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Postcard from Lille, Part 18

8th June 2019 Always Worth Saying 3795 Comments

Mr Gecko lived in the roof space of 25 St Therese Street, in the subdivision of Yulo, in Josephina City, near the creek, slightly inland, on Josephina Island, half way down the Philippine archipelago. He [more…]

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Postcard from Lille, Part 17

1st June 2019 Always Worth Saying 3174 Comments

Ferdinand Marcos having been deposed and his People Power successor Corazon Aquino having failed to control the country, an election was due in May 1992. In which, fortunately, no one from the Aquino clan wanted [more…]

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Postcard from Lille, Part 15

11th May 2019 Always Worth Saying 3061 Comments

As with America, I went back and forward, back and forward to the Philippine Islands for about five years, but will tell the tale as one continuous story, in situ over there, perhaps including an [more…]

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Postcard from Lille, Part 14

4th May 2019 Always Worth Saying 2643 Comments

“Ladies and gentlemen this is your captain speaking we are just commencing our approach into Kai Tak international airport in Hong Kong, the weather is fine, during the approach we’ll have Kowloon City on the [more…]

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Postcard from Lille, Part 13

27th April 2019 Always Worth Saying 3355 Comments

Over chai in the subcontinent, balut in the tropics or roast swan in an Oxbridge refectory the topic of conversation might turn to ‘given the chance, would you kill baby Hitler?’ In Latin this would [more…]

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Postcard from Lille, Part 12

20th April 2019 Always Worth Saying 2336 Comments

I had an uncle who was an excellent chap from a very proud, hardworking but rather modest background. He’s the one who was on the railway (a reserved profession) during the war but managed to [more…]

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Postcard from Lille, Part 11

13th April 2019 Always Worth Saying 3647 Comments

You may wonder, dear reader, after ten episodes and a prologue, where all this is leading. It certainly doesn’t seem to be leading to Lille. Bear with me. You’ll recall that, for obvious reasons, the [more…]

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Postcard from Lille, Part 10

6th April 2019 Always Worth Saying 3143 Comments

Previously I mentioned my ‘backs and forwards’ between the north of England across the Atlantic to North America. You may recall the ‘drink the air fare’ mile high club. These happened between the Pan Am [more…]

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Postcard from Lille, Part 9

16th March 2019 Always Worth Saying 3830 Comments

On a previous trip across the English Channel many years ago, I was returning to England via Calais to Dover on the ferry as a foot passenger. I was sat on deck minding my own [more…]

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