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Month: August 2025

Animals

Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Ninety

3rd August 2025 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning, all my lovely readers. I wasn’t looking forward to waking up to another wet morning, but the forecasters seem to have got it wrong again, as when I trotted down the garden [more…]

Arts

Book Review, ‘Karla’s Choice’ by Nick Harkaway

2nd August 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

The children have a WhatsApp group where they conspire to buy me useful things for Christmas and birthdays. This is a big improvement on the old scattergun approach, where everyone either bought me the same [more…]

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The Past is Present, Chapter Seventeen

2nd August 2025 Going Postal 0

On Thursday morning Dave packed ready for London, he Ubered for a couple of hours to pass the time. He was ready waiting for Sally to return from work, she dropped him off at the [more…]

20th Century

The History of Pop Music – 1983

1st August 2025 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

Featured song: Spandau Ballet – True This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped making it. One [more…]

Authoritarianism

Do You Still Believe Anything You Read?

1st August 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

Apologies in advance to Larry and his scribe WorthingGooner for pre-empting part of this coming Sunday’s ever popular and always entertaining Larry’s Diary, but something has cropped up and I think all G-P authors, commenters [more…]

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