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Month: September 2024

20th Century

Postcard From Birmingham, Part Five

21st September 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

There are two schools of thought, volunteer for everything, never volunteer for anything. I knew a chap sent to the South Atlantic. At Mount Pleasant airfield in what the Guinness Book of Records describes as [more…]

Fiction

Those Who Play With Fire, Chapter Ten

21st September 2024 Going Postal 0

Sally had left to play tennis by the time Dave had dressed and eaten breakfast. He sat in the kitchen thinking about the revelations from the previous evening. On Wednesday, he would have to give [more…]

Arts

Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays: Ivory Cutlery’s Day Off Pt. 2

20th September 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, dear reader, Ivory Cutlery (currently numb of buttock, sore [more…]

Arts

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

20th September 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 19th September 2024 The Panel: Lucy Powell (Labour) Graham Stewart (Conservative) Tim Farron (LibDem) Mariana Mazzucato (Economist) Jill Kirby (Journalist) Venue: Ashton-Under-Lyne The programme began with Fiona Bruce saying a very strange thing. [more…]

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Fiction

Jinnie’s Story, Book Seven – Chapter Thirteen

19th September 2024 Going Postal 0

Jinnie headed round the M25 towards the M23 to Crawley and was listening to the radio. There was a discussion going on about the German/Russian dispute and how it was getting worse. The presenter was [more…]

History

The Birth of the Angry Young Man

19th September 2024 Going Postal 0

In 1956 the play Look Back in Anger was first staged in Britain. Written by John Osborne, it was the story of Jimmy Porter – who came to symbolise a new force in postwar Britain – the [more…]

History

Postcard from Saint Nicholas

18th September 2024 Going Postal 0

Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat, Keir Starmer is stealing pennies from the old man’s hat, and we continue our journey around the Isles of Scilly.  Tresco was once called St Nicholas, or [more…]

21st Century

Debt and the Gen Z protests

18th September 2024 Going Postal 0

31 August, 2024 A generation after the 1980s debt crisis triggered the rebirth of democracy on the continent, will Kenya’s youthful idealists spark a pan-African revolt?   The protests in Kenya mark a turning point [more…]

Culture

A View From The Greenhouse; Edizeone Apulia (Prima Parte)

17th September 2024 Colin Cross 0

And so to Italy, but not before making sure the Buildings and Maintenance team had been fully drilled in the routines required to ensure I didn’t return to any kind of disaster. I needn’t have [more…]

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