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A (Burts’ Eye) View From The Greenhouse; Feminism Or Infanticide

24th June 2025 Colin Cross 0

A busy long weekend just completed with a trip to the railway station. Mrs C’s birthday was graced by the presence of our friends from Essex who haven’t graced us with their presence (it’s a [more…]

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Return to First Principles to End Wars in the Middle East

24th June 2025 Patrick Barron 0

The world is being driven to war, possibly nuclear war, by current leaders who want their citizens to believe that that there are no other options. This is patently NOT TRUE. Let us explore first [more…]

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Digitising Old Audio Tapes

23rd June 2025 NeverUpToTheJob 0

There were three tasks involved in modernising and preserving the family archive, the second of which was to digitise the audio recordings. Digitising the old photographs was covered in a previous article, while digitising the [more…]

19th Century

The Iron Duke’s patience

23rd June 2025 well_chuffed 0

Napoleon was very dismissive of Arthur Wellesley referring to him as the sepoy General from his time spent in India. In contrast Wellesley said that Napoleon’s presence on the battlefield was worth 40,000 men. In [more…]

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Embers of The Affair, Part One

22nd June 2025 Going Postal 0

This is a recollection, in verse, of one of the most momentous periods in my life. But first – a tribute from me to all the lovely GP Laydees: And have you now, and will [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Eighty-Six

22nd June 2025 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning my happy readers, it is dry and a bit warmer this morning. The Donald isn’t messing about with the illegals in California. He hasn’t hesitated to send in the National Guard to [more…]

20th Century

Changed Times?

21st June 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

John Smyth was a Canadian-born British barrister and Christian evangelist born in 1941. Son of Colonel Edward Smyth, after prep school in Canada and public school in England, he completed his education at Trinity Hall, [more…]

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The Past is Present, Chapter Eleven

21st June 2025 Going Postal 0

On Friday morning, Trevor called Dave at 07:30, he was given the address, “when you checkout from your hotel, come here, we can go over all you’ve found out.” Dave added for him to look [more…]

20th Century

The History of Pop Music – 1980

20th June 2025 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

Featured song: Blondie – Call me This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped making it.  One [more…]

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