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Month: June 2023

20th Century

Modern Policing – A Copper’s View From 1950

12th June 2023 Going Postal 0

In 1950 John E Horwell, the former Chief Constable of Scotland Yard, set out his view of the state of modern policing; a view which will resonate with many 73 years later. This article first [more…]

20th Century

Slow Boats To Africa, Part Two

12th June 2023 Going Postal 0

In Part One we followed the journey of Irishman Charles Freeman, on the SS Medic down the west coast of Africa, from Liverpool to Cape Town in 1927. The ship was continuing on to Australia, [more…]

Fiction

The Diary of a REMF – Part One

11th June 2023 Blown Periphery 0

Thursday 5th February The son who had been born in a clinic in the Camargue while lizards crawled up the walls of the delivery room, looked down at the dying man in the bed. Cancer [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary – Week One-Hundred And Ninety-One

11th June 2023 Always Worth Saying 0

Monday Good bank holiday morning everyone, it’s a sunny today which is unusual for a bank holiday Monday. I’m looking forward to a nice lazy day today with no visitors to Number 10 and only [more…]

Cooking

Real Men Eat Real Quiche

11th June 2023 Tachybaptus 0

After the crowning broad bean horror of Charles the ill’s recent circus, it’s time to rehabilitate the quiche from the gastronomic hell into which it has been plunged by meddling chefs. The original quiche is [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, Kent

10th June 2023 Always Worth Saying 0

Canterbury In our family album, my father and grandparents visited Kent and Sussex for a holiday in 1948. This was a time of great change and transformation in those counties as they, and the rest [more…]

Biography

Trade Plating Around England, Part Nine

10th June 2023 Going Postal 0

This time, Grandad rights and the ultimate sin Brief recap, I spent two and a half years trade plating round England with the occasional foray into Scotland and Wales. Part one is here Part two [more…]

20th Century

G5E2 – Origins of Rock ‘n’ Roll – Early Days

9th June 2023 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

Welcome pop pickers.  This week is back to Rock ‘n’ Roll, the early days. This is the sort of music that makes you want to tap your feet, dance, and singalong. Thank you to Wiki, [more…]

Arts

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

9th June 2023 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 8th June 2023 The Panel: Lee Rowley (Conservative) Jonathan Ashworth (Labour) Ayesha Hazarika (Broadcaster) Lord Sumption (Former Supreme Court judge) Venue: King’s Lynn Jonathan Sumption, not his real name (Jonathan Philip Chadwick Sumption, [more…]

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