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The Making of Question Time Review

15th April 2022 Always Worth Saying 2062 Comments

In the un-read comments beneath Going-Postal’s weekly unread Question Time Review, Puffin’s ask how is it done? Or rather, why is it done? Even, why bother doing it? No matter. Perhaps answering the first unread [more…]

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Three Men on a Bike, Part Two

13th April 2022 Roger Ackroyd 3212 Comments

You will recall that we three intrepid cyclists, Cough, Pat and my good self, had landed in Blangy sur Bresle, a small village on the border of Picardy and Normany on the second night of [more…]

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The Crime Reporter, Part 2

13th April 2022 Going Postal 3417 Comments

Another chapter from “Special Assignment” by my uncle John Alldridge (published in 1960 and now long out of print) When people think of the crime reporter they associate him inevitably with the hurly-burly of Fleet [more…]

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SAILING MY LIFE AWAY (II), PART 1

12th April 2022 Ancient Mariner 2822 Comments

THE PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE AND DISCOVERY OF THE ARCHIPELAGO Descartes is famously quoted as having said “Cogito, Ergo Sum”. His remark was first published in French to reach a wider audience- “Je pense, donc je suis”. [more…]

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Nanny Knows Best – Ep. 500

11th April 2022 Going Postal 2806 Comments

“What we have here,” Nanny said to the Judge, “is a blatant disregard for law and all social etiquette.” Nanny paced the Court-room and addressed the twelve Clients who sat in their padded, slightly ululating [more…]

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Codename Samyaza, Prologue – June 2007

10th April 2022 Blown Periphery 2993 Comments

Like many of the young, second generation immigrants in this country, Afarin Khan struggles to be accepted as English or indeed, an Afghan. She detests men of Pakistani or Somalian heritage. Hers is a lonely [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred And Thirty Eight

10th April 2022 Going Postal 3281 Comments

Monday Good morning people. I was a bit lost yesterday when the Dreamies Girl turned up to give me my breakfast Felix. My internal clock told me she was an hour early and I was [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story – Book Three, Chapter Fourteen

8th April 2022 Going Postal 2069 Comments

Jinnie’s team had planned the mission well so far, the resistance had a car waiting for her on the beach road and she was in it and heading for Le Havre and a Paris train [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

8th April 2022 Always Worth Saying 2037 Comments

Question Time 7th April 2022 The Panel: Gregg Hands (Conservative) Emily Thornberry (Labour) Justin Welby (Archbishop of Canterbury) Zing Tsjeng (VICE UK) Dan Hodges (Mail on Sunday) Venue: Canterbury Back in the day, when an [more…]

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