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Bash 2025 Report

3rd July 2025 Swiss Bob 2623 Comments

The site has changed under the new owner. Perhaps not quite as bucolic but it’s good to see the place busy and hopefully making money because the alternative would likely be another housing estate. Things [more…]

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Despite claims of a cover-up that cost Archbishop of Canterbury Welby his job, close to the time of the scandalous behaviour of Evangelical Christian barrister John Smyth, the following appeared in the February 1989 biography [more…]

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Fabulously Flamboyant Friday – A Postcard From Cannes

27th June 2025 Going Postal 2295 Comments

Welcome back my friends to the flamboyance that never ends, as Fabulously Flamboyant Friday sashays up to the crease to deliver yet another light-loafered, lubed-up googly from the gasworks-end of musical magnificence. This week’s missive [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

27th June 2025 Always Worth Saying 2209 Comments

Question Time 26th June 2025 The Panel: Anas Sarwar (Labour) Andrew Bowie (Conservative) Thomas Kerr (Reform UK) Shirley-Anne Somerville (SNP) Lesley Riddoch (Journalist & Broadcaster) Venue: St Andrews Shirley-Anne Somerville is the Scrounging Nasty Party [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story, Book Eight – Chapter Seventeen

26th June 2025 Going Postal 2399 Comments

Two weeks after briefing Brooke and Brian on her plan to expand into Florida, Jinnie was on her way home from a day in Crawley where she had been catching up on SuperBurger and DKL [more…]

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25th June 2025 Swiss Bob 2549 Comments

It will be a decent crowd with a mix of old hands and newbies. Be gentle with them. We normally do a whip round for Saturday morning booze and food shopping. £10-£15 if you’re not [more…]

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Embers of The Affair, Part One

22nd June 2025 Going Postal 4572 Comments

This is a recollection, in verse, of one of the most momentous periods in my life. But first – a tribute from me to all the lovely GP Laydees: And have you now, and will [more…]

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Changed Times?

21st June 2025 Always Worth Saying 2221 Comments

John Smyth was a Canadian-born British barrister and Christian evangelist born in 1941. Son of Colonel Edward Smyth, after prep school in Canada and public school in England, he completed his education at Trinity Hall, [more…]

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The History of Pop Music – 1980

20th June 2025 Phil the Ex Test Manager 2727 Comments

Featured song: Blondie – Call me 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 it.  One [more…]

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