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The Nepo Thing

4th January 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

While the term “nepo baby” is a recent addition to cultural vocabulary, the phenomenon of nepotism in entertainment, fashion and media has existed for as long as these industries themselves. Family connections have always played [more…]

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Great Uncle Wally

16th December 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Great Uncle Wally introduced me to Guinness. Well, to be fair Mackeson, its slightly sweeter cousin. A stout more adapted to the tastes of your average seven-year-old. Those regular Sunday trips during the late 60s [more…]

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Meet The Family

22nd December 2023 Always Worth Saying 0

In part one of this odyssey into the past, you’ll recall me being curious and excited in anticipation of the results of a Christmas present DNA test: Who Do I Think I Am? In part [more…]

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Who Do I Think I Am? Part Two

17th April 2023 Always Worth Saying 0

Not who I think I am Oh, dear. Be careful what you wish for. Let sleeping dogs lie. Unexpected consequences. Every family holds its secrets – except yours and mine. All is not what it [more…]

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Who Do I Think I Am?

1st February 2023 Always Worth Saying 0

I think I’ve mentioned this before on these very pages. Perhaps it’s because I am of a certain age and demeanour. Is it the slightly haggard, worldly look or a hint of exotic places in [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, Joining The Team

23rd July 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

November 1963 Last week I invited Puffins to guess, in unread comments below the unread article, what course my father’s cousin Anne may have plotted when, aged only 26, she lost both of her parents [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, A New Posting

16th July 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Fair Winds And a Following Sea This time on Nostalgia Album we are enjoying a new posting to a place where the White Ensign no longer flies. If in last week’s unread comments below the [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, Seville

9th July 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Las Dos Infantas Elegantes Last time on Nostalia Album we left my father’s cousin, Anne, beaming on the quarry spoil of a Gibraltar beach. She was 15 and thriving in the crown colony, benefitting from [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, Gibraltar Childhood

2nd July 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

At first glance, it would seem unlikely to drive all the way from Carlisle to Gibraltar just to take a photograph of a filling station. Albeit an interesting one which was, as we saw last [more…]

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