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Saving in gold is the only reliable way to save

6th May 2024 Going Postal 0

For the longest time, according to conventional and widely embraced wisdom, all responsible and prudent members of society had to have a savings account. All those hardworking taxpayers and all those forward-thinking and sensible individuals [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary – Week Two Hundred And Thirty-Three

5th May 2024 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning readers and hello from your favourite cat reporter. My feeder was a little late this morning, apparently there was a problem on her Tube line. Anyway, to make up for being late [more…]

Arts

Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – Ladies’ Night

3rd May 2024 Going Postal 0

Greetings pop pickers! Welcome to tonight’s Fabulously Flamboyant Friday and another of our fortnightly frolics in the fragrantly floral front gardens of musical magnificence. This week, as we mark International Lesbian Visibility Week, we shall [more…]

Fiction

Jinnie’s Story- Book Six, Chapter Twenty-Eight

2nd May 2024 Going Postal 0

On Wednesday Jinnie dropped the twins at school before heading to Potters Bar station to pick up the train to Finsbury Park and then the Tube to Brixton. There was an icy drizzle in the [more…]

Democracy

Poland’s Dual Military Purpose Infrasturcture Project

2nd May 2024 Going Postal 0

Andrzej Duda inadvertently vindicated those Russian observers who long suspected that this transport megaproject right outside of Warsaw had dual military purposes, thus proving that they were right about Poland’s real plans all along. Polish [more…]

20th Century

The Death Railway, Part Five

1st May 2024 Going Postal 0

David Lean’s 1957 film depicted the bridge as a significant timber structure located in the deep jungle, spanning a narrow river featuring rocks and rapids. This is of course a work of fiction and was [more…]

Politics

Europe willing to pursue proxy war against Iran through Israel

1st May 2024 Going Postal 0

After Iran’s Saturday strike against Israel, the European Union (EU) will “start the necessary work” to target the Islamic Republic with heavier sanctions, with a focus on the country’s drone technology, according to Josep Borrell, [more…]

20th Century

In The Steps of The First Army, Part Five

30th April 2024 Going Postal 0

“In the fifth of his articles John Alldridge writes of the holy city of Kairouan. It was here that the First Army and the Eighth Army, all the way from El Alamein, finally linked up.” [more…]

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Totally NOT Star Wars, No sirree : Starcrash – The Movie…….

29th April 2024 Going Postal 0

It’s the late 1970s, and just hitting the big screen is a space opera in which a lightsabre-wielding smuggler embarks on a royal rescue mission, a talking droid sidekick provides comic relief, and a classically [more…]

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