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The Swaling, Part Fifty Four
Myself and my colleague Captain Davis are in the constituency office of Sleescale MP, Major Sir Fergus McDee MC. He is standing at the window facing into the room, eying us up. His secretary, Miss [more…]
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20th Century
A History of Pop Music Albums – 1990
A History of Pop Music Albums – 1990 Featured Album: The Very Best of Elton John This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. I [more…]
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 6th May 2021 Panel: Robert Jenrick (Conservative) Thangham Debbonaire (Labour) Hugh Osmond (Businessman) Deborah Frances-White (Media professional) John Bercow (Former Commons Speaker) Venue: London Dominic Lawson, Wilfred Emmanuel Jones’ agent, Gal Dem (the [more…]
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Memories of Japan, Centre Point to Osaka
In 1985 I worked for Mitsubishi Electric and that gave me the privilege of visiting Japan three times and getting to know something of the Japanese working and business psyche. It introduced me to Japanese [more…]
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Postcard from Romania – Part One
Almost the first question we are asked whenever we mention that we’ve visited Romania on several occasions is ‘why on earth would you want to go there’? That’s often followed by ‘isn’t it really poor [more…]
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Gardening In A Pandemic (A Seaside Break)
Everything in the garden being as rosy as it could be for the time of year, and our glorious leaders deigning to allow us the limited freedom to widen our small horizons, we decided we [more…]
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Puffin’s Day Out
April 24th Lockdown Protest Well done to everyone who made it last Saturday. It was a real pleasure to see you all and get out of the house for the day. Thank you to those [more…]
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The Swaling, Part Fifty Three
Myself and Davies are sat in the local MPs surgery waiting room in Sleescale. In one of the better parts of the town, outside are cobbled streets where old gas lights stand redundant next to [more…]
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The Year Turns, part 5
Beltane This important festival has been reinvented umpteen times throughout the ages. I knew it from childhood as May Day. On a couple of occasions while at primary school our class was forced to dance [more…]