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Pencil Box – Christmas 2025

29th December 2025 Doc Mike Finnley 0

Season’s greetings with a little cheerful podcast. Only 8 minutes long so more of a comedy sketch. It’s a book review/panel type show with myself (as Alvin Whakahihi), Peabody, Edna (as Lady Pendlesham), Mr Wiggy [more…]

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Investment : Timing is everything

29th December 2025 Going Postal 0

It’s poetic that Warren Buffett stepped down at Berkshire Hathaway earlier this year after one of the most extraordinary investing careers in modern history. Financial savvy Puffins (are there any other ?) will not need [more…]

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An Old Man’s Musings Part Forty-Eight

28th December 2025 Going Postal 0

I have come to the conclusion that there are those living amongst us who understand what is going on and those who do not have a clue. An example of the later was the husband [more…]

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In The Bleak Midwinter

28th December 2025 Swiss Bob 0

This is a poem written by Christina Rossetti, set to music first by Gustav Holst in 1906 and then by Harold Darke in 1911. This is by Darke :   Swiss Bob 2025  

Christianity

Christmas at Christmas With Christmas

27th December 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

Spending Christmas at Christmas with Christmas sounds a very Puffin thing to do. First of all, we’ll have to decide when to meet. The eagle-eyed among you may point out that we’ve missed our chance, [more…]

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Christmas 2025 Crossword

27th December 2025 Going Postal 0

First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a Trump GP mug AND a GP keyring. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm tomorrow, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email   © Richard Puller 2025 [more…]

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Fabulously Festive Fridays – Plank Spanking

26th December 2025 Going Postal 0

Welcome back my friends to the flamboyance that never ends, and please be welcome to yet another of our regular sprout-fuelled snuffles around the sweaty intergluteal cleft of popular culture. I trust you all enjoyed [more…]

Arts

In search of Christmas in mainland China

26th December 2025 Going Postal 0

Hongkonger spent the weekend before Christmas over the mainland border in Guandong province. Different to Hong Kong? Oh yes. I can recall many years ago landing in Hong Kong in December to be confronted by [more…]

Arts

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

25th December 2025 Going Postal 0

Painted in about 1470/75, it is in the National Gallery. In memory of Caroline Catherine McNicholas 2nd October 1957 – 3rd January 2022   OldTrout  

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