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A Postcard From a Mediterranean Cruise – Part Three
Day 4 – Wednesday 29th June 2022 – At sea I woke up and struggled to focus on my little clock, 07:30, late for me as I like to breakfast at 8 o’clock. Anyway I [more…]
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Set in Stone
This tale begins, as so many tales do, on a dismal winter’s day. This particular day, a miserably chilly and grey February one, was a decidedly rubbish day. Not only had Mr S and I [more…]
20th Century
Nostalia Album, Heading Home
Malaga to Motril and Beyond Having made an heroic 1952 journey from Carlisle to Gibraltar in a Ford 8 in order to visit Aunt Lil, Uncle Rob and cousin Anne, my father and grandparents set [more…]
20th Century
My Legends of Pop Music – Part Fifty-Three – Kevin Bloody Wilson
(Warning – contains filthy foul language, not suitable for playing at work, or where there are children or snowflakes around) If get this right, there will be many cover versions by future bands. I shall [more…]
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Long memories at Clashanimud
We are often now asked to believe that European countries have no culture, or even any connection to their own pasts – that they are all lands of immigrants, blank sheets on which anything can [more…]
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A Postcard From a Mediterranean Cruise – Part Two
Day -1 – Saturday 25th June ’22 Today I have a few little jobs to do before I am ready for my drive to Southampton tomorrow morning and my cruise, nothing too taxing but if [more…]
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A View From The Greenhouse; An Veritable Wall Of Stone, Innit?
I’ve been enduring enforced “bachelorhood” this week, as Mrs. C, unwisely a it turns out, has accompanied daughter number two on short visit to Canada, where she’s a bridesmaid for a friend she met whilst [more…]
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Always Worth Saying’s Tory Leadership Debate Review
Leadershiop Debate 25th July 2022 Contenders: Rishi Sunak Liz Truss Venue: Stoke-on-Trent Monday saw the first televised leadership clash in a disappointing Tory leadership contest that has seen the number of contestants reduced to the [more…]
20th Century
Nostalgia Album, Joining The Team
November 1963 Last week I invited Puffins to guess, in unread comments below the unread article, what course my father’s cousin Anne may have plotted when, aged only 26, she lost both of her parents [more…]