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A View (Round The Corner) From The Greenhouse; Happy New Year……Innit?

9th January 2024 Colin Cross 0

Welcome to 2024 Postaliers. A new year, undoubtedly filled to the brim with the same old bollix. At least, so long as I’m able to maintain my concentration, you’ll have my fortnightly diary to take [more…]

Authoritarianism

Means of Communication and Suppression

9th January 2024 Going Postal 0

The seed of this article came from this site, I was like many other GPers a poster on GF until banned, whether SB knew what he was creating I don’t know but he is to [more…]

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A Few of My Favourite Things – Part 2

8th January 2024 Going Postal 0

Part 1 of this series featured 3 glass pieces of art from my collection. In the second part I take a look at some other forms of art, the first of which is a print [more…]

20th Century

Teh 1970’s & all that

8th January 2024 Going Postal 0

One of the problems with claims that our situation is “just like the 1970s,” is that very few adults of the period are still around to share the memory.   It is only later in life [more…]

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Merry Christmas, Sergeant Edge

7th January 2024 Blown Periphery 0

Edge knew that he was coming down with something. His head felt muggy and the back of his throat and soft palate felt enlarged and spongy. He had been unable to clear his left ear, [more…]

Language

No one is attacking me

7th January 2024 Going Postal 0

Odysseus, when asked his name by Polyphemus, famously retorted ‘Outis’ – ‘no-one’, or ‘nobody’; thus, when the drunk Cyclops was having his eye gouged out by Odysseus and co., his call for help from his [more…]

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The Dreaming Spires

6th January 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

The 1949 page of our old family photo album is confidently captioned ‘Bournemouth’ but neglects any images of the Hampshire Riviera resort. Not to worry. They say that getting there is half of the fun [more…]

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How to fit a security camera

6th January 2024 Going Postal 0

How to fit a security camera Having just fitted a security camera, I thought I’d pen an article detailing the thought process that I went through to choose which camera to fit, and the fitting [more…]

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High Vis – Blending (2022)

5th January 2024 Going Postal 0

Music of the angry working class has not been commercially supported over the last fifteen years or so. I’ve nothing to back that point up other than anecdotal evidence from perusals of the genres in [more…]

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