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Sailing my life away (II), part 2

7th June 2022 Ancient Mariner 0

Hello again Puffins. I’ve been pretty snowed under for the last few months with Property Management problems and having been on one of my caravan expeditions for the last few weeks. MY CURRENT LAND-VOYAGE BY [more…]

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Outing An Agenda

7th June 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

I struggle to warm to Jurgen Klopp. Until a recent unseasonably chill Monday morning, I wasn’t sure why. Friends assume it’s because he is Liverpool manager. Far from it. Although the club, capped by fans [more…]

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Samyaze Chapter 8 Camp Mitkan Adam and The Sea of Galilee – June 2006

5th June 2022 Blown Periphery 0

It was the holy feast of Pentecost, commonly known in English as the Feast of Weeks, a Jewish holiday that occurs on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan (it may fall between [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred And Forty Six

5th June 2022 Going Postal 0

Monday Morning reader. It’s a bit grey this morning and not so warm as recently. Bozzie was having his usual moan over breakfast this morning. Today it was about the contrived row in the media [more…]

Fiction

A Right and Left – Part 1 of 2

4th June 2022 Tachybaptus 0

James Bond dozed in the warm Jamaica sun. It was only April, and the baking heat of summer was still to come. He daydreamed happily of past exploits and beautiful girls. No doubt they were [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story – Book Three, Chapter Twenty-Two

3rd June 2022 Going Postal 0

Jinnie finally stumbled into bed at just after midnight, she was shattered not so much from the physical effort of the day but from the emotional effort, she had expended trying to make the restaurant [more…]

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Press Photographer, Part Two

2nd June 2022 Going Postal 0

Another chapter from “Special Assignment” by my uncle John Alldridge (published in 1960 and now long out of print) In almost every great news story of recent times Luck has been the deciding factor. You [more…]

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A Post Covid Postcard From Vilnius (It’s War!)

2nd June 2022 Novak and Goode 0

Some of you may remember my earlier Postcard from Vilnius Postcard From Vilnius much to my surprise that article is now 2 years old. I reference it only because it still contains much current information [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse; (Pain and Loss)

31st May 2022 Colin Cross 0

Welcome dear readers; before we get started, a warning. Those of you that aren’t interested in the maudlin, or the philosophy of loss, or the pain which accompanies it, look away now, this isn’t going [more…]

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