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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Seventy

2nd March 2025 Going Postal 2980 Comments

Monday Good morning, people. Wow, the sun is out this morning for a change, but it’s still bloody cold. I was not outside for very long, and I don’t intend to be outside much more [more…]

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Yet Another Caribbean Christmas And New Year, Part One

22nd January 2025 Going Postal 3129 Comments

Friday 20th December – Home to Barbados My alarm woke me at five, and I got up immediately—no lie-in, as I would probably go back to sleep, and that could be a disaster. Shave, shower, [more…]

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

15th December 2024 Going Postal 2090 Comments

Monday Good morning all, it was bright and sunny early on, but the sun has gone now and it’s grey. Today we have the new numbers out for Channel migrants, 20,210 since the Government came [more…]

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4th November 2024 Going Postal 2659 Comments

Well then, seems I’ve been pressured into writing this one as a result of a suggestion from a Puffiness (who shall remain nameless (Yes, I’m looking at you…)). Rather than celebrating the dreadful Americanism that [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Fifty-Six

3rd November 2024 Going Postal 2662 Comments

Monday Good morning from a dry but grotty Westminster. It looks like it’s going to rain at any moment, but the forecast is for a dry day. Today’s big question is, did the Camel actually [more…]

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A View From (The Shed By) The Greenhouse; Scales Of Justice….Innit?

22nd October 2024 Colin Cross 2208 Comments

It’s often quite surprising when you find something that you didn’t know was lost, as happened recently with this set of scales. I didn’t “rediscover” them myself, the buildings and maintenance department did, but we’re [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Forty-Five

18th August 2024 Going Postal 2078 Comments

Monday Good morning and hello from a not very happy cat this morning. I thought that Legohead was supposed to be going off on his holidays and I was going to have a nice peaceful [more…]

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Cruising From Malta, Part Two

8th July 2024 Going Postal 2163 Comments

Day 3 – Saturday – Mykonos I woke up and saw that it was a couple of minutes before six, and the sun was shining, the sky was cloudless and the sea like a mirror. [more…]

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Cruising From Malta, Part One

2nd July 2024 Going Postal 2829 Comments

I won’t bother taking you through all the preliminaries for this cruise except to say this time I choose to fly to Malta to pick up the cruise ship, P&O Azura. It cuts out a [more…]

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