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Elementary, my dear Watson – Br Bromine

4th April 2023 SharpieType301 2409 Comments

By now, you should be getting quite familiar with some of the fascinating titbits of information it’s possible to unearth (pun intended) about elements. In previous articles, we’ve explored the development of the Periodic Table [more…]

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This Is My England – Part Six

2nd April 2023 Going Postal 1908 Comments

Kent used to be called “the Garden of England.” Perhaps it still is. The garden itself is still there — a mass of snowy blossom just now; but since I last saw it the great [more…]

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Along The Cote d’Azur

1st April 2023 Always Worth Saying 2049 Comments

Cannes Having pestered the French Air Force at Istres last time, this time we’re striking out from there along the Cote d’Azur in diréction Cannes. Above we see the fishing port side of the town [more…]

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Day of the Rangers

29th March 2023 Going Postal 3157 Comments

Independent journalists and non-UN aid workers had already done enough to discredit the approach taken under Operation Restore Hope and so were treated by the US-UN as “the enemy”. Throughout Somalia’s “peacekeeping war”, independent journalists [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse; Eid Mubarak, Suckers

28th March 2023 Colin Cross 2304 Comments

Along with every other part of the country we’ve had a bit of “Man Climate Change Made Warming Cool Global” weather over the last couple of weeks or so, (more of which later) which has [more…]

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Role Reversal

28th March 2023 Patrick Barron 2852 Comments

Starting around 1989 the Soviet empire started to crumble. The time period between the forming of NATO in the late 1940’s and the retreat of Russia from Eastern Europe and the eventual collapse of communism [more…]

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This Is My England – Part Five

26th March 2023 Going Postal 2332 Comments

If you want to see what a profound and lasting impression the war has left on the face of rural England you should make a point of travelling over that stretch of road that links [more…]

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A River Runs Through It

25th March 2023 Always Worth Saying 2014 Comments

Le Train Bleu Last time we teased that we were arriving at a quayside in Ostend to connect with the Istanbul Express as if Graham Greene’s characters in Stamboul Train. My grandparents’ Ford Prefect was [more…]

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Keystone Cops And 12th July

22nd March 2023 Going Postal 3057 Comments

Relief work had been halted overnight following the death of the Pakistanis. UN [read US] commanders tipped off aid agencies a “massive strike” would be carried out sometime in the next two days, imploring them [more…]

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