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Crossword No. 176

26th June 2021 Going Postal 0

First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a choice of GP authored book. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 175 and a GP [more…]

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Postcard From Kanchanaburi

24th June 2021 Going Postal 0

In the now forgotten days when human beings were still allowed to show their faces and set foot out of the house rather than get fat on furlough, soon to become Universal Basic Income followed [more…]

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Cnuteneering, Part Twenty One

24th June 2021 El Cnutador 0

Welcome back to Cnuteneering, where the possible is made more difficult by bone headed ignorance, overenthusiasm and pointy metal things being brought together. You may want to refresh your memory on the project in: Part [more…]

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Sailing my life away, Part 17

22nd June 2021 Ancient Mariner 0

PIRACY – 1 I have promised to write something about piracy in the form of shortish mini-essays embedded within articles about my sailing life.   Here’s my first effort. The word piracy and its associated [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Ninety-Eight

20th June 2021 Going Postal 0

Monday Morning all and welcome to another week of all my little stories. Firstly though I thought it was going to be nice today, but it’s a bit grey first thing. I was reading about [more…]

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Crossword No. 175

19th June 2021 Going Postal 0

First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a GP mug. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 174 and a GP mug Glazinova (Contact [more…]

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Cnuteneering, Part Twenty

17th June 2021 El Cnutador 0

Welcome back to Cnuteneering, where the possible is made more difficult by bone headed ignorance, overenthusiasm and pointy metal things being brought together. You may want to refresh your memory on the project in: Part [more…]

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Another Perfect Weekend

16th June 2021 Going Postal 0

I wrote recently about the perfect weekend I enjoyed with my son when he had to get up North to join the rest of his band to play at the 2017 Workington Festival. Writing it [more…]

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Veg Growing In A Pandemic (Is Enough Ever Enough)

15th June 2021 Colin Cross 0

Firstly, let’s get something out of the way. I never was a violent man. Even in my youth, when a “scrap” was seen as a rite of passage, I did my level best to avoid [more…]

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