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Month: April 2023

Biography

Trade Plating Around England, Part Four

22nd April 2023 Going Postal 0

Driving the minibus, a bit of racial tension and a near punch up. Brief recap, I spent two and a half years trade plating round England with the occasional foray into Scotland and Wales. Part [more…]

Arts

Classic Album Review: Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill

21st April 2023 Going Postal 0

This week there will be no messing around with any Mickey Mouse, common-or-garden, Diamond certified albums – no siree. This weeks album is a proper whopper. With 33 million copies sold, lavish helpings of adolescent [more…]

Arts

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

21st April 2023 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 20th April 2023 The Panel: Jeremy Quin (Conservative) Wes Streeting (Labour) Carla Denyer (Green) Lord Sentamu (Christian Aid) Merryn Somerset Webb (Finance Journalist) Venue: York John Sentamu (not his real name, The Right [more…]

Fiction

Jinnie’s Story – Book Five, Chapter Eight

20th April 2023 Going Postal 0

Ro rang Jinnie and said she hoped she didn’t mind but she had suggested to Nigel that he and Jed should move into what had been Aimee’s office as it was much more suitable for [more…]

Culture

Postcard From Marrakech

20th April 2023 Going Postal 0

Introduction For my 50th birthday, as I didn’t have my children all available, I decided to experience Marrakech. A lot of people recommended it, so decided it was a good time of year to visit [more…]

Book Review

Furst amongst equals

19th April 2023 Going Postal 0

There are spy novels…. & novels about spies. Fleming, Deighton & Le Carre definitely wrote the former (& in doing so laid bare their inner classist prejudices) , whilst Ambler, Greene, & Conrad constructed far [more…]

History

African Regime Gone Bad, The Players

19th April 2023 Going Postal 0

The Banyarwanda, the Kinyarwanda-speaking community, constituted one of Central Africa’s biggest ethnic groups, its footprint stretching from eastern Zaire to western Tanzania and up to western Uganda. At its core sat the tiny, mountainous former [more…]

History

Elementary, my dear Watson – O2 Oxygen

18th April 2023 SharpieType301 0

By now, you should be getting quite used to meandering through the mesmerising memoirs of the elements. So far,  we’ve covered Hydrogen, Carbon, Mercury, and Bromine. In doing so, we’ve also covered a good chunk [more…]

Gardening

Sienna Wood House

18th April 2023 Going Postal 0

Before I retired my boss had a beautiful 4-bedroom detached house on a private estate on the edge of Dorking. However, both her and her husband were gardeners, and their pristine garden was just too [more…]

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