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Gary Lineker: Parallel Lives

7th June 2025 Always Worth Saying 2529 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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The History of Pop Music – 1979

6th June 2025 Phil the Ex Test Manager 2229 Comments

Featured song: Pink Floyd – Another Brick In The Wall – Live This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 [more…]

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The Wehrpass of Ferdinand Friedrich Karl Ruhmann

4th June 2025 Going Postal 2128 Comments

In WW2, a Wehrpass contained the personal and service information of a Wehrmacht volunteer or conscript and was used for identification and recording purposes. Issued when registered for military service, it was kept by the [more…]

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Fabulously Flamboyant Friday – TISWAS

30th May 2025 Going Postal 1988 Comments

Welcome back my friends, to the flamboyance that never ends, as Fabulously Flamboyant Friday glides effortlessly across the crease to deliver yet another groin-polished googly from the gasworks end of musical magnificence. Tonight we consider [more…]

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My dad and the Canadians

29th May 2025 well_chuffed 2716 Comments

King Sausage Fingers opening the Canadian Parliament inspires me to write a few words about the Canucks. Charlie boy opening the Canadian Parliament as their head of state was a a powerful image and a [more…]

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Is there life on (somewhere other than) Mars?

26th May 2025 Northern Man 3274 Comments

Once upon a time we knew our place in the universe.  The science was settled and the experts agreed.  The Earth was at the centre of the universe and everything we could see in the [more…]

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Big Boys’ Rules

24th May 2025 Always Worth Saying 1740 Comments

In yet another BBC documentary on the subject, a Panorama edition entitled Special Forces: I Saw War Crimes dropped on 12th May and investigated serious allegations against UK Special Forces, in particular the SAS and [more…]

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The History of Pop Music – 1978

23rd May 2025 Phil the Ex Test Manager 2328 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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Warfare – Snake style

22nd May 2025 Rookwood 2343 Comments

Puffins that have their ears to the ground (or is it ears to the clouds?) will no doubt be aware of the excellent series of lectures by David Betz which very convincingly argues that we [more…]

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