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GP Update December 2023

3rd December 2023 Swiss Bob 0

Another year and we still haven’t left the EU! plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. Also another year of divide and conquer. It is surprisingly effective. TPTB shout squirrel and many of us [more…]

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Next Stop Jungle Junction

2nd December 2023 Always Worth Saying 0

Following some confusion regarding a caption mentioning both Southsea and Southampton, your humble reviewer of old photographs realised that the 1949 picture in my grandparents’ family album was of a flying boat called Southsea coming [more…]

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Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays: The Clavinet

1st December 2023 Going Postal 0

Greetings pop pickers and welcome to another edition of Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – our occasional Campari and soda drenched probe into the rainbow and glitter world of artistes who are quite simply fabulous darling. This [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

1st December 2023 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 30th November 2023 The Panel: Esther McVey (Conservative) Steve Reed (Labour) Layla Moran (LibDem) Andrew Neil (Journalist) Zoe Lyons (Comedian) Venue: Doncaster As a first appearance on QT in 1985 suggests, Andrew Neil [more…]

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Collapse won’t re-set Society, Part Two

30th November 2023 Going Postal 0

Part One is here. If bureaucracy is resilient, then trade is eternal. Far from being a recent development of modern technology, archeological evidence shows global trade predating the Iron Age. In the 3rd millennium B.C., [more…]

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How to learn guitar

26th November 2023 El Cnutador 0

Spurred on by the feast of music that is FF, your fingers are itching for some axework and you’re ready to pick up that six string and play it ’til your fingers bleed. First, you [more…]

20th Century

Rievaulx Abbey And Robin Hood’s Bay

25th November 2023 Always Worth Saying 0

My grandparents’ and father’s 1935 summer holiday in Redcar allowed for a day trip opportunity to Rievaulx Abbey which sits about the halfway point in the fifty or so miles that separate the North East [more…]

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Throbbing Gristle – DOA The Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle (1978)

24th November 2023 Going Postal 0

In order to understand 1978’s DOA the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle by Throbbing Gristle (Yorkshire slang for, well, a pulsating male member) it’s important to have an understanding of TG and their [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

24th November 2023 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 23rd November 2023 The Panel: Andrew Griffith (Conservative) Alison McGovern (Labour) Patrick Grant (Fashion Designer) Isabel Oakshott (Author and Journalist) Venue: Stevenage Andrew John Griffith is the Conservative Party MP for Arundel and [more…]

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