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The Diary of a REMF – Part Two

18th June 2023 Blown Periphery 0

Wednesday 11th February While Margin had a great deal of respect for the Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre, he realised that there was one major flaw in the well-oiled machinery of repatriation. It was designed [more…]

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The Diary of a REMF – Part One

11th June 2023 Blown Periphery 0

Thursday 5th February The son who had been born in a clinic in the Camargue while lizards crawled up the walls of the delivery room, looked down at the dying man in the bed. Cancer [more…]

America

What does it mean to be an American?

2nd October 2021 Fred Brownbill 0

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails. H. Jackson Brown Jr Today’s blog was written by a good friend of mine, Lieutenant Jason Redman, U.S. Navy SEAL, retired. His [more…]

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Warmongers

21st September 2021 well_chuffed 0

Having merely perused the headline on one of Peter Hitchens’ blog offerings, it has inspired me to this article that asks one of the great unanswered questions of our time. How did the left go [more…]

America

Biden ridiculed by oldest ally

4th September 2021 Fred Brownbill 0

It is terrible to read that the United Kingdom right now holds America in such low esteem that they feel compelled to issue statements affirming that position. How embarrassing for what was once the most [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Eight

29th August 2021 Going Postal 0

Monday Morning all. The last day of the Test match today so I expect it to rain even if it’s not forecast. Bozzie has got one of his Cobra meetings this morning, this one is [more…]

Literature

Miss Pronter’s Prescient Verses

29th August 2021 Going Postal 0

My Dear Friend, Miss. Pronter, has forgiven, but hardly forgotten, my betise in allowing some of her verses to be put forward here, under a mangled version of her name (‘You claim to be a [more…]

America

The Land Beyond the Khyber

18th August 2021 Going Postal 0

My uncle was, from the end of the war until his death in 1973, Special Correspondent for the Manchester Evening News. I recently came across an article which the paper published in June 1971 in [more…]

19th Century

Boldly goings on at the Frontier

31st May 2021 Going Postal 0

It is curious how the very phrase “North West Frontier” continues to resonate, even in these post-imperial times. That particular frontier, which ran for 1000 miles in between what is now Pakistan & Afghanistan was [more…]

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