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War Crimes Chapter 19 – The RAF Loadmaster’s Story

2nd August 2020 Blown Periphery 0

War Crimes Chapter 19 Son of a gun You walked into the party like you were walking onto a yacht Your hat strategically dipped below one eye Your scarf it was apricot You had one [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary Week Fifty Two

2nd August 2020 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning everyone and welcome to a year of my diary. I must admit I didn’t expect it to last this long. I thought you, happy readers, would have got fed up with it [more…]

Arts

The Swaling, Part Fourteen

1st August 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

Rather than being in a nun’s hostel, or a train compartment (with the Spanish army sleeping in the luggage racks), we’re on a balcony at the Royal Maroc hotel in Tangiers, thanks to Tammy and [more…]

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Crossword No. 129

1st August 2020 Going Postal 0

First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a copy of A Bear’s Diary. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Last week’s winner. 128 Captain Black. Answers [more…]

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Car review: Hyundai Ioniq Hybrid Auto 2018

31st July 2020 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

Following on from the excellent article by AWS the other Friday on a VW thing, I thought I would do one on the car I have just purchased.  Maybe some of you could write something, [more…]

Computing

Testing, Testing, Testing!

31st July 2020 Lugosi 0

I am a techno-luddite when it comes to mobile phones. “I just want it to ring when someone calls me and I want to call other people”. When I had a trip planned to Colorado [more…]

Arts

Ice Station Zero

30th July 2020 Going Postal 0

Idly browsing the Interweb the other day, I came across this BBC article on the terrible outlook for the ice sheet around the North Pole: Arctic Summers to be ice-free by 2013. Well worth a [more…]

Mathematics

Some More Head Scratching Data

30th July 2020 Godfrey Bloom 0

Apologies for returning to Covid-19 for examples of data oddities. But the situation coughs up, pardon the phrase, more anomalies every day. If Boris had read statistics not classics he would have spotted them. I [more…]

Cooking

Atomic Buffalo Turds

29th July 2020 Captain Black 0

The time has come to introduce the uninitiated Puffins of this world to one of the best kept secrets of the culinary world:  Atomic Buffalo Turds (ABTs).  Don’t ask me how they got their name [more…]

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