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Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays: Cockles & Mussels…

26th July 2024 Going Postal 0

…Alive, Alive O! Welcome back my friends, to the flamboyance that never ends, as Fabulously Flamboyant Friday sashays up to the crease to deliver yet another light-loafered, lubed-up googly from the gasworks-end of musical magnificence. [more…]

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An Honest Biography of Kamala Harris

26th July 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

The 20th of October 1964 saw the birth of Kamala Iyer Harris at Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Oakland, California, a daughter to accomplished academics Shyamala and Donald Harris. Shyamala was already a PhD in nutrition [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story – Book Seven, Chapter Five

25th July 2024 Going Postal 0

The following morning Jinnie and Paolo woke up with the ship already docked in St Lucia. They were in no rush to go to breakfast as they were not booked on an excursion. In fact, [more…]

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Here be Dragons – Beware Quicksand

25th July 2024 Going Postal 0

“Treason doth never prosper, what’s the reason?  For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.” – John Harington Shortly after 12:30 pm local time on November 22, 1963, the medical staff at Parkland Memorial [more…]

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Desert Mysteries Redux – Part Four

24th July 2024 Going Postal 0

In Part 3, I included a photograph of a Hawker Hart with most of its fabric covering stripped off as a potential Desert Mystery regarding its fate. Further research has revealed that K4907 apparently had [more…]

21st Century

Kenya’s Third Liberation Movement

24th July 2024 Going Postal 0

Kenya’s Third Liberation Movement It’s no longer just about the finance bill. Kenyans want fundamental change. July 16, 2024 If the point of protest is to create a counter-crisis, then the people’s movement in Kenya [more…]

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A View From (Adjacent To) The Greenhouse; Rivers Of Blood….Innit?

23rd July 2024 Colin Cross 0

It’s easy to get a little bit despondent, especially if you spend too much time focusing on the stories of doom and gloom that are drip fed to us, on a daily basis, by the [more…]

20th Century

Report From Kenya, 1955 – Part Five

23rd July 2024 Going Postal 0

In 1955, at the height of the Mau Mau Rebellion, my uncle John Alldridge produced a series of reports from Kenya for the Birmingham Mail and the Manchester Evening News – Jerry F Kamiti I [more…]

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Cruising From Malta – Part Four

22nd July 2024 Going Postal 0

Day 12 – 2nd Monday – Corfu As we had sailed from Dubrovnik in Croatia to Corfu which is Greek we have had to put the clock forward an hour overnight to Greek time which [more…]

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