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Writing – a few tips

25th March 2023 Going Postal 0

I’ve often heard Puffins lament that they would like to contribute articles to our esteemed website but are too daunted. So, I thought I’d share a few tips to encourage more Puffins to pick up [more…]

20th Century

Stalybridge – Clubs, Pubs And Poets

20th October 2022 Going Postal 0

I’ve never been myself, but I’m prepared to bet that Stalybridge is rather different today from when my uncle described it for the Manchester Evening News in February, 1947 – Jerry F A blizzard was [more…]

19th Century

In Defence of Kipling

14th August 2022 Going Postal 1

‘When the Rudyards cease their Kipling, and the Haggards ride no more…’ was a favoured line in the era of post Imperial breast-beating, when this voluminous and best-selling writer, both in verse and prose was [more…]

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21st Century

The Fall of Boris

8th July 2022 Tachybaptus 1

All his life Boris had his eyes On winning that most glorious prize, The golden key to Number Ten, The greatest goal of powerful men. A chubby lad at a posh school, His one ambition [more…]

20th Century

Stand in the Trench, Achilles*

6th July 2022 Roger Ackroyd 0

Most of us, if asked, would be able to name a fair number of WW1 poets and writers without too much hesitation. Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves, Rupert Brooke, Isaac Rosenberg – [more…]

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Cupid’s Dart (ii)

3rd July 2022 Going Postal 0

‘Was Blake right? What do you think, dear?’ I was a bit nonplussed by this, since we’d been talking about how ever more pricey things had been becoming lately. ‘Blake?…’ ‘Yes, dear: “Milton was of [more…]

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The tale of John Barleycorn

23rd June 2022 rattuscatchus 0

Whilst listening to some 70’s era music – the time when music demanded competence – I came across a track by Traffic. I listened and remembered hearing it many years ago and that it was [more…]

View of Limerick by Alphonse Dousseau
Literature

Archaeological Limericks

16th April 2022 Tachybaptus 0

  Both English and, to a much greater extent, Scottish and Irish Gaelic are full of words spelt very differently from the way they are pronounced. These are ‘archaeological’ pronunciations reflecting the way the language [more…]

Literature

Bird Brains?

2nd January 2022 Going Postal 0

I’m not at all sure now how we got on to the subject of birds, but I was talking (I can hear her now, ‘To, dear, not with: the Americans get so hopelessly confused about [more…]

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