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Month: July 2025

Literature

An Old Man’s Musings Part Thirty-Four

13th July 2025 Going Postal 0

I don’t contribute to the unread comments so these scribblings are sometimes a week or so behind events and thoughts shared on the blog. Phaasch, I feel your pain but also the joy. July 4th [more…]

Animals

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

13th July 2025 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning all, the cat is back! I have had a lovely couple of weeks off and the weather has been pretty good. I have spent lots of time out on my favourite windowsill [more…]

Economics

Great Expectations (of Free Money)

12th July 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.’ So begins Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities with a line that might apply as much to the modern-day state of British welfare [more…]

Fiction

The Past is Present, Chapter Fourteen

12th July 2025 Going Postal 0

Dave watched the car drive off, he pulled on his balaclava pulled down only as far as his forehead, it looked like a woolly hat. He reminded the chief inspector to say nothing, “Listen only, [more…]

Arts

Fabulously Flamboyant Friday: The Day Music Died Pt 3 – Live Aid

11th July 2025 Going Postal 0

Greetings pop pickers and please be welcome to tonight’s Fabulously Flamboyant Friday and another of our fortnightly mastications upon the marshmallowy pillows of musical magnificence. In the first two parts of this series we examined [more…]

Islam

Zarah Sultana. Avoid.

11th July 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

Appropriately born on Halloween 1993 in Lozells, Birmingham, to a Muslim family of Pakistani heritage, Zarah Sultana is one of four sisters, her grandfather having emigrated from Maipur in the 1960s. Sultana attended Holte School [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story, Book Eight – Chapter Nineteen

10th July 2025 Going Postal 0

Brooke joined the meeting in the Board Room on Thursday as the team started to polish the presentation, deciding who would present what part of the programme and who would answer what questions. It was [more…]

Economics

Labour – Renters’ Rights Bill, Part Three

10th July 2025 Going Postal 0

10 million immigrants officially have increased the U.K. population, the true figure will of course be higher, no one has ever voted for this, one of the results of this invasion apart from the pressure [more…]

Hobbies

Playing With Electricity – Part 4

9th July 2025 Doc Mike Finnley 0

Damn You Morus Nigra! ‘John Swerved as Mary, Queen of Scots, was busy with her throne but it wouldn’t flush so her face turned to stone when Jane put her hand on John’s gear stick [more…]

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