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Month: August 2025

Literature

An Old Man’s Musings Part Thirty-Eight

31st August 2025 Going Postal 0

A headline caught my eye : ‘Tenant renting out London council house while iving in Ethiopia among dozens to have property seized.’ Says it all about the current state of soft touch Britain brought about [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary, Two Hundred And Ninety-Four

31st August 2025 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning, friends, my good friends. The weather forecast said warm and sunny this morning, but they seem to have got it wrong again. It’s dull and overcast. However, the mood is bright in [more…]

theatre

Postcard From London

30th August 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

Mrs AWS and I are in London having chaperoned a Chinese VVIP to a rendezvous in the food court outside Euston Station. The little girl and her new escorts head off in the rough direction [more…]

Fiction

Downfall, Chapter Four

30th August 2025 Going Postal 0

“Why ‘Mac the Knife’?” “I think he had a very Scottish name, his surname was ‘Mac’ something, one of the other guys must have called him that during their training and it stuck.” “You don’t [more…]

20th Century

The History of Pop Music – 1985

29th August 2025 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

Featured song: David Bowie & Mick Jagger – Dancing In The Street This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 [more…]

Media

Footballs’s Race to Play The Race Card

29th August 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

The first game of the Premier League campaign kicked off on Friday, 15th August in front of 60,315 fans on the red side of Stanley Park. As Liverpool took on Bournemouth, the first goal of [more…]

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Arts

Jinnie’s Story, Book Eight – Chapter Twenty-Six

28th August 2025 Going Postal 0

Jinnie couldn’t decide who was the most excited to be flying to Barbados, the twins or Cathy. Of course, the twins had flown there several times before, both on holiday and to pick up a [more…]

America

IMF at the door

28th August 2025 well_chuffed 0

On my list of recommendations in YouTube the other day was an extract from TalkTV. It was a discussion between presenter Peter Cardwell and Liam Halligan. You may remember Liam, he had his own show [more…]

Human Interest

The Italian Job, Part 6

27th August 2025 Going Postal 0

Just to make you all aware…. this is going to be a long one. It wasnt necessarily the longest part of the trip but it was where a lot of memorable stuff happened… We left [more…]

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