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Mystery Album, Part Nineteen

22nd January 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Having visited Helsinki Central Station, nearby shopping streets and the cathedral, our mystery family will have made their way back to the ferry at Satama, pausing to have their photograph taken beside the distinctive dockside [more…]

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Going Postal Saturday Puzzles Number 204

22nd January 2022 Going Postal 0

SOD-YOU-KO Word Search First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a mystery prize! Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Friday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 203 and a mystery [more…]

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Sailing my life away, part 32

18th January 2022 Ancient Mariner 0

RESPONSES AND YARNS There were loads of comments on part 31 including the one from Sparks who enquired whether I had discovered a time machine as I had dated the article Saturday 1 January 2002. [more…]

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Sparklets Soda Syphons of The ’60s & ’70s

17th January 2022 Going Postal 0

The Beginning If society ever collapses to the point where I’m judged to be a suitable contestant on Mastermind, my specialist subject will be ‘Sparklets’ soda syphons of the 1960s and 70s’. I’ve been fascinated [more…]

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Another Caribbean Christmas, Part One

17th January 2022 Going Postal 0

I have been looking forward to getting back on board a cruise ship for some time now. Covid has caused the cancellation of 3 cruises for me so far (June 2020, Christmas 2020 and June [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred And Twenty Six

16th January 2022 Going Postal 0

Monday Morning everyone, I understand that I have to make the most of the next few days as my scribe is going to be missing for a bit, so this weeks diary may be truncated. [more…]

20th Century

Mystery Album, Part Eighteen

15th January 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

From Helsinki Central Station, a five-minute walk takes one past the Ateneum and along Ateneuminkuja and Yliopistonatu to Senate Square, at the north end of which and up some steps sits Helsinki Cathedral. Billed as [more…]

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Going Postal Saturday Puzzles Number 203

15th January 2022 Going Postal 0

SOD-YOU-KO Word Search First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a mystery prize! Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Friday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 202 and a Christmas [more…]

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Agricultural Anoraks Anonymous

12th January 2022 Columba Palumbus 0

Growing up on a farm and later working in agriculture and related industries (on and off at least), ive spent a lot of time in Tractors, combines, telehandlers and other sundry farm machines. I freely [more…]

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