Going Postal
Arts
20th Century
The History of Pop Music – 1987
Featured song: Freddie Mercury – The Great Pretender 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 [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 25th September 2025 The Panel: Lisa Nandy (Labour) Luke Evans (Conservative) Munira Wilson (Liberal Democrat) Richard Tice (Reform UK) Billy Bragg (Musician and activist) Venue: Bedworth Lisa Nandy is on Question Time too [more…]
Arts
Jinnie’s Story, Book Eight – Chapter Thirty
Clara escorted Jinnie down to reception in the Executive lift and then back up to Mission Planning in one of the standard lifts. Clara said, “I hear you once ran this department.” “Yes, that was [more…]
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Ocean-to-Ocean, Part 3
Well, the big day has arrived. The neighbour has been asked to keep an eye on the OLND, water turned-off, fridge & freezer emptied and defrosted, bit of oil poured down the sink traps to [more…]
Culture
Of Gods And Terminuses
We’re at the front of the queue on platform one in the concrete trench that is Euston terminus, tipped off early by the steward in the first-class lounge as to which platform we’d be departing [more…]
Arts
Fabulously Flamboyant Friday: When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth Pt. 2 – Canterbury
Welcome back my friends to the flamboyance that never ends, as Fabulously Flamboyant Friday sashays up to the crease to deliver yet another groin-polished googly from the gasworks-end of musical magnificence. I’m afraid, dear reader, [more…]
Arts
Jinnie’s Story, Book Eight – Chapter Twenty-Nine
As always, Larry was waiting for the family to come in the front door, and was all over them the second they walked in. Of course, he had a pecking order, it was Jinnie first, [more…]
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Ocean-to-Ocean, Part 2
Readers will recall from Part 1 that, for my retirement trip, I had decided to sail across to the eastern seaboard of the US and then travel across to the other side of the continent, [more…]