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20th Century

Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Three

29th January 2021 Going Postal 0

At school, Jinnie had been taught how Germany under Adolf Hitler had the taken over the rest of Western Europe (excluding Switzerland, Spain, Portugal and Ireland), Eastern Europe and with its partner Italy, much of [more…]

Arts

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

29th January 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 28th January 2021 Panel: Gillian Keegan (Conservative) Kate Green (Labour) Deborah Meaden (Businesswoman) Layla McCay (NHS Confederation) Camilla Tominey (Journalist) Venue: London Your humble author recalls two prominent local gentlemen of his acquaintance. [more…]

Arts

Film Review: The Tourist

28th January 2021 Going Postal 0

It all started, they say, when he met a woman……….. Angeline Jolie plays Elise, the extraordinary and captivating girlfriend of Alexander Pearce, a criminal who has sensibly disappeared after embezzling $2 billion from a mobster. [more…]

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Arts

Confessions of a campsite courier, Part 2

27th January 2021 Going Postal 0

Je vous parle d’un temps Que les moins de vingt ans Ne peuvent pas connaître …..  C’est là qu’on s’est connu Moi qui criait famine Et toi qui posais nue….. Charles Aznavour – La Bohème [more…]

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The Man Who Played Ross – Chapter 4

24th January 2021 Blown Periphery 0

And, for an earnest of a greater honour, He bade me, from him, call thee thane of Cawdor: In which addition, hail, most worthy thane! For it is thine. They completed their P Company course, [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary, Week Seventy Seven

24th January 2021 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning merry readers, I am delighted that it not as cold this morning. I knew it wasn’t as soon as I put my nose out of the cat flap this morning. I got [more…]

Arts

The Swaling, Part Thirty Nine

23rd January 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

We’re in the underground comms room of a deserted nighttime British High Commission in Singapore. Outside, a swaling wind, a tropical storm mixed with the burnings of Indonesian crops, is battering the city state’s good [more…]

20th Century

Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Two

22nd January 2021 Going Postal 0

Jinnie loved her weekly whist classes, but she knew better than to discuss what she learnt with anyone, especially her boyfriend Hans. He was in the Hitler Youth (HJ) and took it very seriously. He [more…]

Arts

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

22nd January 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 21st January 2021 Panel: Arlene Foster (DUP) Brandon Lewis (Conservative) Louise Haigh (Labour) Anand Menon (Politics Professor) Michelle O’Neill (Sinn Fein) Venue: Northern Ireland Not surprisingly, there’s a consensus abroad that mental health [more…]

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