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Tales From The Alarm Industry, Part Three

16th September 2023 Going Postal 0

Stories from my time spent working for an alarm company. Part One is here Part Two is here This time: Fire alarms, posh houses and the directors. Getting well into my list of service calls [more…]

20th Century

G5E4 – Origins of Rock ‘n’ Roll – The Start of The Later Years

15th September 2023 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

Welcome pop pickers.  Back to Rock ‘n’ Roll, the start of the later period. This is the sort of music that makes you want to tap your feet, dance, and singalong. Thank you to Wiki, [more…]

Animals

This Sporting Life – Chapter 6

15th September 2023 Going Postal 0

Introduction So, my short series of articles on the nags ends where it began, at Doncaster Racecourse.  In the first Chapter, you may recall I set out how my passion for horse racing began on [more…]

Arts

Jinnie’s Story, Book Five – Chapter Twenty-Nine

14th September 2023 Going Postal 0

A rather tense Ro parked her second-hand Ford Focus behind a brand new Citroën C3 and walked up the garden path past another C3. She was still looking at the shiny new car on the [more…]

Book Review

‘Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop?’ By Chris van Tulleken

14th September 2023 Going Postal 0

Ultra-Processed Foods have been getting a lot more press recently and I’d been wanting to know more about the subject beyond the few articles I’d read and this book seemed as good as any.  The [more…]

20th Century

2,4,6,8 Motorway

13th September 2023 Going Postal 0

Back when motoring was fun…. Tom Robinson was singing this song about our road network to us back in the Seventies, when he wasn’t sharing his anthemic “Sing if you’re glad to be gay”. That [more…]

21st Century

Colonialist Le Grand Fromage, Part One

13th September 2023 Going Postal 0

Le Grand Fromage Lands Although elected under the banner of the Socialist Party (which obviously holds pro “European” views), Hollande attempted to govern in the interest of the “Colonial Party known as French Colonial Union”. [more…]

Culture

A View From The Greenhouse; The Ubiquitous Mission Statement!

12th September 2023 Colin Cross 0

I’ve mentioned “Old Jack” and his abandoned (now becoming ramshackle) old house before, on more than one occasion. If it were just about anywhere else in the UK which isn’t a tiny rural hamlet, I’m [more…]

Computing

Early Impressions of Artificial Intelligence

12th September 2023 Always Worth Saying 0

As a regular reader, you’ll know I’ve taken on a pupil, Mr AI Bot. A useful chap, undoubtedly artificial but every inch the novice when it comes to the realm of intelligence. The vacancy attracted [more…]

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