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Fabulously Flamboyant Friday: Ivory Cutlery’s Day Off Pt. 5

18th April 2025 Going Postal 2887 Comments

Greetings pop pickers and please be welcome to tonight’s Fabulously Flamboyant Friday and another of our fortnightly mastications upon the marshmallowy pillows of musical magnificence. Tonight, dear reader, as we respectfully mark Toddle Waddle month, [more…]

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The History of Pop Music – 1975

28th March 2025 Phil the Ex Test Manager 2373 Comments

Featured song: Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped making it. One [more…]

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A History of Pop Music – 1969

3rd January 2025 Phil the Ex Test Manager 2509 Comments

Featured song: The Rolling Stones – Honky Tonk Women This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped [more…]

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Lofty Ambitions

23rd September 2024 John Booth 1916 Comments

This is a tale of woe, a tale of lack of planning, of insufficient forethought and carelessness.  It’s also a warning to all Puffins not to make the same mistakes as I have made, to [more…]

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Flaming June (ii)

7th July 2024 Going Postal 3125 Comments

Every time I look at that picture, I seem almost to be looking out from near where I live, although the vista that includes St. Michael’s Mount is less distantly hazy, and the Mount more [more…]

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The Great British Sports Car 1945 – 1985

14th February 2024 Grimy Miner 2250 Comments

So, before we get to the “meat and potatoes” of this article let us set a few ground rules. What IS a sports car? – In my opinion a sports car should be low slung, [more…]

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The Rise and Fall of the Needle Gun 1841-1874

12th September 2022 Tom Pudding 2902 Comments

The Needle Gun Every once in a while in all fields of engineering there comes along an innovation that so revolutionises the existing technology that it makes long accepted ways of doing things obsolete and [more…]

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Samfyaza Chapter 14, Camp Mitkan – September 2006

17th July 2022 Blown Periphery 3351 Comments

It was Rosh Hashana Eve and once again, Afarin and Heyfa were alone in their apartments, as everybody else had gone home for the Jewish New Year. They had promised each other a meal out [more…]

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The War Correspondent, Part One

5th May 2022 Going Postal 3203 Comments

Another chapter from “Special Assignment” by my uncle John Alldridge (published in 1960 and now long out of print) When the first great war correspondent, William Howard Russell, went out to the Crimea for the [more…]

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