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Articles by Roger Ackroyd

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In Chaos there is Fertility

16th November 2022 Roger Ackroyd 3060 Comments

I would be very surprised if any of you good Going Postal readers would say of Sir Malcolm Arnold “never heard of him” when I tell you that he was the composer of  film scores [more…]

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Stand in the Trench, Achilles*

6th July 2022 Roger Ackroyd 4417 Comments

Most of us, if asked, would be able to name a fair number of WW1 poets and writers without too much hesitation. Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves, Rupert Brooke, Isaac Rosenberg – [more…]

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The Thin Red Line

15th June 2022 Roger Ackroyd 1672 Comments

A fellow poster suggested that I should write a piece about the art of…er…writing since it has become, rather later in life than I would have liked, my profession. Flattering as this suggestion is – [more…]

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Stories from the Shelf, Volume One

25th May 2022 Roger Ackroyd 1789 Comments

Browsing secondhand bookshop shelves has been one of life’s delights, from the time I was barely in my teens and visiting the Croydon Bookshop in the Old Town (now long demolished to accommodate the flyover) [more…]

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THE FINAL HONK

18th May 2022 Roger Ackroyd 2884 Comments

Yesterday, I spent some time with the dead. I hadn’t intended to visit the natural burial ground set just below the Jack and Jill Windmills on the South Downs but the weather was good and [more…]

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Three Men on a Bike, Part Four

2nd May 2022 Roger Ackroyd 5651 Comments

Two weeks after setting forth from Croydon we finally free-wheeled into St.Nazaire on the southern coast of Brittany, somewhat short of our initial target of St.Tropez. The tandem and single bike had survived various alarms [more…]

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Three Men on a Bike, Part Three

27th April 2022 Roger Ackroyd 2718 Comments

Having recovered from the ravages of what we thought was pilchard food poisoning but was more likely some dodgy Camembert, and rested sufficiently at the Rouen youth hostel we ventured forth on Day 5 and [more…]

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A Life in Three Honks, Honk the Second

20th April 2022 Roger Ackroyd 2658 Comments

At the end of part 1 we left our intrepid teenager entering the portals of the famous Foyles Bookshop in the Charing Cross Road, London. Founded in 1903 initially selling secondhand books from a small [more…]

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Three Men on a Bike, Part Two

13th April 2022 Roger Ackroyd 3214 Comments

You will recall that we three intrepid cyclists, Cough, Pat and my good self, had landed in Blangy sur Bresle, a small village on the border of Picardy and Normany on the second night of [more…]

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