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A View From (Inside) The Greenhouse; Merry Eid (By Gum) And A Happy Ramalama-Dingdong

1st April 2025 Colin Cross 1656 Comments

Following the last “storm” and the subsequent damage, the path alongside the main growing area had turned into a bit of mud-swamp. This was unavoidable, due to Buildings and Maintenance trekking up and down it, [more…]

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A View (Actually) From The Greenhouse….Everything Is Not As It Seems…

25th December 2024 Colin Cross 1729 Comments

Like me, you’d have been saddened but unsurprised by the latest in a long line of cars, as if driven by some kind of divine hand, crashing into innocent people going about their ordinary, if [more…]

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Are we the new Nazis?

10th December 2024 well_chuffed 2631 Comments

I used to wallow, absolutely wallow, in self righteousness. The reason was simple. There was no chance we could ever sink so low as to be like those dreadful Nazis were. We, as a nation, [more…]

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Another View From (The Shed By) The Greenhouse……How Corrupted?

12th November 2024 Colin Cross 1894 Comments

It goes without saying (but I’m going to repeat it anyway, for those tin-eared few at the back) that Labour won the election simply because the Tories had managed to make themselves un-electable and Reform, [more…]

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Enemies Within: A Curious Incident at The Observatory

9th November 2024 Always Worth Saying 1945 Comments

On a crisp February afternoon on a non-descript Thursday in 1894, tram conductor Mr William Smith issued a through ticket from Westminster Bridge to Greenwich. On entering the horse-drawn tram, the passenger concerned wore a [more…]

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NewSpeak

26th August 2024 well_chuffed 4447 Comments

In 1984 George Orwell introduced Newspeak. This was an attempt to remove words from the language of which Big Brother did not approve. Words such as revolution. The theory being that if words did not [more…]

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Thoughts of a Free Man

12th August 2024 Jwp 2953 Comments

I do not despise this man. I am sure he believes that he is right and that is something to which we are all entitled. Opinion is not something that should be policed because it [more…]

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The Tectonic Plates Shift

3rd August 2024 Always Worth Saying 3327 Comments

As we make our way back from an enjoyable day trip by train to Edinburgh, Mrs AWS and I have pause for thought as we pass through Lockerbie, scene of the 1988 bombing which claimed [more…]

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Report From Kenya, 1955 – Part Six

30th July 2024 Going Postal 3618 Comments

In 1955, at the height of the Mau Mau Rebellion, my uncle John Alldridge produced a series of reports from Kenya for the Birmingham Mail and the Manchester Evening News – Jerry F Nairobi With [more…]

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