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Month: May 2024

Arts

Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays: Ivory Cutlery’s Day Off

17th May 2024 Going Postal 0

Greetings pop pickers and please be welcome to tonight’s Fabulously Flamboyant Friday and another of our fortnightly mastications upon the marshmallowy pillows of musical magnificence. Tonight, as we mark this year’s International Day Against Homophobia, [more…]

Arts

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

17th May 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 16th May 2024 The Panel: Meghan Gallagher (Conservative) Anas Sarwar (Labour) Stephen Flynn (SNP) Alex Salmond (Alba) Iain Dale (Broadcaster) Venue: Aberdeen Meghan Gallacher is currently Deputy Leader of the Scottish Conservatives and [more…]

Fiction

Jinnie’s Story- Book Six, Chapter Thirty

16th May 2024 Going Postal 0

The Trattoria Trevi board voted unanimously to proceed with the test Sybaritic accepting that it was a concept worth trying. Alberto pointed out that the income they were generating from their current lines meant that [more…]

Literature

Britain’s little known wars

16th May 2024 Going Postal 0

There are, amongst us, many little old chaps who have a tale to tell – I am one such but am not at all remarkable. It would be interesting to me for others to open [more…]

20th Century

Desert Mysteries, Part One

15th May 2024 Going Postal 0

Some years ago, for only a few pounds, I purchased from a local antiques fair a June 1939 edition of “Blackwood’s Magazine”, this magazine and miscellany (pictured) ran from 1817 to 1980. I bought it [more…]

Culture

OTF Party: What Makes/Made Us Quintessentially English/British?

15th May 2024 Going Postal 0

“Being British is all about driving a German car to an Irish theme pub to drink Belgian beer then going home buying an Indian takeaway to sit on a Swedish sofa in front of a [more…]

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A View From They/Them Greenhouse; We’re All Non-Binary Now…..innit?

14th May 2024 Colin Cross 0

Things are moving on apace. The recent spell of decent weather’s seen a growth spurt right across the board, so much so that I have most of the tomatoes in the ground and there’s been [more…]

20th Century

In The Steps of The First Army, Part Seven

14th May 2024 Going Postal 0

“In his seventh and final article JOHN ALLDRIDGE writes of Tunis and the triumphant end of a campaign.” – Manchester Evening News, November 23 1949 Tunis, Monday I thought I saw a ghost in Tunis [more…]

Literature

How, by not singing in Chapel, Nerissa came to an Untimely End

13th May 2024 Going Postal 0

I never did quite discover Miss Pronter’s exact connection with a once-well-known – not to say notorious – Girls’ Boarding School in Berkshire, but she claimed that the then-Chaplain, having delivered this, left the script [more…]

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