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9th January 2022 SharpieType301 4092 Comments

In these airy-fairy, love-y, care-y days of environmentally friendly practices, lessening one’s consumption and reducing waste is a big thing. One can, should one wish to, signal one’s immense virtue in all sorts of exciting [more…]

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Mystery Album, Part Seventeen

8th January 2022 Always Worth Saying 3543 Comments

Last time on Mystery Album we decided Helsinki Central Station showed the world a particular kind of Art Deco that stamped on some of the movement’s expectations. Purists half agree, preferring it transitionary from Art [more…]

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My Legends of Pop Music – Part Twenty-Six – Gilbert O’Sullivan

7th January 2022 Phil the Ex Test Manager 3400 Comments

If get this right, there will be many cover versions by future bands. I shall try and link live versions if they exist from the tellybox or a film, the sound quality may not be [more…]

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Crimean War, Part Four

6th January 2022 Going Postal 3539 Comments

In 1954, as the centenary of the end of the Crimean War approached, my uncle John Alldridge produced a series of articles for the Manchester Evening News which vividly described that campaign. In this article, [more…]

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Postcard From Kyrgyzstan

5th January 2022 Always Worth Saying 2544 Comments

There’s something I’ve been meaning to tell Swiss Bob but haven’t got round to. Perhaps you could oblige? Next time you bump into him, drop into the conversation that, after two years sitting around on [more…]

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Mystery Album , Part Sixteen

1st January 2022 Always Worth Saying 2987 Comments

Last time on Mystery Album I forgot to tell Puffins that the first Swedish monarch, King Gustav VI Adolph, to be interred at Kungliga Begravningsplatsen and away from Riddarholmen Church (apart from the wayward Christina) [more…]

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My Legends of Pop Music – Part Twenty-Five – Fleetwood Mac

31st December 2021 Phil the Ex Test Manager 3532 Comments

If get this right, there will be many cover versions by future bands. I shall try and link live versions if they exist from the tellybox or a film, the sound quality may not be [more…]

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Crimean War, Part Three

30th December 2021 Going Postal 3586 Comments

In 1954, as the centenary of the end of the Crimean War approached, my uncle John Alldridge produced a series of articles for the Manchester Evening News which vividly described that campaign. In this article, [more…]

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Ghosts of Christmas Past

28th December 2021 Going Postal 3113 Comments

Post War Britain I loved Christmas as a child: I would guess most of us did, but I am amazed and humbled when I look back at how much was achieved with how little by [more…]

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