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

18th May 2025 Going Postal 2063 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 1991 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 2384 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 2572 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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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Eighty

11th May 2025 Going Postal 2255 Comments

Monday Good morning on this beautiful Monday morning. When I went for my pre-breakfast poo it was wonderfully sunny and warm. For a change, I got back before my feeder arrived and, after saying hello [more…]

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West Country Rides, One

6th May 2025 Joe Slater 2707 Comments

It takes a week to cycle from Penzance to Berwick. It took me 40 years. Because on the way, I wanted to include every town in England, in what amounted to some two years of [more…]

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Larry’s diary, Week Two Hundred And Seventy Nine

4th May 2025 Going Postal 2444 Comments

Monday Good morning on this Bank Holiday Monday. It is nice and quiet here in Number Ten with only a small crew on. The girl who was on feeding duty this morning was not very [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Railway Review

2nd May 2025 Always Worth Saying 3369 Comments

Apologies for last week’s Railway Review, which was far too populist. An article on a mineral railway in Northern Brazil is exactly the type of thing you might read about in a 1960s edition of [more…]

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On Greenlaning

1st May 2025 Going Postal 2442 Comments

Greenlaning, the driving of motorised vehicles on the approximately 6,000 miles of tracks, paths and byways with legal rights of way in England & Wales, can be understandably controversial. This article will not explore the [more…]

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