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Month: April 2023

History

African Regime – Ugandan Wheels Come Loose

26th April 2023 Going Postal 0

Obote depended on Idi Amin to enforce his policies, but knew he couldn’t trust his protégé. The suspicion was mutual. Hearing he was about to be arrested for the murder of an Obote ally, Amin [more…]

Diary

A View From The Greenhouse; The Un-flushable Turd

25th April 2023 Colin Cross 0

Life carries on apace and although the weather still refuses to settle down, there’s always time in my horrendously busy schedule to take a walk, often with my camera and occasionally with a group of [more…]

20th Century

How Is The Health Service Working?

25th April 2023 Going Postal 0

In September 1948, a few weeks after its launch, John Alldridge set out to answer this question – His findings make very interesting reading 75 years later – Jerry F On Monday, July 5, nearly [more…]

America

Let’s All Eat Maggots

24th April 2023 Going Postal 0

“We now eat in two weeks the amount of sugar our ancestors of 200 years ago ate in a whole year”  John Yudkin 1963 All WW2 Far East Prisoners of War were heroes, but in [more…]

Business

A bank is a bank is a bank

24th April 2023 Going Postal 0

It might sound like an old-fashioned notion, the sort of thing that one reads about in period novels and romantically sighs “oh, the good old days”. It might sound like old timely advice, perhaps of [more…]

20th Century

This Is My England, Part Nine

23rd April 2023 Going Postal 0

From the tip of Land’s End on a fine spring morning you may look down on a sea that can be as calm and clear as a mill pond. From that height the Atlantic is [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary – Week One Hundred And Eighty-Four

23rd April 2023 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning readers and welcome to another exciting week in No 10. Well, it’s back to more rain this morning and there are puddles on the garden path and the grass is soggy, typical [more…]

Fiction

The Parrot Lady II

23rd April 2023 Going Postal 0

Her breakfast was spoiled by the knowledge that, at some point, she would have to tell the waif about the ‘team’s’ visit: not only how to break the news, but when. She decided that it [more…]

20th Century

Menton, Princess Victoria and a Band

22nd April 2023 Always Worth Saying 0

Menton Menton is a charming coastal town located on the French Riviera, only six miles from Monaco and within sight of the Tête de Chien cliffs which overlook the over-developed principality we called upon last [more…]

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