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America

An Eventful Ride, Part Three

17th July 2019 Going Postal 3124 Comments

As I live in Cornwall where the temperature rarely gets into the mid seventies Fahrenheit and where , living as I do overlooking the English Channel, the ambient humidity levels are so high, 66% on [more…]

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Joe Malone, Part Twenty-Two

16th July 2019 Going Postal 3140 Comments

“Take your designer bag and your phone and your card reader and your skinny arse, and piss off. And don’t let me see you here again, you understand?” The street beggar hurriedly gathered his stuff [more…]

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Winnie The Pooh and Greta the Climate Change Guru-ette

16th July 2019 Going Postal 3386 Comments

Piglet decided that he was going to visit his friend Pooh, as it was a bright and sunny morning in Hundred Acre Wood. He was somewhat discomfited to find the little clearing outside Pooh’s abode filled [more…]

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Némésis Part 3

14th July 2019 Blown Periphery 2340 Comments

Northern Iraq, December 2017 It was Sunday. Ripley had been kept awake by the wailing of the female fighters, mourning the death of the Peshmerga during the fighting of the previous day. They had buried [more…]

19th Century

A Bear’s Diary – Part 30

14th July 2019 Tachybaptus 2097 Comments

September 3rd, 1811. I have been too much occupied to keep up my diary for several months. We have all been toiling on the improvement of the Bear Inn, which had fallen into some disrepair [more…]

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Joe Malone, Part Twenty-One

9th July 2019 Going Postal 3769 Comments

Joe Malone, private Investigator, is still looking for the missing Lord Bixby. A principle figure in the Bollox to Brexit movement. Malone has just left young Lady Bixby and her companions at the Reform Club [more…]

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Némésis Part 2

7th July 2019 Blown Periphery 2827 Comments

Northern Iraq, November-December 2017 The Kurds were ostensibly Sunni Muslims although they seemed to display a rather more developed attitude towards the practice of their faith. The women generally covered their heads with either a [more…]

19th Century

A Bear’s Diary – Part 29

7th July 2019 Tachybaptus 3229 Comments

June 9th, 1811. At sea once more, we discovered that two of our crew had deserted, preferring the fleshpots of New York to their homeland and what will certainly be a more than generous reward [more…]

Authoritarianism

From Draft to Bookshop – A Journey

5th July 2019 Colin Cross 3284 Comments

Almost two years ago this weekend my wife and I, rather nervously, drove into a small Devon village on our way to visit a family that I had only met through Going Postal but who [more…]

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