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Postcard From Latina

28th April 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

If one, parent’s night, your daughter’s Italian teacher tells you Latina is the ugliest city in Italy and adds in a whisper, “And then there’s Mousillini”, don’t agree with her until you’ve visited. Situated on [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, Part Twelve

23rd April 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

As we discovered last time on Nostalgia Album, Malta is short of trees. Although my father’s cousin, Anne, and her parents Bob and Lil along with some Navy friends, did find some rare shade when [more…]

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The Board Now Departing

22nd April 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

The truck now leaving a back lane behind your local railway station may well be removing the mangled remains of a giant departure board. Why so? Because they’re being replaced, and by creatures not even [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, Part Eleven

16th April 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Last time on Nostalgia Album we visited the coast at Malta’s Ghajn Tuffieha. Pictured on the road nearby is my father’s cousin, Anne, at the front, with her parents Lil and Bob standing behind her, [more…]

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The Making of Question Time Review

15th April 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

In the un-read comments beneath Going-Postal’s weekly unread Question Time Review, Puffin’s ask how is it done? Or rather, why is it done? Even, why bother doing it? No matter. Perhaps answering the first unread [more…]

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The Reimagining of Nora Baker

12th April 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Nora Baker was born in Moscow on New Years’ Day 1914. Her mother was Ora Ray Baker, an American from Albuquerque, New Mexico. During her peripatetic early years, Nora was raised in London’s Bloomsberry and [more…]

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Nostaglia Album, Part Ten

9th April 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

At the end of the Second War, my father’s cousin Anne and her mother travelled to Malta to join her father Rob who was a Royal Navy foreman in Malta’s Grand Harbour dockyards. They lodged [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

8th April 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 7th April 2022 The Panel: Gregg Hands (Conservative) Emily Thornberry (Labour) Justin Welby (Archbishop of Canterbury) Zing Tsjeng (VICE UK) Dan Hodges (Mail on Sunday) Venue: Canterbury Back in the day, when an [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, Part Nine

2nd April 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

At the end of the Second World War, on my father’s side of the family, the generations had passed with both grandparents dying in their sleep at ripe old ages. By VJ Day the cast [more…]

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