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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Eighty

11th May 2025 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning on this beautiful Monday morning. When I went for my pre-breakfast poo it was wonderfully sunny and warm. For a change, I got back before my feeder arrived and, after saying hello [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Sixty-Nine

23rd February 2025 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning, people. Surprise, surprise, it’s damp and gloomy once again in Downing Street, and that’s not only outside Number 10. Inside, we have a wet, rather than damp, PM, and he is very [more…]

20th Century

European Journey 1953, Part Two – Amsterdam

3rd September 2024 Going Postal 0

I have been watching them all morning; those bicycle wheels going round and round and round the Leidseplein. There is something hypnotic about it. Something a little frightening too. Like watching life on a perpetual [more…]

20th Century

How I Became A Sex Worker

22nd September 2021 bobo 0

In the late Seventies I spent a couple of years in Amsterdam. Whilst I was there, for a time I was employed as a Sex Worker. Right. That got your attention, didn’t it? Oh, don’t [more…]

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Cruising on again

2nd September 2019 Sweaty Dave 0

Last year, in the spirit of the series of travelogue postcards often presented on this site, I wrote first timer’s guide to going on a cruise. The one in question was a TUI/Marella cruise around [more…]

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Postcard from Lille, prologue

4th January 2019 Going Postal 0

Previously, underused first class carriages formed an overnight , £5 a seat, train between Glasgow and London. It was called the Nightrider. In those days Scotsman would travel with ghettoblasters and a cardboard tray of [more…]

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