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From Tangible to Digital: The Shift from Physical to Virtual Media

18th November 2025 Going Postal 0

In the past few decades, we’ve witnessed a profound transformation in how we create, share, and preserve our memories and communications. The digital revolution has reshaped the landscape of human expression, moving us from the [more…]

20th Century

On this day – 30th September 1955

30th September 2025 Going Postal 0

Do famous people who die before their time have a disproportionate impact on popular culture ? This theory is certainly borne out by the resonance that James Dean has had in the decades since his [more…]

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Star Trek Continues – Web Series Review, Part 1

9th September 2025 Going Postal 0

I have fond memories of sitting on the sofa next to my dad in the mid-1970s watching Star Trek on BBC 1 on a Saturday evening.  I would have been about 6 or 7 at [more…]

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The cult of victimhood

16th July 2025 Going Postal 0

It has recently emerged that Raynor Winn (NHRN), whose trip with her husband Moth (also NHRN) along the SW Coastal Path inspired her book ‘The Salt Path’ (followed by the film of the same name [more…]

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Digitising Old Cine Films

7th July 2025 NeverUpToTheJob 0

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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A View From The Greenhouse; Reflections

18th February 2025 Colin Cross 0

As expected (once DJT got his feet back under the table), it became more than a possibility that the war in Ukraine could be brought to a conclusion of sorts. It may not bring the [more…]

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Briefs Encounter – A reappraisal

10th February 2025 Going Postal 0

After a chance meeting on a train platform, a married doctor (Trevor Howard) and a suburban housewife (Celia Johnson) enter into a muted but passionate, and ultimately doomed, love affair. With its evocatively fog-enshrouded setting, [more…]

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Film Review : The Leopard

21st October 2024 Going Postal 0

Luchino Visconti’s masterpiece is his 1963 historical epic The Leopard (Il Gattopardo, which – pendant alert – actually refers to a smaller spotted wild cat, the serval – the heraldic animal of the Princes of [more…]

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A true Beauty – The Depth and Limits of Alain Delon

16th October 2024 Going Postal 0

Forgive me, Puffins. I know he’s French. And an Actor. But I’d like to talk about Alain Delon’s face for a minute. In truth, it’s hard not to. Certainly, in the early years of his [more…]

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