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Playing With Electricity – Part 1

28th May 2025 Doc Mike Finnley 1860 Comments

Sponsored Introduction – SPAD Report Sir Montague Snoddgrass KC the special advisor to the Prime Minister’s Secretary’s budgie, Fred, has replaced his cleaner with a newer model. The old one, Elsie Dustall sucked-up one of [more…]

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A View From (The Shed By) The Greenhouse; The Great Betrayal(s)

27th May 2025 Colin Cross 1780 Comments

My loyal reader may remember an article I published, funnily enough, in May 2022 when I wrote about my encounter with a fellow in Bath and my resultant (and still current) flirtation with herbalism. I [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Eighty-Two

25th May 2025 Going Postal 2311 Comments

Monday Good morning, my happy readers. It’s a bit cloudy this morning and I see, according to the forecast, it’s going to rain in London later this morning. Legohead held a presser this morning to [more…]

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The Shiba Inu, as a dog

21st May 2025 Going Postal 2290 Comments

This little Japanese breed is all over the internet with its cute face and happy vibes. Think “doge”…that dog. I’ve owned them before they were cool, and still own two, and know of another 5 [more…]

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21st May 2025 Always Worth Saying 2772 Comments

Never travel to a country that’s a funny colour on the map, or worse still, described by different coloured diagonal lines. Disputed territory is not only the cartographer’s nightmare, but also that of the traveller.
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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Eighty-One

18th May 2025 Going Postal 2074 Comments

Monday Good morning, happy readers, from a sunny but chilly early morning London, where I am happy to see Liebore has learnt nothing from last week’s election, and its representatives on the Sunday morning political [more…]

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Desert Mystery: Cartoons on a wall

14th May 2025 Going Postal 1998 Comments

Recently, I acquired a set of wartime photographs sourced from a militaria dealer in Munich. The photographs are of cartoons hand-drawn across the whitewashed walls of a room. The style is typical of that seen [more…]

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A View From (Brougham Hall) Quite Near The Greenhouse; Was It All Worth It?

13th May 2025 Colin Cross 2390 Comments

I don’t doubt that my long suffering reader will have had a similar conversation to the one I had some days ago with Mrs. C. It went something like this; “Er, Colin, are there any [more…]

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The Last Unwrecked Market Town?

13th May 2025 Godfrey Bloom 2576 Comments

Excuse the provocative title, I know there are a few others left but let me flesh out my view, I have been fortunate to have travelled much of the world on business which has meant [more…]

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