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Postcard from Liverpool

17th May 2023 Going Postal 2184 Comments

Mrs B and I are currently on a QM2 cruise to Liverpool and back to Southampton which occurred because of the cancellation of a transatlantic sailing after a fault was found in the funnel, of [more…]

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Cruisin’ with Mr Covid

21st July 2021 Going Postal 3956 Comments

Cruising usually gets the eye-roll treatment from Puffinry, but Larry the Cat has an interest, so there. Mrs B and I seized the opportunity for a change of scenery. At certain points in your life [more…]

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Rosebud in June

8th June 2021 Going Postal 2385 Comments

Here’s a welcome to the busting-out-all-over month of June. As you know, nostalgia ain’t what it used to be. An ache for home according to the Greeks, and perfectly understandable if you were in your [more…]

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Men in Crates

15th November 2020 Going Postal 2593 Comments

The ripping yarns of derring-do served up by AWS are green in our memory, but here’s a caper that is more a case of derring-didn’t. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin. Umaru Abdulrahman Dikko [more…]

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The Brown Bull Hotel

14th July 2020 Going Postal 7869 Comments

In the eighties I worked as a Home Office representative in Immigration Tribunal Appeals in London. We were a team of ordinary civil servants and were pitted against solicitors, barristers, silks, practitioners with an agenda. [more…]

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Dad’s Virus

6th April 2020 Going Postal 2822 Comments

Music fades. Captain Mainwaring is in his chair at the Church Hall office. Frowns as he looks at the important-looking document in front of him. Sgt Wilson sidles in…   Sgt Wilson: “Good evening, sir. [more…]

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Postcard from Lundy Island

6th February 2020 Going Postal 3445 Comments

“I’ve just got back from Lundy Island.” These words are often greeted by furrowed brows and hazarded guesses as to its whereabouts. “Oh yes – somewhere in Scotland, isn’t it?” Hands up Postalliers who know? [more…]

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Meet Markos Vamvakaris (“Mark Cotton”) – Patriarch of Rebetiko

29th August 2019 Going Postal 3563 Comments

Some things are not quite what they seem: hardly an earth-shattering perception, but you have to start somewhere. I imagine that a fair number of GPers have spent a holiday in Greece. I dare say [more…]

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