20th Century
My Legends of Pop Music – Part One – Buddy Holly
My Legends of Pop Music – Part One – Buddy Holly I suppose we must define pop music; I would agree with one view from Wiki which says it is a genre of popular music [more…]
Blog
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Two, Chapter Four
Jinnie woke with a start and looking round the bedroom it took her a moment or two to remember where she was. She leant over to the bedside table and put on her new digital [more…]
Arts
GB News Review
GB News 15th July 2021 Present: Bex Deadman (Travel Expert) Daryl, Darren and Vicky (Recovering Addicts) Catherine Tramlines (Online Harm Expert) Dr Alan Billings (Crime Commissioner) Venue: DePiero and Halligan In last week’s GB News [more…]
Arts
Cnuteneering, Part Twenty Three
Welcome back to Cnuteneering, where the possible is made more difficult by bone headed ignorance, overenthusiasm and pointy metal things being brought together. You may want to refresh your memory on the project in: Part [more…]
20th Century
Behind the Bamboo Curtain, Part Two
My uncle was a staff reporter for the Manchester Evening News from the late 1940s until his death in 1973. The following is from a series of articles in which he describes his extensive visit [more…]
Economics
War on Cash: EU steps up the fight
The prolonged and repeated lockdowns, business closures and travel bans have caused widespread economic devastation and changed the way all of us live, work and interact with each other. These were the most obvious changes [more…]
Computing
A Simple R6G Dye Laser – Part 1
Introduction First of all, it’s great to see that Going-Postal is still up and running. It’s always a pleasure to write an article and have it published here. It’s also good to see a lot [more…]
Authoritarianism
Book Review: A State of Fear, Laura Dodsworth, Part 2
It’s late June 2021; I have a brief face-to-face encounter with former Supreme Court Justice Lord Jonathan Sumption, at the Chalke Farm History Festival, near Salisbury, Wiltshire. He is there to promote his latest work, [more…]
Cooking
Tomato Growing In A Pandemic – Mask Wars
Mask Wars It had to happen and, once it did, the inevitability of the reaction was, strangely enough, inevitable. The mask has taken on a symbolism all its own. On one side of the argument [more…]