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Postcard From Latina

28th April 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

If one, parent’s night, your daughter’s Italian teacher tells you Latina is the ugliest city in Italy and adds in a whisper, “And then there’s Mousillini”, don’t agree with her until you’ve visited. Situated on [more…]

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Erich Bachem – an engineer years ahead of his time (i)

25th April 2022 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction In common with many boys who like me were fortunate enough to grow up in the 1950s and 1960s, I spent much of my spare time building and flying Keil Kraft balsawood & tissue [more…]

20th Century

Nostalgia Album, Part Twelve

23rd April 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

As we discovered last time on Nostalgia Album, Malta is short of trees. Although my father’s cousin, Anne, and her parents Bob and Lil along with some Navy friends, did find some rare shade when [more…]

20th Century

My Legends of Pop Music – Part Forty – Dire Straits

22nd April 2022 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

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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The Board Now Departing

22nd April 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

The truck now leaving a back lane behind your local railway station may well be removing the mangled remains of a giant departure board. Why so? Because they’re being replaced, and by creatures not even [more…]

20th Century

The Woman Reporter, Part One

21st April 2022 Going Postal 0

Another chapter from “Special Assignment” by my uncle John Alldridge (published in 1960 and now long out of print) No Half-Way For Ladies When I got my first job on a newspaper twenty-five years ago [more…]

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A Postcard Frae Glesgae

19th April 2022 Colin Cross 0

Over the last few weeks I’ve had occasion to visit Glasgow on two occasions, one for an overnight stay and the second time primarily to visit Kelvingrove Museum and Gallery. The happy circumstance of my [more…]

20th Century

Nostalgia Album, Part Eleven

16th April 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Last time on Nostalgia Album we visited the coast at Malta’s Ghajn Tuffieha. Pictured on the road nearby is my father’s cousin, Anne, at the front, with her parents Lil and Bob standing behind her, [more…]

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The Desert War – April 1942

14th April 2022 well_chuffed 0

April 1942, another month where nothing much seemed to be happening in the desert, the same can’t be said of the sea and air campaigns. On the first of the month Churchill spoke with FDR [more…]

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