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A (Burts’ Eye)View From The Greenhouse; What’s Anglo-futurism, When It’s All At Home?

8th July 2025 Colin Cross 1857 Comments

It’s an easy mistake to make, Burt and I (although, TBF, Burt’s a few inches taller than I am) are easily confused when viewed from the rear, bending down (as it were). Any road up, [more…]

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Embers of The Affair, Part Two

6th July 2025 Going Postal 1918 Comments

A la recherche du temps perdu (Proust) There was a time There was a time now long away, when I had peace, a quiet mind, my days were slow, my heartbeat too, those days before [more…]

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Cruising to the Canaries – Part One

6th July 2025 Going Postal 2066 Comments

Day One – Saturday As I have made the Baltic level of the P&O Peninsula Club, I have a few perks on this holiday, one of which is an early boarding time. Today I am [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Railway Review

5th July 2025 Always Worth Saying 1960 Comments

One tires of the streetcars of Paramaribo, the mineral railways of the Amazon, and even of rural Albania in the 1980s. Railway Review’s roving reportage shall change continents and seek excitement (but not too much) [more…]

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The Past is Present, Chapter Thirteen

5th July 2025 Going Postal 2845 Comments

Dave and Sally were down for breakfast at 07:30, He was sure the information he had discovered last night was the clue to the case, his plan was to go straight to Jane Goodley with [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story, Book Eight – Chapter Eighteen

3rd July 2025 Going Postal 2442 Comments

Jinnie had a sense of déjà vu as she stood in Terminal Three arrivals by the exit from the customs hall waiting for Monica to appear, it was not so long ago that she had [more…]

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West Country Rides, Four

1st July 2025 Joe Slater 2183 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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An Old Man’s Musings Part Thirty-Three

29th June 2025 Going Postal 2388 Comments

Interesting reading Never up to the job’s article on digitising family ‘photos, recordings and other memories. A great deal of aechive material to work with. I am at the opposite end of the spectrum as [more…]

Literature

A Homage to Pam Ayres & ‘Surgically enhanced’.

29th June 2025 Going Postal 2486 Comments

I’m goin’ to have a sex-change: I know it’s for the best. I’ll have two smooth, proud, round bosoms, Not a spotty, hairy, chest… So it’s Goodbye, Willy, you must leave me, Slightly sad to [more…]

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    In Africa, generally speaking, museums usually are thin on the ground. Underfunded, poorly maintained (if at all), they often present a version of history barely refreshed since colonial times. Rwanda is an exception. Currently it [more...]
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