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Christianity

Will the Grass be Greener?

3rd February 2019 Going Postal 0

It’s the question to ponder when considering Death.  Some of us will be happy to find the grass just as green as it is on this side of the divide. Some may be hoping to [more…]

20th Century

The stuff that dreams are made of . . .

3rd January 2019 Going Postal 0

In an apartment close to the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco, Dashiell Hammett wrote perhaps the best structured of all private-eye novels. The Maltese Falcon originally appeared as a five part serial in the [more…]

20th Century

Just another Film

30th November 2018 Going Postal 0

“In the good old days, when the studio factories stretched across Los Angeles under an achingly blue unsullied sky, the end of production of one film was barely distinguishable from the last hours of the [more…]

History

Everyone should have a Hero

18th August 2018 Going Postal 0

“Show me a Hero & I will write you a Tragedy, wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald. Since Harry had joined up in 1914 with the South Wales Borderers, he had seen almost continual action through to [more…]

History

Everyone should have a Hero

11th August 2018 Going Postal 0

“Whilst his Brother Harry remained in the Trenches with his South Wales Borders, George Pike had transferred out of the Army & entered the Senior Service. Far from the heat & dust of the Middle [more…]

History

Everyone should have a Hero

4th August 2018 Going Postal 0

My Great Uncle George Pike took the Kings Shilling in 1914, joining the Gloucestershire Yeomanry as a Trooper in 1914, in the initial surge of jingoistic patriotism that convinced many that having dusted off the [more…]

History

Everyone should have a Hero

28th July 2018 Going Postal 0

The Great War started for my Great Uncle Harry Pike upon enlistment into the 2nd Battalion South Wales Borderers at Newport in 1914. Subsequently, he was posted to the Rugby in January 1915. On 17 [more…]

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