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The History of Pop Music – 1978

23rd May 2025 Phil the Ex Test Manager 2326 Comments

Featured song: ELO – Mr Blue Sky 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. [more…]

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Beautiful Kashmir

21st May 2025 Always Worth Saying 2752 Comments

Never travel to a country that’s a funny colour on the map, or worse still, described by different coloured diagonal lines. Disputed territory is not only the cartographer’s nightmare, but also that of the traveller.
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Book Review: Concorde by Mike Bannister

19th May 2025 Going Postal 2071 Comments

Introduction In response to Swiss Bob’s lack of articles, I have dashed this out, instead of a fuller version I had planned.  In short, I heartily recommend Mike Bannister’s book ‘Concorde’, which I listened to [more…]

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The Eurovision Song Contest 2025 – The Grand Final

17th May 2025 Going Postal 2528 Comments

Don your taffeta and sequinned best, pull on your bondage trousers, lube up your leather chaps and please be welcome to the annual festival of flounce and flamboyance that we all know and love as [more…]

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Desert Mystery: Cartoons on a wall

14th May 2025 Going Postal 1965 Comments

Recently, I acquired a set of wartime photographs sourced from a militaria dealer in Munich. The photographs are of cartoons hand-drawn across the whitewashed walls of a room. The style is typical of that seen [more…]

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A View From (Brougham Hall) Quite Near The Greenhouse; Was It All Worth It?

13th May 2025 Colin Cross 2336 Comments

I don’t doubt that my long suffering reader will have had a similar conversation to the one I had some days ago with Mrs. C. It went something like this; “Er, Colin, are there any [more…]

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The History of Pop Music – 1977

9th May 2025 Phil the Ex Test Manager 2899 Comments

Featured song: Eagles – Hotel California 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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On this day, 1945

8th May 2025 Going Postal 2409 Comments

On this day 80 years ago, the Allied powers accepted Germany’s unconditional surrender, bringing an official end to World War II in Europe. We in the U.K. celebrate 8 May as Victory in Europe Day, [more…]

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In the Graveyard of St Nicholas, Moreton

7th May 2025 Going Postal 2383 Comments

During a visit to the Tank Museum at Bovington Camp, Dorset, with my daughter, we decided first to go to the graveyard of the Church of St Nicholas in the village of Moreton in the [more…]

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