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Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Nine

14th December 2025 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning my friends, it is yet another wet and dreary morning here in Downing Street and it was truly nasty when I went down to the bottom of the garden behind the gardener’s [more…]

Fiction

Downfall, Chapter Nineteen

13th December 2025 Going Postal 0

Dave knocked on Jane Goodley’s office door, he brought a coffee with him, he wasn’t sure what mood she would be in. “Have you recovered from last week?” “Yes, I was exhausted when I came [more…]

Arts

Fabulously Festive Fridays – The Christmas Single

12th December 2025 Going Postal 0

Welcome back my friends to the flamboyance that never ends and please be welcome to yet another of our regular Campari soaked fumbles around the moist gusset of popular culture. Tonight, after our previous examination [more…]

Education

The Party’s Over, It’s Time to Call It a Day

12th December 2025 Going Postal 0

By March 2020 I’d been doing the job for over 9 yrs. We’d all seen the videos coming out of China, people falling down dead in the street, the welding of tower block doors and [more…]

Arts

Jinnie’s Story, Book Nine – Chapter Nine

11th December 2025 Going Postal 0

Jinnie heard nothing from the Walters until Tuesday afternoon when she got a call and the voice said, “Good afternoon Dame Jinnie, this is Andrew Walters from the Lobster House.” Jinnie replied, “Good afternoon Mr [more…]

20th Century

Desert Mystery: Wrecked in The Desert

10th December 2025 Going Postal 0

Amongst my collection of original photographs taken during the Desert War by members of the Deutsche Afrika Korps, I have several of wrecked aircraft but most are usually burnt out and, except to an aviation [more…]

Arts

The Accidental Strength of the English Constitution

10th December 2025 Going Postal 0

The English constitution is often described as ‘unwritten,’ yet it has proved more durable than almost any codified rival. Its resilience does not stem from philosophical elegance or the vision of a single generation of [more…]

16th Century

Tracy Borman: Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I

8th December 2025 Going Postal 0

It is always a bonus when a book takes one or more well-known figures and makes you see them in an entirely new light. Tracy Borman has achieved just this with her dual biography of [more…]

Literature

Words Part Six

7th December 2025 Going Postal 0

Horatius! Had forgotten about that stirring epic poem. Good to see it getting an airing. I read this extract from ‘The Prophet’ by Kahil Gibran in my speech at my daughter’s wedding. ‘And a woman [more…]

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