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Month: May 2025

20th Century

The Eurovision Song Contest 2025 – The Grand Final

17th May 2025 Going Postal 0

Don your taffeta and sequinned best, pull on your bondage trousers, lube up your leather chaps and please be welcome to the annual festival of flounce and flamboyance that we all know and love as [more…]

Fiction

The Past is Present, Chapter Six

17th May 2025 Going Postal 0

Breakfast the next morning was in the hotel dining room. Jane was looking better, she sat at a table with Alison. Dave, Sally and the guard from outside the door sat at the next table. [more…]

Arts

Fabulously Flamboyant Friday: The 2025 Eurovision Song Contest Preview

16th May 2025 Going Postal 0

Welcome back my friends, to the flamboyance that never ends, as Fabulously Flamboyant Friday glides effortlessly across the neatly trimmed crease to deliver yet another groin-polished googly from the gasworks end of musical magnificence. Let [more…]

Arts

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

16th May 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 15th May 2025 The Panel: Peter Kyle (Labour) Nigel Huddleston (Conservative) Alex Depledge (Tech entrepreneur) Sonia Sodha (Columnist and broadcaster) Venue: Aldershot Controversy broke out after last week’s edition of Question Time. During [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story, Book Eight – Chapter Eleven

15th May 2025 Going Postal 0

Jinnie stepped off the Virgin flight to Montreal, passed through immigration, and headed for the WestJet internal connection to Ottawa. Travel had told Jinnie that Virgin had just launched a new service to Montreal and [more…]

Politics

The 50 rules of Uniparty membership

15th May 2025 Rookwood 0

Rule #1 You do not talk about the Uniparty * Rule #2 You do not talk about the Uniparty * Rule #3 Someone yells “Stop,” goes limp, or taps out, the debate is over. Any [more…]

20th Century

Desert Mystery: Cartoons on a wall

14th May 2025 Going Postal 0

Recently, I acquired a set of wartime photographs sourced from a militaria dealer in Munich. The photographs are of cartoons hand-drawn across the whitewashed walls of a room. The style is typical of that seen [more…]

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Book Review: The Wrong Hands by Mark Billingham

14th May 2025 Going Postal 0

Following on from the first book in the series (The Last Dance), The Wrong Hands picks up the story of Detective Sergeant Declan Miller, the flippant and somewhat unorthodox individual. The story kicks off with [more…]

20th Century

A View From (Brougham Hall) Quite Near The Greenhouse; Was It All Worth It?

13th May 2025 Colin Cross 0

I don’t doubt that my long suffering reader will have had a similar conversation to the one I had some days ago with Mrs. C. It went something like this; “Er, Colin, are there any [more…]

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