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

23rd February 2025 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning, people. Surprise, surprise, it’s damp and gloomy once again in Downing Street, and that’s not only outside Number 10. Inside, we have a wet, rather than damp, PM, and he is very [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Twenty-One

11th February 2024 Going Postal 0

Monday Hi folks, it’s another week and I am back at work after a pleasant weekend. I understand the Rich Boy has decided to introduce more legislation to try to stop children vaping. He says [more…]

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Sugar subsector reforms a Herculean task for Ruto

31st January 2024 Going Postal 0

It is commendable that the Ruto regime is taking steps to revive the sugar sector but President Ruto will require strong goodwill to succeed where his predecessors have failed. January 11, 2024 In recent years, [more…]

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The Tale of my Old Dumper, Part Four

6th December 2023 Going Postal 0

Perhaps it’s worth mentioning the tool I use for cutting sheet and plate steel, a standard 4.5 inch angle grinder. ½ inch thickness can be dealt with quite easily and if you mark the job [more…]

Hobbies

The Tale of my Old Dumper, Part Three

29th November 2023 Going Postal 0

The next component that I needed was a so-called ‘’spool valve’’ with is basically a device with a hand operated lever that ports the hydraulic oil to either end of the hydraulic rams according to [more…]

Hobbies

The Tale of my Old Dumper, Part Two

22nd November 2023 Going Postal 0

This  dumper, one of the first types to hit the scene has no hydraulic system and the skip is basically unloaded by pulling a big lever which releases a hook and the entire skip rolls [more…]

Hobbies

The Tale of my Old Dumper, Part One

15th November 2023 Going Postal 0

The beginning This story starts roughly six years ago when we moved to Cumbria having purchased a small farm cottage with adjoining derelict barn which we planned to convert to domestic accommodation. Firstly a warning, [more…]

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Let’s All Eat Maggots

24th April 2023 Going Postal 0

“We now eat in two weeks the amount of sugar our ancestors of 200 years ago ate in a whole year”  John Yudkin 1963 All WW2 Far East Prisoners of War were heroes, but in [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse; (Pain and Loss)

31st May 2022 Colin Cross 0

Welcome dear readers; before we get started, a warning. Those of you that aren’t interested in the maudlin, or the philosophy of loss, or the pain which accompanies it, look away now, this isn’t going [more…]

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