantin Kisin (Comentator) Alison Phillips (Daily Mirror) Venue: Scunthorpe What? Islington’s wunderkinder glitterati lebensborn don’t do Scunny on a Thursday night in [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story – Book Four, Chapter Twenty-Eight

26th January 2023 Going Postal 2470 Comments

Penny had a feeling of deja vu as climbed the stairs to the top of the terminal building. Her small party of four were first up on the roof and were to be followed by [more…]

20th Century

John Alldridge Meets Benny Hill

26th January 2023 Going Postal 2963 Comments

In October 1955, the Manchester Evening News sent my uncle to interview Benny Hill – Jerry F In some respects Mr. Benny Hill is the most irritating young man I have ever tried to interview. [more…]

20th Century

Letter from Stafford, Two

25th January 2023 Going Postal 2593 Comments

Wayne stopped by last night to tell me his interwebs had been cut off for being in arrears, and he wanted to use mine to download some documents from his barrister regarding child custody. He’s [more…]

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A Postcard From A Long Cruise, Part Two

25th January 2023 Going Postal 3045 Comments

December 1st. – Sailing day. Well, I think I have done everything. Case packed, car filled with petrol, papers cancelled, all the paperwork printed off and in an A4 envelope in my hand luggage, passport [more…]

20th Century

The Desert War – January 1943

24th January 2023 well_chuffed 2383 Comments

January 1943 saw the Casablanca Conference take place where FDR, Churchill, Charles de Gaulle and Henri Giraud (de Gaulle’s #2) would discuss the future of the war though the French were not really involved in [more…]

21st Century

Danger to Kenya’s Democracy

24th January 2023 Going Postal 2936 Comments

21 August 2022 Westerners, the outgoing president (Uhuru Kenyatta), and former opposition leader (Raila Odinga) wish to force a barmy government in which the pursuit of citizen wellbeing is halted in favour of pursuing undefined [more…]

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Chaos Theory – Population Growth exhibiting odd behaviour

23rd January 2023 Going Postal 2363 Comments

Think for a moment about a field, half filled with rabbits. How can we figure out how many fluffy bunnies we’ll have in a year’s time? Let’s start by agreeing to use a population of [more…]

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