Cooking
Easy Chocolate Brownies
Ingredients 3oz flour (I use buckwheat flour) 8oz butter 5oz dark brown sugar 4oz ground almonds (you can use 1 oz ground almonds and 3oz chopped hazlenuts) 2oz good quality cocoa powder (ie Green and [more…]
Articles by Going Postal
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Thirty Two
Monday Good morning merry readers. It’s amazing how quickly these Monday mornings come around and I set off on another journey into this whacky world we live in. Bozzie woke me up early clumping around [more…]
Hobbies
Going Postal Saturday Puzzles Number 209
SOD-YOU-KO 209 Word Search 209 First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins one of these. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Friday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 208 and [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Three, Chapter Eight
Jinnie awoke with Larry asleep on her feet. He had been delighted to see her home and had followed her around the house like a little dog, reluctant to leave her side. Her movement woke [more…]
Arts
Queen of the Hebrides – Personal Recollections
17.30 Saturday 31st October 2015 For the second day running, we sit on the hard plastic chairs at Glenegedale Airport, staring despondently out of the windows into the grey Islay gloom, with only the occasional [more…]
20th Century
Memories of My Early Childhood
I was born in 1950 and I have very happy memories of my early years. I was lucky I guess. We lived in a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Church End, Finchley with decent sized front, [more…]
America
“Some things never change like weather patterns, famines and wars, whilst others change rapidly through technology and human greed”
Claudio Grass (CG): Taken together, the moves by Russia and China, especially on the monetary front, with their plans of a gold-backed digital currency, appear to pose a direct challenge to the status quo and [more…]
America
“Some things never change like weather patterns, famines and wars, whilst others change rapidly through technology and human greed”
As my friends and clients know very well, but also anyone who has read any of my writings before, I always held that understanding history and geopolitics is one of the most important elements of [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Thirty One
Monday Good Morning everyone and welcome to another week of my ramblings. I read an article saying that saying the Little Otter has any influence over Bozzie, and hence government policy, was sexist. I must [more…]