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My Legends of Pop Music – Part Fifty-Eight – Smokie

2nd September 2022 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

I suspect many of you will know my top three legends of pop music. We are on the countdown now to my most favourite music artists, making them my 3rd most favourite legends of pop [more…]

20th Century

Naples – Front Line Problem City

1st September 2022 Going Postal 0

In March 1944 my uncle John Alldridge visited Naples a few months after it had been liberated and produced this report for the Manchester Evening News. – Jerry F *** War brought disease and desolation [more…]

19th Century

Sabrage, or how to show off at parties

31st August 2022 Going Postal 0

You have all seen old Hollywood movies showing Napoleonic cavalry officers celebrating by cutting the tops off of champagne bottles. The name for this is sabrage. As with most things in movies there is some [more…]

20th Century

Uncle Fred, Edwardian Metropolitan Policeman

30th August 2022 Going Postal 0

Uncle Fred’s Early Life ‘Uncle Fred’, as we all called him, was, in reality, my maternal grandfather’s uncle, and my great great uncle.  He was the only other member of my grandfather’s family I ever [more…]

20th Century

The Desert War – August 1942

29th August 2022 well_chuffed 0

August 80 years ago and although the situation in the desert starts off mostly quiet all hell is breaking out at sea. The Axis are desperate to resupply Rommel and the Allies are equally desperate [more…]

18th Century

Mandatory Vaccines vs. Logic and Kantian Ethics

29th August 2022 Patrick Barron 0

The case in favor of mandatory vaccines rests upon faulty logic and violates ethical principles. A vaccinated person protects himself to the extent of the vaccine’s capability, which may be close to one hundred percent, [more…]

20th Century

Nostalgia Album, Conquering The Long Mountain

27th August 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Col d’Aspin Last time on Nostalgia Album the heroic Ford 8, with a hiccup or two, commenced an odd zig-zag route across the Pyrenees as part of my father and grandparent’s 1952 return journey from [more…]

20th Century

My Legends of Pop Music – Part Fifty-Seven – Darts

26th August 2022 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

I do like good old rock ‘n’ roll.  Happy music, singalong, dance, be merry.  Darts seemed to be on ToTP just about every week, so many happy memories. One of those bands that you just [more…]

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Towers And Lovers

26th August 2022 Going Postal 0

The train from Cartagena is eleven minutes late arriving into Alicante and almost twenty minutes behind schedule by the time it leaves for Zaragoza. Not that anyone minds, it is the way of the things [more…]

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    Ah pure cannae be f**ked wi’ Chrishmas. Brengs back a loadae sh*te memries fae when ah wis a wean. Wha hod f**kin’ hee haw cuz ma da spent aw tha dole money oan drenk an [more...]
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