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20th Century

Nostalgia Album, Part Eleven

16th April 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Last time on Nostalgia Album we visited the coast at Malta’s Ghajn Tuffieha. Pictured on the road nearby is my father’s cousin, Anne, at the front, with her parents Lil and Bob standing behind her, [more…]

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The Making of Question Time Review

15th April 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

In the un-read comments beneath Going-Postal’s weekly unread Question Time Review, Puffin’s ask how is it done? Or rather, why is it done? Even, why bother doing it? No matter. Perhaps answering the first unread [more…]

20th Century

The Reimagining of Nora Baker

12th April 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Nora Baker was born in Moscow on New Years’ Day 1914. Her mother was Ora Ray Baker, an American from Albuquerque, New Mexico. During her peripatetic early years, Nora was raised in London’s Bloomsberry and [more…]

20th Century

Nostaglia Album, Part Ten

9th April 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

At the end of the Second War, my father’s cousin Anne and her mother travelled to Malta to join her father Rob who was a Royal Navy foreman in Malta’s Grand Harbour dockyards. They lodged [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

8th April 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 7th April 2022 The Panel: Gregg Hands (Conservative) Emily Thornberry (Labour) Justin Welby (Archbishop of Canterbury) Zing Tsjeng (VICE UK) Dan Hodges (Mail on Sunday) Venue: Canterbury Back in the day, when an [more…]

20th Century

Nostalgia Album, Part Nine

2nd April 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

At the end of the Second World War, on my father’s side of the family, the generations had passed with both grandparents dying in their sleep at ripe old ages. By VJ Day the cast [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

1st April 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 31st March 2022 The Panel: Maria Caulfield (Conservative) Steve Reed (Labour) Julia Hartley-Brewer (Broadcaster) Zanny Minton Beddoes (The Economist) Ian Blackford (SNP) Venue: Bath This week’s Question Time took place in front of [more…]

20th Century

Nostalgia Album, Part Eight

26th March 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

After last week’s Nostalgia Album sadness at hearing great aunt Ernestine lost her husband in the First War, her son in the Second War and spent much of her life in the Lancaster County Mental [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

25th March 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 25th March 2022 The Panel: Damian Hines (Conservative) Lisa Nandy (Labour) Kate Andrews (The Spectator) Dom Joly (Comedian) Mark Serwokta (PCS Union) Venue: Reading Puffins often wonder, in the unread comments nested below [more…]

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