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Samyaza Chapter 4 – May 2006.

8th May 2022 Blown Periphery 0

Contains descriptions of sexual relations. He had never seen him so angry. Bartlett didn’t do shouting anger, but he was extremely good at cold fury. “The responsibility of Guardian angels is to watch over people [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Forty Two

8th May 2022 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning people, it’s one of those days that looks better through the window. It’s lovely and sunny but when you wander down the garden there is a chilly breeze. Bozzie and the Little [more…]

20th Century

Nostalgia Album, Part Fourteen

7th May 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Last time, we followed my father and grandparents in their Ford 8 across the channel and down to the southwest of France via Louviers and Tours, all the way to glamorous Biarritz in the extreme [more…]

Hobbies

Crossword No. 218

7th May 2022 Going Postal 0

First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a GP mug. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Friday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 217 and a GP mug In like [more…]

20th Century

My Legends of Pop Music–Part Forty Two–Thin Lizzy

6th May 2022 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

My Legends of Pop Music – Part Forty-Two – Thin Lizzy If get this right, there will be many cover versions by future bands. I shall try and link live versions if they exist from [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story – Book Three, Chapter Eighteen

6th May 2022 Going Postal 0

Jinnie called back to Penny, “I’ve been called in as well. Can you use the downstairs shower room?” Years ago, when the girls were younger, Mr Walsh had realised that he would soon be living [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

6th May 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 5th May 2022 The Panel: Damian Green (Conservative) Louise Haigh (Labour) Charlotte Ivers (Journalist) Jack Thorne (Writer) Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones (Businessman) Venue: Walsall Tonight’s first question referenced the cost of living crisis. The questioner [more…]

20th Century

The War Correspondent, Part One

5th May 2022 Going Postal 0

Another chapter from “Special Assignment” by my uncle John Alldridge (published in 1960 and now long out of print) When the first great war correspondent, William Howard Russell, went out to the Crimea for the [more…]

Arts

The Dark Side of the Moon, by John Harris

5th May 2022 Going Postal 0

This is a book which shouldn’t work – yet it kind of does. An in-depth look at one particular album from one particular band would, on the face of it, seem too niche to have [more…]

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