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

27th July 2025 Going Postal 1431 Comments

Monday Good morning all my lovely readers, there’s a bit of a change in weather this morning here in London. It is not so hot, although pleasantly warm, and there is more cloud around. I [more…]

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The Past is Present, Chapter Sixteen

26th July 2025 Going Postal 2758 Comments

Out of the Home Office, they stood on the pavement. “Dave, they want you, what are you going to do?” “I will help them all I can, our home is in Loughborough, I’m not moving, [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story, Book Eight – Chapter Twenty-One

24th July 2025 Going Postal 3055 Comments

Over the next few days, loan staff started to arrive in Tampa as they got their visa applications approved. Jed and Ro arrived two days after Monica had collected her Range Rover and got the [more…]

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Postcard from Thailand Part II

23rd July 2025 Going Postal 2591 Comments

04-05 January We had left Heathrow on 2nd January, arriving in Bangkok in the afternoon of the 3rd – our first full day in Thailand would therefore be the 4th which just so happened to [more…]

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An (Algaes’ Eye) View From The Greenhouse; An Civil Society….Innit?

22nd July 2025 Colin Cross 2607 Comments

I may have mentioned (I could check back, but I can’t be bothered) that we had an early harvest of small, not very tasty and far from sweet strawberries, following the early warm spell back [more…]

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Cruising to the Canaries – Part Three

21st July 2025 Going Postal 1985 Comments

Day 10 – Monday, at sea I awoke just after six thirty to scattered cloud and a bit of movement. We are on a fast run for this ship, about 20 knots, to Cadiz for [more…]

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Embers of The Affair, Part Three

20th July 2025 Going Postal 1941 Comments

A la recherche du temps perdu (Proust) Together again Lightly falling, sunlight drawing Motes that dance and hue the air Shafts of colour, space and lightness, Draw me to you point the stair. Ah your [more…]

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

20th July 2025 Going Postal 2409 Comments

Monday Good morning all, it was very wet in London when I hurried down the garden this morning. I was delighted to find Felix Chicken in my bowl when I got back. I hear that [more…]

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Pen Portrait: Sir Alex Younger, Former Head of MI6

19th July 2025 Always Worth Saying 2036 Comments

A friend tells me that during their first interview, a candidate for the Intelligence Branch of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) is informed the job involves ‘getting the hang’ of people of interest. The hopeful [more…]

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