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20th Century

A Passenger’s Tale

25th May 2020 Tom Pudding 4653 Comments

How it all began Not long after our new neighbours Ernie and Maisie Allen moved in next door, my wife and I were invited to join them and a group of their friends for drinks [more…]

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How to tackle the Going Postal crossword

23rd May 2020 Tom Pudding 2800 Comments

Introduction When I started work for the local council in 1964, I shared an office with a secretary, the high point of whose life seemed to be the arrival of the monthly NALGO newspaper which [more…]

Engineering

“And what have the Romans ever done for us?”

4th May 2020 Tom Pudding 3650 Comments

Introduction It is interesting that in Monty Python’s ‘Life of Brian’ when Reg , the leader of The People’s Front of Judaea, poses that question the very first response he receives from his gang of [more…]

19th Century

The Sharps Model 1874 and Reloading the 45-90 Black Powder Cartridge

20th April 2020 Tom Pudding 3595 Comments

Introduction One of my favourite scenes in one of my all-time favourite Westerns is when Josie Wales (played by Clint Eastwood) chased by Union Redlegs casually waits for them to reach mid-river on a hand-hauled [more…]

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20th Century

A Massacre of the Innocents

17th April 2020 Tom Pudding 3403 Comments

Introduction On Saturday 10 June, 1944, while heading north towards Normandy to help counter the Allied D-Day invasion, German troops of the Der Führer Regiment of the SS Panzer Division Das Reich, committed an unthinkable [more…]

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It started with a piss – Part Three

9th March 2020 Tom Pudding 3405 Comments

Introduction In Parts 1 and 2 I told the tale of how a routine scan as part of an investigation into a urinary tract infection had revealed a large (63mm) abdominal aortic aneurysm (Triple A) [more…]

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19th Century

A Labour of Love

4th February 2020 Tom Pudding 3628 Comments

Introduction Hidden away in the heart of France’s Drôme region about 50km south of Lyon is a little known yet magnificently eccentric example of naïve architecture that is well worth a detour or, in my [more…]

Health

It started with a piss – Part Two

23rd January 2020 Tom Pudding 3024 Comments

First off, aorta explain that the above pun doesn’t really work when the blood vessel that is the subject of these articles is an artery and not a vein but try as I will, I [more…]

Health

It started with a piss

19th December 2019 Tom Pudding 1632 Comments

I don’t know why, but for me medical problems always seem to occur at the most inconvenient times possible, usually on a Saturday evening. And so it was one Saturday in late October 2019 when [more…]

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