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The Swaling, Part Fifty One

17th April 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Myself and Davies are two dots in the landscape running along county roads from Sleescale to a neighbouring town. Occasionally, we take short cuts across farmer’s fields. The weather is cold. So cold that the [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Thirteen

16th April 2021 Going Postal 0

The news that the couple in the bombed car were Professor Wolff and his wife hit the university hard. There was a memorial service attended by many of the students. As a member of the [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

16th April 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 15th April 2021 Panel: Bernard Jenkin (Conservative) Rosie Duffield (Labour) Xand van Tulleken (TV Presenter) Geoff Norcott (Comedian) Ayesha Hazarika (Labour Commentator) Venue: London This week, all of the panellists and Ms Bruce [more…]

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Mancs, Marx and Mill Towns

15th April 2021 Joe Slater 0

More notes from 45 years of cycling If you are following this series, you will know that my kind of curiosity is one that is still making money, or at least providing a public service [more…]

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Sailing my life away, part 12

13th April 2021 Ancient Mariner 0

PREFACE REFLECTIONS ON FREEDOM Oh dear! 12 April 2021 is the first day we’ve been let out of our cages and I’m frightened. The world outside seems a big, scary and uninteresting place – please [more…]

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Four Weeks One Summer, Part Two

12th April 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

St Ermin’s Hotel sits exactly, to the inch, halfway between Buckingham Palace and the Palace of Westminster. A four-star hotel and a Grade II listed late Victorian building, designed in the Queen Ann revival style, [more…]

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The Man Who Played Ross – Chapter 14

11th April 2021 Blown Periphery 0

They were soon to discover that Afarin Khan had one hell of an attitude. To be fair, it was their own fault and in the attempt to keep her out of harm’s way, she was [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Eighty Eight

11th April 2021 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning humans, it was a bit grey when I went out this morning, but now I have finished my Felix I can see the sunshine through the kitchen window. I will have to [more…]

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Book Review: The Age of Arthur by John Morris

11th April 2021 1642again 0

One of the most controversial books about the end of the Roman presence in Britain and the Sub-Roman Britain which survived until the modern shape of a Britain divided into England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales [more…]

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