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Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays: ABBA

20th October 2023 Going Postal 0

Greetings pop pickers and welcome to this week’s Fabulously Flamboyant Friday, our weekly tribute to the rainbow and glitter world of music produced by artistes who are simply fabulous darling. This week we’ll be travelling [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

20th October 2023 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 19th October 2023 The Panel: Chris Heaton-Harris (Conservative) Hilary Benn (Labour) Jeffrey Donaldson (DUP) Sorcha Eastwood (Alliance Party) John Finucane (Sinn Fein) Venue: Lisburn Hilary Benn (not his real name, Hilary James Wedgwood-Benn) [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story, Book Six – Chapter Two

19th October 2023 Going Postal 0

Penny and Dan had a much better flight to Bridgetown than they had expected. Unlike Jinnie they weren’t earning a fortune, their jobs with the SIS paid well, but not First Class well. Consequently, they [more…]

Economics

Gold for the people

19th October 2023 Going Postal 0

At the end of September, a very interesting story made the rounds in the media and caught my attention. Apparently, the US big box giant Costco added one rather surprising product to its range and it proved [more…]

Computing

The Slide Rule – Part 1

18th October 2023 Doc Mike Finnley 0

Introduction “Time is a wayward traveller, who sometimes rides posthaste through thick and thin…” From On The Making Of Gardens by Sir George Sitwell For some strange reason that opening sentence, by Sir George, has [more…]

America

Notes from an American Road Trip

18th October 2023 Patrick Barron 0

My wife and I recently drove just shy of three thousand miles to see friends and family in the American Midwest. We started just outside Philadelphia, located in the southeast corner of Pennsylvania on America’s [more…]

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Visit to a Ghost Town

17th October 2023 Going Postal 0

My wife and I have taken many holidays in the USA to visit friends and relatives and generally just to enjoy various aspects of American culture. When my wife was younger she had been employed [more…]

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’59 Trail, Part Five

17th October 2023 Going Postal 0

Part 5 of my uncle, John Alldridge’s 1959 report from Canada’s Far North for the Birmingham Mail – Jerry F The Pas, Manitoba The trick about getting round this vast, wide-open country in a hurry, [more…]

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The Birds (1963)

16th October 2023 Going Postal 0

Not the most obvious choice to start with when delving into the Hitchcock canon, he did better films undoubtedly, but The Birds is just a great example of pure story telling. We are not weighed [more…]

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