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The Swaling, Part Twenty Three

3rd October 2020 Always Worth Saying 3723 Comments

Singapore. Forward Singapore! Everybody’s favourite piece of squashed diamond real estate, 31 miles by 17 miles, lies fashionably 200 miles south-east of Kuala Lumpur and 70 north of Sumatra. Here Malays, Chinese, South Asians, and [more…]

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The Swaling, Part Twenty Two

26th September 2020 Always Worth Saying 3637 Comments

By the time I’d returned to my room, paddling up the dripping steps, Emile had curled up on her end of my bed and had fallen asleep. Wept herself to sleep even, after overhearing me [more…]

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The Swaling, Part Twenty One

19th September 2020 Always Worth Saying 3070 Comments

Our night of espionage, from my modest accommodations near to the notorious wall at Tangiers docks, had been cancelled. A much reduced number of comings and goings would pass unnoticed. The Gods of weather were [more…]

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The Lost Airman – Part Two

14th September 2020 Going Postal 3591 Comments

At Chelsfield, local folk were well aware that a Hurricane had plunged from the sky above them on that sun-kissed Sunday afternoon of 1 September during an intense and frightening period of activity that shook [more…]

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The Swaling, Part Twenty

12th September 2020 Always Worth Saying 2948 Comments

Myself and my duplicitous American colleague, Tammy, are in Tangiers. Becoming a familiar sight about the port, we are starting to attract the attention of a Tangier set. A semi-anonymous caller, passing as a ‘Mr [more…]

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Ecclesiastes

8th September 2020 Going Postal 3838 Comments

“Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.” Ecclesiastes- 7:10 When we arrived in London in the early 1960’s, I was put [more…]

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The Lost Airman – Part One

7th September 2020 Going Postal 2703 Comments

Chelsfield Green, a strip of elevated, sloping grassland running alongside Warren Road from Chelsfield Station to Court Road on the fringe of the Village, has become a popular spot for a ration of daily exercise [more…]

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The Swaling, Part Nineteen

5th September 2020 Always Worth Saying 2673 Comments

I’m on the rooftop of my cheap hotel in Tangiers. I have escorted the duplicitous Miss Tammy back to the luxurious Royal Maroc, after another night photographing the notorious comings and goings at the Port [more…]

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Hard Times in the Big Easy

28th August 2020 Always Worth Saying 3576 Comments

If you think Ribblehead (440 yards) and Dent Head (199 yards) are a thrill then you’re going to love the Lake Pontchartrain rail bridge, all 4.4 miles of it. If you prefer to cross your [more…]

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