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Month: May 2025

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Jinnie’s Story, Book Eight – Chapter Twelve

22nd May 2025 Going Postal 0

Today Jinnie was finally going to go with George to shoot on the Police range at Hendon. It had taken a while to organise. This was mainly because the Police had taken ages to establish [more…]

21st Century

Warfare – Snake style

22nd May 2025 Rookwood 0

Puffins that have their ears to the ground (or is it ears to the clouds?) will no doubt be aware of the excellent series of lectures by David Betz which very convincingly argues that we [more…]

Animals

The Shiba Inu, as a dog

21st May 2025 Going Postal 0

This little Japanese breed is all over the internet with its cute face and happy vibes. Think “doge”…that dog. I’ve owned them before they were cool, and still own two, and know of another 5 [more…]

20th Century

Beautiful Kashmir

21st May 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

Never travel to a country that’s a funny colour on the map, or worse still, described by different coloured diagonal lines. Disputed territory is not only the cartographer’s nightmare, but also that of the traveller.
 [more…]

Engineering

Home Backup Systems, Part One

20th May 2025 Swiss Bob 0

When I bought my first custom PC back in 1999, a Gateway machine with dual Pentiums (Only PC I ever had which actually did two things at once), one of the things missing living in [more…]

20th Century

Book Review: Concorde by Mike Bannister

19th May 2025 Going Postal 0

Introduction In response to Swiss Bob’s lack of articles, I have dashed this out, instead of a fuller version I had planned.  In short, I heartily recommend Mike Bannister’s book ‘Concorde’, which I listened to [more…]

America

Isolating Iran

19th May 2025 well_chuffed 0

The Donald’s latest excursion in the Middle East has been met with the usual carping and disdain from the legacy media. I will be the first to concede he has been over the top with [more…]

Literature

An Old Man’s Musings Part Twenty-Eight

18th May 2025 Going Postal 0

Took the car to the garage this morning. There is a Gregg’s restaurant (first one I have seen) nearby so had an indulgent breakfast of sausage roll and a bacon roll and coffee. I drink [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Eighty-One

18th May 2025 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning, happy readers, from a sunny but chilly early morning London, where I am happy to see Liebore has learnt nothing from last week’s election, and its representatives on the Sunday morning political [more…]

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