Canada

My dad and the Canadians

29th May 2025 well_chuffed 2716 Comments

King Sausage Fingers opening the Canadian Parliament inspires me to write a few words about the Canucks. Charlie boy opening the Canadian Parliament as their head of state was a a powerful image and a [more…]

Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Seventy-Three

23rd March 2025 Going Postal 2139 Comments

Monday Good morning, folks, and it’s not as nice as yesterday here in London. The last two days have been beautiful here in Westminster, warm and sunny, real windowsill weather. It’s still warm here this [more…]

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

19th January 2025 Going Postal 2601 Comments

Monday Wow, the cat is back, and, disappointingly, so is Legohead. It has been quite pleasant here in Number Ten without him. First, he was at Chequers; then he went to Madeira for some winter [more…]

’59 Trail, Part Nine

21st November 2023 Going Postal 2376 Comments

Final part of my uncle, John Alldridge’s 1959 report from Canada’s Far North for the Birmingham Mail – Jerry F Whitehorse, Yukon Territory My problem now was to get out of Alaska and back into [more…]

’59 Trail, Part Eight

7th November 2023 Going Postal 2826 Comments

Part 8 of my uncle, John Alldridge’s 1959 report from Canada’s Far North for the Birmingham Mail – Jerry F Kulir Lodge, Nonvianuk Lake I am roughing it with the rich. There are about 30 [more…]

’59 Trail, Part Seven

31st October 2023 Going Postal 3322 Comments

Part 7 of my uncle, John Alldridge’s 1959 report from Canada’s Far North for the Birmingham Mail – Jerry F Yellowknife, on the Great Slave Lake I flew the 800 miles from Edmonton to Yellowknife [more…]

’59 Trail, Part Six

24th October 2023 Going Postal 2887 Comments

Part 6 of my uncle, John Alldridge’s 1959 report from Canada’s Far North for the Birmingham Mail – Jerry F Flin Flon, North Manitoba This is a country where hard fact and fantastic fiction are [more…]

’59 Trail, Part Five

17th October 2023 Going Postal 2807 Comments

Part 5 of my uncle, John Alldridge’s 1959 report from Canada’s Far North for the Birmingham Mail – Jerry F The Pas, Manitoba The trick about getting round this vast, wide-open country in a hurry, [more…]

’59 Trail, Part Four

10th October 2023 Going Postal 2920 Comments

Part 4 of my uncle, John Alldridge’s 1959 report from Canada’s Far North for the Birmingham Mail – Jerry F Churchill, on Hudson’s Bay Life in Churchill — as in all frontier townships — gravitates [more…]