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Briefs Encounter – A reappraisal

10th February 2025 Going Postal 0

After a chance meeting on a train platform, a married doctor (Trevor Howard) and a suburban housewife (Celia Johnson) enter into a muted but passionate, and ultimately doomed, love affair. With its evocatively fog-enshrouded setting, [more…]

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An Old Man’s Musings, Part Sixteen

9th February 2025 Going Postal 0

Thank you fellow Puffins for many a chortle lately. There have been some splendiferous insults directed at various members of our ‘soi-disant ‘ elite, really cheers me up. All very inventive!! Whenever I think of [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Sixty-Seven

9th February 2025 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning, my Puffin friends. It was lovely and sunny when I woke up this morning, quite different to the rain and wind that were forecast. So, I hurried off downstairs and out into [more…]

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A Price Too High, Chapter Nine

8th February 2025 Going Postal 0

He remembered nothing of the drive back, at 02:00 he woke up, he was hungry and thirsty, downstairs he ate cold chicken, drunk a pint of milk and looked for biscuits. He was soon back [more…]

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Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – 1972 And All That

7th February 2025 Going Postal 0

Welcome back my friends to the flamboyance that never ends, as Fabulously Flamboyant Friday proudly delivers yet another light-loafered, groin-polished googly from the gasworks end of musical magnificence. I’ve recently been re-reading David Hepworth’s rather [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story, Book Seven – Chapter Thirty-Two

6th February 2025 Going Postal 0

It was almost 8 a.m. when Jinnie dragged herself out of bed and left Paolo snoring gently. She made her way to the kitchen, desperate for a cup of coffee, and the first thing she [more…]

20th Century

Desert Mystery – Does Using AI Software Work?

5th February 2025 Going Postal 0

In my last series of articles (Desert Mystery – Letters from Afrika), I described what had happened to a German Afrika Korps driver, Hans Walden, during the WW2 Desert War through the translation of the [more…]

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Yet Another Caribbean Christmas And New Year, Part Three

5th February 2025 Going Postal 0

Saturday 28th December – Antigua (mid-cruise changeover day) I really don’t know why, but as usual, I woke just after six a.m. as it was just getting light, and we were heading into port. It [more…]

Book Review

Book review: The Man From Berlin, by Luke McCallin

3rd February 2025 Going Postal 0

‘Amidst the chaos of World War II, in a land of brutality and bloodshed, one death can still change everything …’ So runs the blurb on the front cover, and it’s fair to say it’s [more…]

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