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Crossword No. 157

13th February 2021 Going Postal 0

First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a copy of A Bear’s Diary, or War Crimes. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winners of a GP [more…]

A History of Pop Music – Albums 1978

12th February 2021 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

Featured Album: Meatloaf – Bat Out of Hell This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. I will select a featured album for each year [more…]

Ever since last week’s “Whist Night” Jinnie had been thinking over what she had heard. How could it be true that the Germans had exterminated all those people and nobody in England talked about it? [more…]

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

12th February 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 11th February 2021 Panel: Michael Forsyth (Conservative) Ian Murray (Labour) Stephen Fitzpatrick (Businessman) Angela Haggerty (Journalist) Jeanne Freeman (SNP) Venue: Scotland Given the venue, your humble author, through gritted teeth, must begin this [more…]

Going Postal with Question Time

11th February 2021 Going Postal 0

Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents another hour of BBC programming from Scotland. On the panel are: Oliver Dowden MP, secretary of state for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Conservative; Thangam Debbonaire [more…]

Korea, Suwon, Part 1

11th February 2021 Joe Slater 0

Samsung City Suwon is a city of about a million people, about an hour south of central Seoul by train. I suppose you could call it a scaled-up Korean version of Guildford, on the edge [more…]

Wildfowling: The voice in the darkness

11th February 2021 Columba Palumbus 0

There is always much excitement in the yard on the first day of the season. It was Saturday the 1st of November, and a big day for the Hall Farm shoot on the edge of [more…]

Book Review: The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

10th February 2021 Going Postal 0

I’m not someone who regularly reads books – I tend to buy several at a time with a view to reading them whilst on holiday (remember those?) or over the Christmas period, which is exactly [more…]

Population Control and the Covid Vaccination

10th February 2021 Fred Brownbill 0

Georgia Guidestones. In 1980 a large granite monument was raised in a field in Elbert County, GA. A set of 10 guidelines are engraved in 8 modern languages and a shorter message engraved at the [more…]