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Cine Film Conversion
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Digitising Old Cine Films

7th July 2025 NeverUpToTheJob 1986 Comments

Having modernised and saved the old family photos and audio recordings for ‘posterity’ by converting them to digital format, attention turned to the family cine films, shot in the 1960s and early 1970s: 24 reels [more…]

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Cruising to the Canaries – Part One

6th July 2025 Going Postal 2066 Comments

Day One – Saturday As I have made the Baltic level of the P&O Peninsula Club, I have a few perks on this holiday, one of which is an early boarding time. Today I am [more…]

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The History of Pop Music – 1981

4th July 2025 Phil the Ex Test Manager 2250 Comments

Featured song: Squeeze – Labelled With Love 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. [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Glasto Review

4th July 2025 Always Worth Saying 2373 Comments

Glasto 27th-29th June 2025 Present: Charli xcx Bob Vylan Neil Young Venue: Glastonbury What a struggle it was, but on your behalf this humble reviewer — devastated by the absence of Question Time during the [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story, Book Eight – Chapter Eighteen

3rd July 2025 Going Postal 2442 Comments

Jinnie had a sense of déjà vu as she stood in Terminal Three arrivals by the exit from the customs hall waiting for Monica to appear, it was not so long ago that she had [more…]

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Bash 2025 Report

3rd July 2025 Swiss Bob 2632 Comments

The site has changed under the new owner. Perhaps not quite as bucolic but it’s good to see the place busy and hopefully making money because the alternative would likely be another housing estate. Things [more…]

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Changed Times? Part Two

28th June 2025 Always Worth Saying 1810 Comments

Despite claims of a cover-up that cost Archbishop of Canterbury Welby his job, close to the time of the scandalous behaviour of Evangelical Christian barrister John Smyth, the following appeared in the February 1989 biography [more…]

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Fabulously Flamboyant Friday – A Postcard From Cannes

27th June 2025 Going Postal 2320 Comments

Welcome back my friends to the flamboyance that never ends, as Fabulously Flamboyant Friday sashays up to the crease to deliver yet another light-loafered, lubed-up googly from the gasworks-end of musical magnificence. This week’s missive [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

27th June 2025 Always Worth Saying 2236 Comments

Question Time 26th June 2025 The Panel: Anas Sarwar (Labour) Andrew Bowie (Conservative) Thomas Kerr (Reform UK) Shirley-Anne Somerville (SNP) Lesley Riddoch (Journalist & Broadcaster) Venue: St Andrews Shirley-Anne Somerville is the Scrounging Nasty Party [more…]

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