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Larry’s Diary – Week Two Hundred And Thirty-Three

5th May 2024 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning readers and hello from your favourite cat reporter. My feeder was a little late this morning, apparently there was a problem on her Tube line. Anyway, to make up for being late [more…]

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The Death Railway, Part Five

1st May 2024 Going Postal 0

David Lean’s 1957 film depicted the bridge as a significant timber structure located in the deep jungle, spanning a narrow river featuring rocks and rapids. This is of course a work of fiction and was [more…]

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A View From (Quite Near To) The Greenhouse; All Change, For More Of The Same

30th April 2024 Colin Cross 0

I may have mentioned, last time around, that the sheep are returned from their winter sojourn on the hills surrounding Patterdale and Glenridding. As yet we have only hogget in the back field, so the [more…]

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Larry’s Diary – Week Two Hundred And Thirty-Two

28th April 2024 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning readers and welcome to another week of my ramblings. And it is another horrible wet morning, quite a change from what was a lovely weekend. I did hope that spring had arrived. [more…]

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The Death Railway, Part Four

24th April 2024 Going Postal 0

Step forward to the present day; SWMBO and I have been visiting Thailand for many years and decided it was time to head out to the Death Railway as Grandad Humbug had been in Burma [more…]

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Larry’s Diary – Week Two Hundred And Thirty-One

21st April 2024 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning readers it’s a rather pleasant morning mild and a bit of sunshine but it’s going to rain again later. I enjoyed my trip down the garden in the sun and found a [more…]

20th Century

The Death Railway, Part Three

17th April 2024 Going Postal 0

Railway Construction Initially, the railway construction schedule allowed reasonable working conditions to be imposed on the POWs who, at that time, formed the majority of the skilled workforce. This combined with the fact that the [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse; Doctors, Architects, Aspiring DJ’s

16th April 2024 Colin Cross 0

They keep turning up, farm implements of indeterminate age, mostly bladed and mostly without shafts. It seems unlikely that his particular scimitar like implement is either a sickle or scythe; I’m guessing it had a [more…]

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Larry’s Diary – Week Two Hundred And Thirty

14th April 2024 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning friends, and a happy Easter Monday to you. It is also April Fool’s Day. I promise you I will not be telling you any April Fools Day’s stories, at least not deliberately. [more…]

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