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A Postcard from Petrolhead Paradise

3rd October 2023 SharpieType301 2295 Comments

A Postcard from Petrolhead Paradise Well, Stone the crows! A sunny Saturday in September saw a bit of a surprise. Although we’d noticed the colourful banner advertising the event often enough as we wandered hither [more…]

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Winston Churchill- What England Means To Me

31st August 2023 Going Postal 2872 Comments

This speech was made on April 24, 1933, six years before the second World War, seven years before the battle of Britain, when Winston Churchill was fifty-nine years old. There are a few things I [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse; Cultural…..Innit?

15th August 2023 Colin Cross 2068 Comments

The weather maps glow red to black, yet here in my little corner of North West England the wet summer days blend, almost seamlessly, into each other. At least there’s plenty of grass for my [more…]

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Eastbourne To Newhaven Via Birling Gap

15th July 2023 Always Worth Saying 2223 Comments

Eastbourne is a charming seaside resort town situated in East Sussex on the south coast. Known for its Victorian seafront, it lies 19 miles east of Brighton and 54 miles south of London. According to [more…]

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The Anglo French Culture Divide

12th July 2023 Going Postal 3072 Comments

The Sexes No clearer cultural Anglo French divide is quite so evident than demonstrated in the womenfolk of both countries. At the end of the second Napoleonic war Brit women descended on Paris to search [more…]

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A Leicestershire Lad (Continued)

18th May 2023 Going Postal 2684 Comments

When I finished writing my recent article about the role the small Leicestershire village of Barkby played in shaping me into the person that I am today, I realised that there were many anecdotes that [more…]

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Postcard from Liverpool

17th May 2023 Going Postal 2186 Comments

Mrs B and I are currently on a QM2 cruise to Liverpool and back to Southampton which occurred because of the cancellation of a transatlantic sailing after a fault was found in the funnel, of [more…]

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This Is My England, Part Ten

30th April 2023 Going Postal 1286 Comments

If there was one place in England I did not intend to visit it was Clovelly. I knew just what to expect: I have seen that quaint little High Street, climbing like Jacob’s ladder from [more…]

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This Is My England, Part Nine

23rd April 2023 Going Postal 1928 Comments

From the tip of Land’s End on a fine spring morning you may look down on a sea that can be as calm and clear as a mill pond. From that height the Atlantic is [more…]

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