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Month: May 2025

Animals

Larry’s diary, Week Two Hundred And Seventy Nine

4th May 2025 Going Postal 2444 Comments

Monday Good morning on this Bank Holiday Monday. It is nice and quiet here in Number Ten with only a small crew on. The girl who was on feeding duty this morning was not very [more…]

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An Appreciation Of The Papacy of Francis I

3rd May 2025 Always Worth Saying 2277 Comments

Might every age get the Pope it deserves? If so, then what of the Age of Francis I? Jorge Mario Bergoglio, once Archbishop of Buenos Aires and the latest Bishop of Rome, died on Easter [more…]

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The Past is Present, Chapter Four

3rd May 2025 Going Postal 2539 Comments

The Range Rover was ready for them, Dave put the holdall with the weapons in the boot, Sally’s heart was thumping. They set off driving through the Saturday night traffic, as they drove east, the [more…]

Arts

Fabulously Flamboyant Friday: When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth Pt. 1

2nd May 2025 Going Postal 2822 Comments

Greeting, pop pickers, and please be welcome to this week’s fabulously flamboyant Friday. Ah, the 1970s… A splendid decade. But they weren’t just about Ford Cortinas, Vesta curries, platform shoes, ludicrous flares, questionable facial hair, [more…]

20th Century

Always Worth Saying’s Railway Review

2nd May 2025 Always Worth Saying 3369 Comments

Apologies for last week’s Railway Review, which was far too populist. An article on a mineral railway in Northern Brazil is exactly the type of thing you might read about in a 1960s edition of [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story, Book Eight – Chapter Nine

1st May 2025 Going Postal 2635 Comments

The last full day of the cruise was a sea day as the ship chugged the 150 miles from Martinique to Barbados very slowly. The twins spent the morning by the pool with everyone else, [more…]

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On Greenlaning

1st May 2025 Going Postal 2442 Comments

Greenlaning, the driving of motorised vehicles on the approximately 6,000 miles of tracks, paths and byways with legal rights of way in England & Wales, can be understandably controversial. This article will not explore the [more…]

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