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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…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Eight

7th December 2025 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning my friends, and welcome to another week of my musings. Bright and sunny this morning, but it is colder than yesterday. So Legohead thinks that being critical of Robber Reeves is sexist. [more…]

Fiction

Downfall, Chapter Eighteen

6th December 2025 Going Postal 0

The car picked them up on time, Dave sat in the front, Sally and Jane Goodley in the back, there ID’s were checked off at the visitor entrance. It was a wait until a guard [more…]

Education

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

5th December 2025 Going Postal 0

There are many reasons why I took on the job as caretaker. The school is just across the road, the pay is reasonable for the hours worked, I am, technically, my own boss and I [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story, Book Nine – Chapter Eight

4th December 2025 Going Postal 0

Jinnie stood in the queue at the Heathrow Artisan Sandwich shop waiting to be served. She rather liked the fact that she was queuing, it meant the branch was doing good business. Jinnie reached the [more…]

Christianity

A Trip to the Temple

3rd December 2025 Going Postal 0

London, despite its many many issues, is still a nice place to visit, to wonder at the beautiful architecture and to explore its history.  Of course you no longer expect to see many English people [more…]

Economics

Immigration, unemployment and publicity

3rd December 2025 Going Postal 0

When all else has failed, our great leaders and civil servants usually  revert to telling us we need immigrants to ‘do the jobs the British won’t do’ (even when those jobs were only advertised abroad, [more…]

Collecting

An odd obsession

1st December 2025 Going Postal 0

There is a saying that one chainsaw is too many, but 10 is not enough…. I have fidddled about with mechanical things all my life – not only because of the enjoyment but because of [more…]

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