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The Italian Job, Part 7

3rd September 2025 Going Postal 3462 Comments

Well, we were finally here. We had successfully booked in the previous night and unlike previous hotel stops, we had to have a twin room as opposed to a room each. I never stopped to [more…]

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The Italian Job, Part 6

27th August 2025 Going Postal 5298 Comments

Just to make you all aware…. this is going to be a long one. It wasnt necessarily the longest part of the trip but it was where a lot of memorable stuff happened… We left [more…]

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The Italian Job, Part 5

20th August 2025 Going Postal 2263 Comments

Sunday morning saw us re-pack our overnight bags back into the car and we left the IBIS at about 10:30-11:00AM. As we were coming down towards half full and because fuel was relatively cheap in [more…]

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The Italian Job, Part 4

13th August 2025 Going Postal 2686 Comments

Alison and I left Aylesbury in the morning and had to aim to be at the Folkestone Eurostar terminal ready for the 2pm shuttle. This is a journey I had done many many times over [more…]

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The Italian Job, Part 3

6th August 2025 Going Postal 2597 Comments

Preparations and Planning As time in November progressed, I returned home and did my best to throw myself into projects to keep myself occupied while I was between jobs, having left my previous contract a [more…]

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The Italian Job, Part 2

30th July 2025 Going Postal 3137 Comments

The Hows, Whys And Wherefores The How centered around two particular ways of achieving the objective. I guess on reflection, it probably helped to look at is as a kind of project. One was flying [more…]

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The Italian Job, Part 1

23rd July 2025 Going Postal 2815 Comments

The story of a Road Trip to give the late Mrs F a perfect send off after her unexpected departure from this world and what I wanted to do to give her the perfect send [more…]

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Last Night Of The Proms 2023 – A Puffin’s eye view

8th October 2023 Going Postal 2648 Comments

This particular night has been a very long time coming; pretty much forty years to be precise. I remember first watching the Last Night as a yoof and taking in the spectacle on TV in [more…]

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