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Mystery Album, Part Nine

13th November 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Last time on Mystery Album we discovered that our mystery family were enjoying a fishing holiday at the village of Gunnersdale’s Kings Arms hostelry in Swaledale. Given the state of the dry stone walls and [more…]

Fiction

Jinnie’s Story – Book Two, Chapter Twenty One

12th November 2021 Going Postal 0

Just over a week after her meeting with the PM Jinnie realised that things were starting to happen. She had put the radio on to listen to the morning news while making her favourite soft [more…]

Arts

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

12th November 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 11th November 2021 The Panel: Lee Rowley (Conservative) Lucy Powell (Labour) Emma Pinchbeck (CEO of Energy UK) Tom Newton Dunn (Political Commentator) Alastair Campbell (Former Press Secretary) Venue: Hartlepool First question, do you [more…]

20th Century

Postcard From Summer 1954, Part Three – Scarborough

11th November 2021 Going Postal 0

In 1954, the Manchester Evening News launched a “Special Investigation” and tasked my uncle, John Alldridge, with answering the question – Holidaymakers, do you get value for your MONEY? What follows is his report on [more…]

Biography

Sailing my life away, part 27

9th November 2021 Ancient Mariner 0

I start this article with a response to points raised or ideas triggered by comments on part 26, and as usual thank all those who made them. The continuing interest stimulates further effort to keep [more…]

Engineering

Busy Days at Cop Junction

8th November 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Cop junction lies just north of Charlisle, an English cathedral city on Network Rail’s West Coast Main Line somewhere between Preston and Motherwell, possibly within a giant spike in the border penetrating well into Scotland [more…]

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The Colombian Sojourn – Chapter 10

7th November 2021 Blown Periphery 0

There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest. ― Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King: The [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Eighteen

7th November 2021 Going Postal 0

Monday Morning merry readers, another week of reporting stretches ahead of me. I have been eating my breakfast and listening to the radio. I do wish Bozzie would stick to one station. I just get [more…]

20th Century

Mystery Album, Part Eight

6th November 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

There are pleasures even the most adventurous of lives can deny a gentleman. Despite the tales of derring-do from his previous life more interesting (occasionally mildly exaggerated), there are places your author has rarely visited [more…]

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