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Larry’s Diary Week Thirty Four

12th April 2020 Going Postal 0

Monday Good day readers. It’s Monday again and it looks like it’s going to be another busy week from the mutterings I tuned into over breakfast. Bozzie is holding another one of those Cobra meetings [more…]

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Postcard from Lille Part 59

11th April 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

I’m at my Utopia, a community in the jungle that I have supported, a place of peace and harmony between peoples. It has been trashed. The Utopians have fought amongst themselves, wrecked the place and [more…]

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Ooh, Aarr, A Guide To Rough Vegetable Gardening, Part 2

11th April 2020 Colin Cross 0

Alongside the onerous but rewarding task of preparing the ground for planting there are other jobs requiring the rough gardeners attention before the season gets into full swing. Being a Yorkshire man by birth, if [more…]

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Crossword No. 113

11th April 2020 Going Postal 0

First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a GP mug and keyring! Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Last week’s winners. tbd. Answers with next week’s [more…]

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D’ye laike dags?

10th April 2020 El Cnutador 0

The politicians lick our bones, The tacticians, hearts of stone They turn us against our brothers Make us fight and kill each other Locked in lust we put our trust in dogs – Motorhead, “Dogs”. [more…]

Arts

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

10th April 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 9th April 2020 Panel: Brandon Lewis (Conservative) Rachael Reeves (Labour) Peter Openshaw (Medical Expert) Darren McGarvey (Rapper) Ruby Wax (Celebrity) Venue: Uxbridge A few years ago, I went to watch my local XI [more…]

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Going Postal with Question Time

9th April 2020 Going Postal 0

Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate. On the panel are: Secretary of state for Northern Ireland Brandon Lewis, shadow chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and shadow [more…]

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Across Hubei by HSR

9th April 2020 Joe Slater 0

In spring 2013, I travelled by train across China from Guangzhou to Qingdao in the north via Wuhan. This part starts in Wuhan, from where the high-speed rails led northward from Hubei Province and across [more…]

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The Butcher Began To Kill The Ox, Ch 1

8th April 2020 Roger Ackroyd 0

For those new readers who have not yet availed themselves of my first novel, A Coin for the Hangman (available at Amazon as a print or ebook version), I am prefacing this first chapter of [more…]

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