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Recent Incendiary Allegations – An Explanation

31st May 2025 Always Worth Saying 2054 Comments

They say that lightning doesn’t strike twice. They are wrong. And if it scorches a doorway or two and sets one of my old cars alight, then so be it — some things are meant [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred and Seventy Eight

27th April 2025 Going Postal 2162 Comments

Monday Good morning, and it looks like today could be the last day of decent weather, with rain forecast for tomorrow morning. I was not surprised to see that Parliament was busy on Saturday, but [more…]

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

16th February 2025 Going Postal 2703 Comments

Monday Good morning, fellow Puffins. It’s frosty out there this morning, but the sun is on its way up. Last week, I told you Legohead was at Chequers for the weekend, but I didn’t know [more…]

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Larry’s Diary – Week Two Hundred And Thirty

14th April 2024 Going Postal 2410 Comments

Monday Good morning friends, and a happy Easter Monday to you. It is also April Fool’s Day. I promise you I will not be telling you any April Fools Day’s stories, at least not deliberately. [more…]

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Larry’s Diary – Week One-Hundred And Ninety

4th June 2023 Going Postal 1266 Comments

Monday Good morning everyone, and welcome to another week of my musings. I have had a cracking weekend. It has been lovely and peaceful in Number 10 with the Rich Boy in Japan and since [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred And Forty Six

5th June 2022 Going Postal 3634 Comments

Monday Morning reader. It’s a bit grey this morning and not so warm as recently. Bozzie was having his usual moan over breakfast this morning. Today it was about the contrived row in the media [more…]

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Ukraine’s Javelin, NLAW and TB-2

3rd March 2022 Always Worth Saying 4294 Comments

Javelin Javelin is an infrared (ie heat-seeking) guided anti-tank missile system. A previous generation of anti-tank missiles were wire-guided via a ‘semi-automatic command to line of sight’ (or SACLOS) system where the operator had to [more…]

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More Bees

11th May 2020 Going Postal 3821 Comments

I’m assuming you are only reading this because Swiss Bob has run out of: faggot and quiche recipes, and/or Old Trout’s maths questions, that bring back nightmares of my ‘A’ levels from longer ago than [more…]

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Bees

28th November 2019 Going Postal 3213 Comments

I started bee-keeping, encouraged by my father-in-law, as he had been by his father-in-law. He, the former, had had to give up his bees, after collapsing in the orchard following a sting, and sold all [more…]

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    Let me start at the beginning of my knowledge. I spent my 21st Birthday in Prison. A simple statement. Mind you, as I had spent my 19th Birthday at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, my [more...]
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