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Gary Lineker: Parallel Lives

7th June 2025 Always Worth Saying 2523 Comments

I only saw Gary Lineker play once. Our local eleven were away to Leicester City in a fourth-round FA Cup tie. This was 1985 – a mere 40 years ago. The game ended in a [more…]

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Postcard From Birmingham, Part Five

21st September 2024 Always Worth Saying 1639 Comments

There are two schools of thought, volunteer for everything, never volunteer for anything. I knew a chap sent to the South Atlantic. At Mount Pleasant airfield in what the Guinness Book of Records describes as [more…]

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About Little Women

23rd August 2024 Always Worth Saying 2517 Comments

We play a game at work with girls’ heights. There is a reason for this. Colleagues are going to build a tunnel to the shop next door and steal their toys. To confuse the local [more…]

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How to fit convert an old pedal bike to electric

25th March 2024 Going Postal 2345 Comments

How to fit convert an old pedal bike to electric I’ve been keen on getting an electric bike for some time now. I used to do quite a bit of off-roading, but with advancing years, [more…]

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No More Heroes Any More?

25th January 2024 Going Postal 2662 Comments

The recent death of JPR spurred me on to complete an article I started a few months ago on the subject of childhood heroes.  I know for many JPR was a proper hero in the [more…]

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This Sporting Life – Chapter 6

15th September 2023 Going Postal 2460 Comments

Introduction So, my short series of articles on the nags ends where it began, at Doncaster Racecourse.  In the first Chapter, you may recall I set out how my passion for horse racing began on [more…]

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In Praise of the Naughty Girls

3rd July 2023 Always Worth Saying 2959 Comments

The news sent me scurrying to the attic to fumble in the dark with my watawat (behave yourselves). With girls’ football and Wendyball now equivalent in every way, the crafty chaps at association football’s governing [more…]

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This Sporting Life – Chapter 5

3rd June 2023 Going Postal 2508 Comments

The Epsom Derby Today sees the 244th running of the Derby Stakes run on the famous Epsom Downs in Surrey, with the thirteen runners guaranteed to make it a highly competitive renewal. The Derby is [more…]

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This Sporting Life – Chapter 4

5th May 2023 Going Postal 1644 Comments

Firstly, I hoped you thoroughly enjoyed my first few articles covering the two key national hunt festivals in the UK. Now that the dust has settled on the recent Aintree Grand National and a belated [more…]

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