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

20th April 2025 Going Postal 2077 Comments

Monday Good morning and welcome to another week of the ramblings of your favourite cat reporter. A nice morning today again, but I’m delighted to be able to tell you that Legohead had a grotty [more…]

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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…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Sixty

1st December 2024 Going Postal 2421 Comments

Monday Good morning and hello from a happy Downing Street because Legohead is missing again. He has gone off to Brazil for the G20 meeting and said he is going to meet the Chinese leader [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred and Fifty-Four

20th October 2024 Going Postal 2399 Comments

Monday Good morning from your favourite cat reporter and chief mouser. Well, it rained again yesterday, just as forecast, but it was a ‘Gray’ day for another reason here at No. 10. Don’t believe what [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Forty-Two

28th July 2024 Going Postal 2542 Comments

Monday Good morning everyone and hello from No. 10. Another nice quiet weekend here in the street, no sign of JoJo cat yet, and Legohead only seems to come in during the day and even [more…]

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Larry’s Diary – Week Two Hundred And Thirty-Three

5th May 2024 Going Postal 1915 Comments

Monday Good morning readers and hello from your favourite cat reporter. My feeder was a little late this morning, apparently there was a problem on her Tube line. Anyway, to make up for being late [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse; Doctors, Architects, Aspiring DJ’s

16th April 2024 Colin Cross 1869 Comments

They keep turning up, farm implements of indeterminate age, mostly bladed and mostly without shafts. It seems unlikely that his particular scimitar like implement is either a sickle or scythe; I’m guessing it had a [more…]

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Friday the 13th (Friggatriskaidephobia)

13th February 2024 Going Postal 1901 Comments

The first references to 13 being an unlucky number come from Norse Mythology when 12 gods held a dinner in Valhalla, Loki, the god of mischief, who was not invited, appeared and persuaded the god [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Twenty Seven

23rd January 2022 Going Postal 3951 Comments

Monday I am delighted to be back from my enforced Christmas and New Year break, and I understand that my scribe is now happy and anxiously awaiting the result of his Day 2 PCR test. [more…]

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