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Crossword No. 228

23rd July 2022 Going Postal 0

First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a book of your choice (subject to T&Cs) Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Friday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 227 and [more…]

A Postcard From a Mediterranean Cruise – Part 1

17th July 2022 Going Postal 0

I so enjoyed my Christmas fly cruise to the Caribbean that a week or so after coming home I made my mind up to book one for Christmas 22/23. I like the Englishness of a [more…]

Nostalgia Album, A New Posting

16th July 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Fair Winds And a Following Sea This time on Nostalgia Album we are enjoying a new posting to a place where the White Ensign no longer flies. If in last week’s unread comments below the [more…]

Crossword No. 227

16th July 2022 Going Postal 0

First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a GP mug Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Friday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 226 and a GP mug CG (Contact [more…]

A View From The Greenhouse (End Of The World, innit?)

12th July 2022 Colin Cross 0

It hardly seems like two minutes since I was writing my last meandering offering and here we are again. It came to my attention, a couple of weeks ago, that I’d never fully installed the [more…]

Stewed apple(s) – Cooking for numpties and the terminally depressed

11th July 2022 Going Postal 0

You need: One apple, even one that’s sligtly bruised, or more than one apple if you’re flush.. Do not accept apples from passing strangers, especially if they’re old women with warts. I cannae be held [more…]

Nostalgia Album, Seville

9th July 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Las Dos Infantas Elegantes Last time on Nostalia Album we left my father’s cousin, Anne, beaming on the quarry spoil of a Gibraltar beach. She was 15 and thriving in the crown colony, benefitting from [more…]

Crossword No. 226

9th July 2022 Going Postal 0

First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a GP mug Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Friday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 225 and a GP mug FJ (Contact [more…]

Sailing my life away (II), part 3

5th July 2022 Ancient Mariner 0

I have seen SB’s notice he is running short of articles again and have difficulty doing what I promised last time because I’m still on my land voyage by caravan. I don’t have all my [more…]