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Postcard From Kyrgyzstan

5th January 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

There’s something I’ve been meaning to tell Swiss Bob but haven’t got round to. Perhaps you could oblige? Next time you bump into him, drop into the conversation that, after two years sitting around on [more…]

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I’ve seen the Vaxx and the Damage Done

5th January 2022 Lugosi 0

This article is about heart problems and a correlation I have personally made with The Jab. I didn’t think I would come to this conclusion but I am leaning that way. Being a pedant my [more…]

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Sailing my life away, part 31

4th January 2022 Ancient Mariner 0

I had hoped to write more about Piracy in SE Asia in this article and illustrate the region with some of my own photos. But as I wasn’t confined to solitary in my own home [more…]

Authoritarianism

Tears & Teargas

4th January 2022 Going Postal 0

Those of you with longer and good memories may remember my article from January 2019 about protests in Hong Kong and titled ‘The whiff of teargas’. After recovering from the said tear gas, I wrote: [more…]

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My Watch Collection

3rd January 2022 Going Postal 0

I love wrist watches. My grandfather was a clockmaker, so it’s probably a genetic thing. The family story is that he narrowly avoided execution during WW2 by offering to mend the officers’ watches. (I had [more…]

Economics

Why governments practise currency debasement – and how to cure them

3rd January 2022 Emile Woolf 0

I have written on the subject of currency debasement many times, but it is now reaching crunch-time – even for the pound, dollar, yen and euro.  Most respected economists persist in defining inflation as a [more…]

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The Colombian Sojurn – Chapter 18

2nd January 2022 Blown Periphery 0

The jungle east of the Andes, following a tributary of the Rio Caqueta. Day One. The first part of the journey was relatively easy, almost enjoyable. It was good going on the banks of the [more…]

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Bird Brains?

2nd January 2022 Going Postal 0

I’m not at all sure now how we got on to the subject of birds, but I was talking (I can hear her now, ‘To, dear, not with: the Americans get so hopelessly confused about [more…]

20th Century

Mystery Album , Part Sixteen

1st January 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Last time on Mystery Album I forgot to tell Puffins that the first Swedish monarch, King Gustav VI Adolph, to be interred at Kungliga Begravningsplatsen and away from Riddarholmen Church (apart from the wayward Christina) [more…]

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