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The Railway’s sleepers: the Patron, the builder and the Polymath

17th August 2026 Going Postal 0

A final journey into history to meet three men whose names never sadly made it into popular memory but who, like all the others, laid the foundations still used by the railways to this day. [more…]

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A dastardly deception

17th August 2026 well_chuffed 0

Have we all misunderestimated the Knob o’t North. There we are ridiculing him for apparently having no plan when it is possible he does have a plan but is reluctant to let on what it [more…]

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A Dazzlingly Ferocious Crime Film : Sexy Beast (2000)

16th August 2026 Going Postal 0

Michael Caine was once quoted as saying he appeared in the gritty crime film “Get Carter”as an antithesis to the jokey caper “The Italian Job”. But to sufficiently compare Get Carter and Sexy Beast, one has to first understand the [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Thirty-Seven

16th August 2026 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning, my happy readers. Hot again this morning when I went out, but I’m delighted to see it’s not going to only be for the one day, and it might even rain a [more…]

Fiction

Postcard From Jerry, Part Two

15th August 2026 Always Worth Saying 0

Destination? Open ground halfway between the Oval and the Thames. Alert state? Heat wave – meteorological and political. The grass has given up pretending to be grass; dusty cardboard with the occasional flattened mat of [more…]

Fiction

Bombs and Betrayal, Chapter Thirteen

15th August 2026 Going Postal 0

Sally was waiting for him when he came in, he dropped the backpack and hugged her. He felt her crying, trying to pull away, she wouldn’t let him go. When she eventually let her grip [more…]

20th Century

A History of Pop Music – Albums 1968

14th August 2026 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

Featured Album: Dianna Ross & The Supremes – Greatest Hits 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 [more…]

Fiction

The Not So Secret Life of Jason Arday

14th August 2026 Always Worth Saying 0

Crashing through the undergrowth, Tommy gun blazing, Jason Arday claimed yet another bar for his Victoria Cross as the enemy fell like leaves before him. Or rather he didn’t, as, unlike the ‘real’ Walter Mitty [more…]

Arts

Manouche – Part Two

13th August 2026 Going Postal 0

After leaving the Manouche, I stayed in London for about a year, putting some money together, and surprised myself by getting married to a Colombian lady. While in London, Beudjeu and I still wrote to [more…]

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