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Month: September 2024

19th Century

Postcard From Birmingham, Part Three

7th September 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Chamberlain Square Having checked out the Council House and Town Hall during our day trip to Birmingham, myself and Mrs AWS nip around the back and into Chamberlain Square, the centrepiece of which is the [more…]

Fiction

Those Who Play With Fire, Chapter Eight

7th September 2024 Going Postal 0

Standing on the pavement, he made a phone call as he walked to the tube station. At St. Pancras, before boarding, he bought a coffee and sandwiches, it was the stopping train, settling into his [more…]

Arts

Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – A Game For All The Family

6th September 2024 Going Postal 0

Welcome back my friends, to the flamboyance that never ends, as Fabulously Flamboyant Friday proudly delivers yet another light-loafered, groin-polished googly from the gasworks end of musical magnificence. Tonight’s missive, I’m sure you be relieved [more…]

20th Century

Scandal After Midnight

6th September 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Busy times for Mrs Francis Killen. The adverts had been placed. The VIPs were on their way. The early weeks of 1960 saw her guests begin to converge on Merseyside. If her curly-wired bakelite GPO [more…]

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Fiction

Jinnie’s Story, Book Seven – Chapter Eleven

5th September 2024 Going Postal 0

After the meal in the Sybaritic the family and Sir Nigel gathered in Jinnie’s living room for an impromptu celebration where they were eventually joined by Paolo, Penny and Dan. Jinnie had warned Paolo they [more…]

Economics

A Primer on Understanding Austrian Monetary Theory

5th September 2024 Patrick Barron 0

The above title would make one believe that what follows will be very long and very difficult to learn, but it is not. In this short article I will explain the relationship among four metrics: [more…]

20th Century

Desert Diorama, Part Three

4th September 2024 Going Postal 0

Some model kits come with suitable figures to assemble but recently I have taken to buying figure kits made via rapid prototyping techniques by new manufacturers in China. The sculpting of these and also ICM [more…]

21st Century

Ruto the Flying Mantis Has Been Grounded

4th September 2024 Going Postal 0

Ruto’s wings have been clipped and we are watching over him carefully, monitoring all his movements. Until he surrenders. August, 2024   When we were children, my friends and I loved hanging out every evening [more…]

Authoritarianism

A View From Near The Greenhouse; A New Dawn…..Innit?

3rd September 2024 Colin Cross 0

I thought I was under no illusion when I marked my “X” on my ballot paper back in July. Due to boundary changes I’ve ended up living in one of the safest constituencies in the [more…]

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