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Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred And Fifty

3rd July 2022 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning folks, I hope you noticed that this is my 150th diary entry I am sharing with you. It’s another lovely sunny morning but it’s not quite as warm. No Bozzie at breakfast [more…]

20th Century

Nostalgia Album, Gibraltar Childhood

2nd July 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

At first glance, it would seem unlikely to drive all the way from Carlisle to Gibraltar just to take a photograph of a filling station. Albeit an interesting one which was, as we saw last [more…]

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Crossword No. 225

2nd 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 Crossnumber 224 and a GP mug AR (Contact [more…]

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A visit to Kuala Lumpur

29th June 2022 well_chuffed 0

Back in the 80s and 90s in my IT life I did a lot of work on something called platform migrations. If your eyes haven’t already glazed over imagine taking Windoze programs and automatically converting [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse, A “Mini” Postcard, The Right To Choose

28th June 2022 Colin Cross 0

I never enter the greenhouse these days without at least a sense of trepidation. The worst’s over, that much is clear and those plants which haven’t been totally ruined, even if they aren’t looking as [more…]

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More Artwork 2022, Part One

27th June 2022 Going Postal 0

It’s been several months since my last artwork article and I thought I would respond to SB’s request for more articles by submitting an update on latest purchases etc.  Hope you enjoy it. You may [more…]

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Messing about in boats

27th June 2022 Godfrey Bloom 0

Believe me my young friend there is nothing,  absolutely nothing, half as much worth doing as simply messing about in boats (Ratty to Mole, Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows) I first started messing [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Forty Nine

26th June 2022 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning folks, it started off sunny and warm this morning but as I dictate this it is clouding up. Bozzie is in fine fettle this morning, his spies tell him that Stoma is [more…]

20th Century

Nostalgia Album, Journey’s End

25th June 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

As every schoolboy knows, off the southern coast of the province of Cadiz the 3rd August 1704 ended briskly as Sir George Rooke’s fleet bombarded the Spanish isthmus of Gibraltar. The following morning, 1,900 English [more…]

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