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Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Thirty Two

27th February 2022 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning merry readers. It’s amazing how quickly these Monday mornings come around and I set off on another journey into this whacky world we live in. Bozzie woke me up early clumping around [more…]

Fiction

Jinnie’s Story – Book Three, Chapter Eight

25th February 2022 Going Postal 0

Jinnie awoke with Larry asleep on her feet. He had been delighted to see her home and had followed her around the house like a little dog, reluctant to leave her side. Her movement woke [more…]

Arts

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

25th February 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 24th February 2022 The Panel: Nadhim Zahawi (Conservative) James Cleverley (Conservative) David Lammy (Labour) Katherine Birbalsingh (Educator) Radek Sikorski (Polish MEP) Timothy Gorton-Ash (Historian) Anne McElvoy (The Economist) Venue: Harrow Puffins with instant [more…]

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Queen of the Hebrides – Personal Recollections

24th February 2022 Going Postal 0

17.30 Saturday 31st October 2015 For the second day running, we sit on the hard plastic chairs at Glenegedale Airport, staring despondently out of the windows into the grey Islay gloom, with only the occasional [more…]

20th Century

Memories of My Early Childhood

23rd February 2022 Going Postal 0

I was born in 1950 and I have very happy memories of my early years. I was lucky I guess. We lived in a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Church End, Finchley with decent sized front, [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse (“Brexit” Disastrophe)

22nd February 2022 Colin Cross 0

In Scotland and Lancashire they had (maybe they still do have) Wakes Week, a time when factories, mines and the like closed for 7 days to allow people to go to Blackpool, get pissed and [more…]

Fiction

The Colombian Sojourn – Chapter 25

20th February 2022 Blown Periphery 0

Weare Giffard North Devon, Langley Virginia, Bogota and St Juan de Pasto Main Operating Base This is Dedicated to those we leave behind. “Moira Edge. Moira Edge. Mrs Moira Edge,” she said it out loud, [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Thirty One

20th February 2022 Going Postal 0

Monday Good Morning everyone and welcome to another week of my ramblings. I read an article saying that saying the Little Otter has any influence over Bozzie, and hence government policy, was sexist. I must [more…]

Biography

Herodotus and the Histories – Part One

20th February 2022 1642again 0

Having finally fulfilled a previous and somewhat rash promise to write about Thucydides and his account of the Peloponnesian War, I thought it about time I write about his forerunner, Herodotus of Halicarnassus, who is [more…]

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