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Month: February 2025

Arts

Briefs Encounter – A reappraisal

10th February 2025 Going Postal 0

After a chance meeting on a train platform, a married doctor (Trevor Howard) and a suburban housewife (Celia Johnson) enter into a muted but passionate, and ultimately doomed, love affair. With its evocatively fog-enshrouded setting, [more…]

America

Auditors who don’t audit

10th February 2025 well_chuffed 0

As our minds become increasingly boggled at the corruption that seems to be so rife in the US Federal government let us cast our minds back to the audit functions that were in place before [more…]

Literature

An Old Man’s Musings, Part Sixteen

9th February 2025 Going Postal 0

Thank you fellow Puffins for many a chortle lately. There have been some splendiferous insults directed at various members of our ‘soi-disant ‘ elite, really cheers me up. All very inventive!! Whenever I think of [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Sixty-Seven

9th February 2025 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning, my Puffin friends. It was lovely and sunny when I woke up this morning, quite different to the rain and wind that were forecast. So, I hurried off downstairs and out into [more…]

Business

Sky Lies’ Demise

8th February 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

If you’re driving along the Great West Road through the London suburb of Osterley and see a dark cloud moving towards some outsized sheds, it may well be one of those gathering above the Sky [more…]

Fiction

A Price Too High, Chapter Nine

8th February 2025 Going Postal 0

He remembered nothing of the drive back, at 02:00 he woke up, he was hungry and thirsty, downstairs he ate cold chicken, drunk a pint of milk and looked for biscuits. He was soon back [more…]

Arts

Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – 1972 And All That

7th February 2025 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. I’ve recently been re-reading David Hepworth’s rather [more…]

Arts

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

7th February 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 6th February 2025 The Panel: Michael Shanks (Labour) Russel Findlay (Conservative) Kate Forbes (SNP) Lorna Slater (Green) Alex Massie (Journalist) Venue: Glasgow An outbreak of journalism on this week’s Question Time, or at [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story, Book Seven – Chapter Thirty-Two

6th February 2025 Going Postal 0

It was almost 8 a.m. when Jinnie dragged herself out of bed and left Paolo snoring gently. She made her way to the kitchen, desperate for a cup of coffee, and the first thing she [more…]

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