Arts
Exam Season, Part 2
So what exactly is a mock exam? Year 10s generally have their first mock once the GCSEs have finished. Although conditions are exactly the same as GCSEs – again, using JCQ regulations – the exam [more…]
Articles by Going Postal
20th Century
Four Poems
I have visited the 1st World War battlefields several times. I have attended the ceremony at the Menin Gate in Ypres honouring those lost with no known grave and I have sat weeping in the [more…]
20th Century
Vote for War……….
The population of Shirehampton village in 1914 is not explicitly documented in available historical records. However, it is noted that in 1901, the parish had a population of 2,570. By 1921, the population had increased [more…]
19th Century
The Hancock Brothers: Night at the Museum
If you grew up anywhere near Newcastle, you were probably taken round the Hancock Museum at some point and spent most of the visit with your nose pressed against a glass case of stuffed animals [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Forty-Nine
Monday Good Morning, my happy readers. Well, it’s the start of another week, and it’s wet and gloomy here in Downing Street. When I say wet and gloomy, I want you to be sure I [more…]
20th Century
The Unknown Warrior
On November 7th, 1920, in strictest secrecy, four unidentified British bodies were exhumed from temporary battlefield cemeteries at Ypres, Arras, the Asine and the Somme. None of the soldiers who did the digging were told [more…]
Fiction
Bombs and Betrayal, Chapter Twenty-Five
Everyone shook hands, Dave apologised for yesterday. “I ran out of energy yesterday, it was knowing it was over which drained me, I didn’t have to think about it anymore. Sally has seen me like [more…]
Arts
Exam Season, Part 1
We have finally come to the end of exam season, 2026. The time of year looked forward to and feared by school kids at the same time whereas the teachers will need to make sure [more…]
Conservatives
When will the boats stop coming in?
So. Just to be (in the words of 2TierKeir) absolutely, crystal, clear……….. UsLabour has finally abandoned any pretense about “Stopping the Boats” or “Smashing the Gangs”. Such ‘policies’ have now been consigned to the spider infested, deep [more…]