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Month: October 2024

Authoritarianism

A View From (The Shed By) The Greenhouse; Scales Of Justice….Innit?

22nd October 2024 Colin Cross 2211 Comments

It’s often quite surprising when you find something that you didn’t know was lost, as happened recently with this set of scales. I didn’t “rediscover” them myself, the buildings and maintenance department did, but we’re [more…]

19th Century

A Voyage to India, 1888

22nd October 2024 Going Postal 2244 Comments

In October, 1888, Miss Kate Pettitt sailed from Liverpool to Bombay in the steamship Eden Hall.She was going to India as a governess with an English family from Manchester. The voyage took five weeks, and [more…]

Arts

Film Review : The Leopard

21st October 2024 Going Postal 2035 Comments

Luchino Visconti’s masterpiece is his 1963 historical epic The Leopard (Il Gattopardo, which – pendant alert – actually refers to a smaller spotted wild cat, the serval – the heraldic animal of the Princes of [more…]

Communism

The politics of spite

21st October 2024 well_chuffed 2493 Comments

In politics the left has a long history of hatred which engenders spite and greed which leads to envy. No government before the Starmer administration has had these values in such a malevolent way. They [more…]

Hobbies

The Wolds, Part Two

20th October 2024 Joe Slater 1907 Comments

It takes a week to cycle from Penzance to Berwick. It took me 40 years. Because on the way, I wanted to include every town in England, in what amounted to some two years of [more…]

Hobbies

Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred and Fifty-Four

20th October 2024 Going Postal 2399 Comments

Monday Good morning from your favourite cat reporter and chief mouser. Well, it rained again yesterday, just as forecast, but it was a ‘Gray’ day for another reason here at No. 10. Don’t believe what [more…]

20th Century

Hasn’t Time Flown?

19th October 2024 Always Worth Saying 1897 Comments

The conversation ended as it often does with a young colleague reminding me it’s because I’m old. Perhaps because I really am old, I can’t remember the topic. Maybe the latest delivery of dog food [more…]

Fiction

Those Who Play With Fire, Chapter Fourteen

19th October 2024 Going Postal 2135 Comments

At 19.25 they were sitting in the restaurant, as they entered Dave had asked for a quiet table. They were shown to one away from anyone else. He explained that there may be a third [more…]

Arts

Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – Who? What? Meh… Needs More Cowbell – Part 2

18th October 2024 Going Postal 2370 Comments

Welcome back my friends to the flamboyance that never ends, as Fabulously Flamboyant Friday sashays up to the crease to deliver yet another light-loafered, lubed-up googly from the gasworks-end of musical magnificence. Please be welcome [more…]

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