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20th Century

The Desert War – August 1942

29th August 2022 well_chuffed 0

August 80 years ago and although the situation in the desert starts off mostly quiet all hell is breaking out at sea. The Axis are desperate to resupply Rommel and the Allies are equally desperate [more…]

20th Century

The Desert War – July 1942

4th August 2022 well_chuffed 0

The month of July 80 years ago sees what became known as the 1st Battle of El Alamein, the 2nd would become the more famous one. In the first one the German advance was halted [more…]

Elections

Will we just make a cup of tea?

29th July 2022 well_chuffed 0

Do the math as our American cousins say. Keith has said he wants to form a Labour government but has no intention of negotiating with any other Party either before or after the election. We [more…]

Business

Working in Kuwait

28th July 2022 well_chuffed 0

On the 22nd May 1978 at the tender age of 27, me and ‘er indoors flew to Kuwait so I could go and work. It was a bit of an adventure, I had no idea [more…]

Conservatives

The Milk Snatcher

18th July 2022 well_chuffed 0

Many puffins seem to be big fans of Margaret Thatcher. I have to agree that she was the best Prime Minister since WW2 and was very patriotic. So good was she that all subsequent ones [more…]

Conservatives

Boris Johnson’s guarantee

13th July 2022 well_chuffed 0

Even an old cynic like me was taken aback when the fat Turk came out with his “I want to stay a few more weeks to continue implementing our manifesto.” Firstly can I introduce you [more…]

Computing

A visit to Kuala Lumpur

29th June 2022 well_chuffed 0

Back in the 80s and 90s in my IT life I did a lot of work on something called platform migrations. If your eyes haven’t already glazed over imagine taking Windoze programs and automatically converting [more…]

20th Century

The Desert War – June 1942

23rd June 2022 well_chuffed 0

80 years ago in June things started to look bleak in the desert, the Axis was on the advance and we were retreating. At sea the Royal Navy was just as busy and the convoys [more…]

Arts

Educayshun, educayshun, educayshun

8th June 2022 well_chuffed 0

It all sounded so wonderful. Loads more, up to 5 times more, graduates coming into the workplace, it couldn’t help but improve the country. We would be flooded with doctors and engineers. What a wonderful [more…]

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