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Month: August 2023

Arts

Jinnie’s Story, Book Five – Chapter Twenty-Seven

31st August 2023 Going Postal 2112 Comments

The Range Rover rushed up the M23 and onto the A23 into London with its blue lights embedded in the bumpers flashing but it was the two escorting police cars that impressed Penny, Nigel had [more…]

20th Century

Winston Churchill- What England Means To Me

31st August 2023 Going Postal 2872 Comments

This speech was made on April 24, 1933, six years before the second World War, seven years before the battle of Britain, when Winston Churchill was fifty-nine years old. There are a few things I [more…]

Cooking

Steak à la carte

30th August 2023 Going Postal 2604 Comments

I set before the Puffinati assembled a little piece of nourishment backed up with some history. A story as to how a piece of steak came to be one of the most famous dishes in [more…]

20th Century

The Fall of Mussolini – Operation Oak, Part One

30th August 2023 Blown Periphery 2498 Comments

In the summer of 1943, the terrible reality of total war was the closest wolf to the Italian  population’s sledge.  Mussolini’s grandiose plans for a new Roman Empire that would stretch across  Southern Europe and [more…]

Authoritarianism

A View From (Somewhere In The Area Of) The Greenhouse; We’re All “Far Right” Now….Innit?

29th August 2023 Colin Cross 2239 Comments

Life carries on apace and, as things start to slow down a little in the greenhouse I find myself having time to venture out into the countryside, along with my camera, and visit the odd [more…]

Human Interest

The Evil That Dare Not Speak Its Name

29th August 2023 NeverUpToTheJob 2323 Comments

Deeply buried in the LGBTQ+ acronym is the letter ‘P’. So deeply buried is it, that it doesn’t actually appear to be there. But believe me, it is. That invisible ‘P’ stands for ‘Paedophile’, and [more…]

Christianity

“The Powers That Be” And Other Sayings From The Bible

27th August 2023 Going Postal 6158 Comments

After reading DJM’s fascinating article on words and phrases in the English language that originate from the Bard of Avon it set me wondering on the phrases and sayings we use that have their origin [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary – Week Two Hundred

27th August 2023 Going Postal 2265 Comments

Monday Good morning everyone, and welcome to my 200th diary entry. Wow, 200 editions, that means I have been writing this diary for over four years (if you count all those holidays my scribe goes [more…]

19th Century

Mount Snowdon

26th August 2023 Always Worth Saying 1955 Comments

Mount Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa in Welsh) is the highest mountain in Wales, standing at an elevation of 3,560ft above sea level. As such, it holds the title as the highest point in the British Isles [more…]

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