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Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Twenty-Six

10th May 2026 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning, my friends, it’s yet another lovely morning weather-wise, but the radio tells me it is going to be a wet evening and overnight. I suppose the garden can do with it. I [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Twenty

29th March 2026 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning, my friends. No sun this morning and not terribly warm, but the man on the radio says it is going to get quite warm midweek. It has been quite mad in No. [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Nineteen

22nd March 2026 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning, my friends. It was a bit misty when I ventured out this morning, not cold or wet, but not very nice. Still, it wasn’t raining, and it was a bowl of Felix [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Eighteen

15th March 2026 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning, my friends. It was sunny and fairly warm this morning when I popped out. Not a good weekend, as Legohead was around and held a couple of press conferences where he was [more…]

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Starmer the Unready

9th March 2026 well_chuffed 0

Much to the world’s delight, well who doesn’t like to laugh at the discomfort of other countries, we are highly embarrassed by the state of our Navy. This has all come about because of our [more…]

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Shipshape or All at Sea?

7th March 2026 Always Worth Saying 0

Last Saturday’s article, I See No Ships, proved to be prescient as, while the ink dried on the 28th February piece, Israel and America began their attack on Iran. In retaliation, drone and missile attacks [more…]

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Postcard From Spy Island

7th December 2023 Always Worth Saying 0

In more relaxed times, a flight known as the Trooper originates from RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire. This summer, despite the weather, Operation Red Top was initiated to reduce heat damage to the base’s runway, [more…]

20th Century

Press Photographer, Part One

26th May 2022 Going Postal 0

Another chapter from “Special Assignment” by my uncle John Alldridge (published in 1960 and now long out of print) Halfway over Putney Bridge the No 14 bus jolted to a halt. Behind it the rush-hour [more…]

20th Century

Postcard from Cyprus, 1996

2nd March 2022 Going Postal 0

By the early 1990s, computing in the Ministry of Defence was moving from huge, multi-million pound machines housed in air-conditioned rooms out into the offices on  minicomputers and personal computers running Windows. It’s hard to [more…]

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