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The Saracen’s Head

24th October 2022 Going Postal 3301 Comments

s I am a sane and sensible person (honest!!). This isn’t the only time – I’ve had a couple of experiences that I can’t explain. I’m not given to flights of fancy – I swear [more…]

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A ghost story

30th June 2022 Going Postal 3122 Comments

Here is a short story.  It starts on a train and I’m talking to a fellow commuter and it’s set in the time BC – Before Coronavirus….. I really hate mobile phones.  There’s no privacy, [more…]

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A Winter’s Tale

8th December 2021 bobo 4977 Comments

We moved, the wife and I, into this house eleven years ago. It is a prosaic little domicile, having been built in 1990, and it is situated equidistant between the railway station, the hospital and [more…]

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Wildfowling: The Spirit of the Marsh

31st October 2021 Columba Palumbus 2479 Comments

Evening flight had been a total loss and the bad weather looked to be closing in fast. Jay the Spaniel cut a piteous figure, highlighted as he was in the feeble light from a head [more…]

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‘I Will Haunt You’

22nd February 2021 bobo 2947 Comments

James Irving was….Well, even at this early juncture in our story the sources are ambiguous and contradictory. Said to have been a prosperous Liverpudlian businessman, the nature of his business is variously described as a [more…]

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Wildfowling: The voice in the darkness

11th February 2021 Columba Palumbus 2135 Comments

There is always much excitement in the yard on the first day of the season. It was Saturday the 1st of November, and a big day for the Hall Farm shoot on the edge of [more…]

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The Rendezvous

29th December 2019 Blown Periphery 2467 Comments

It had been dicey over the Big City. The flak had been murderous on the run-in and the radar predicted, master searchlights seemed to have had an unnerving accuracy that night. You could tell the [more…]

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A hell of a commute

18th July 2019 Going Postal 3426 Comments

This is a tale of what was once my daily commute for a few months during the 70s. Admittedly, not one of the Mogadishu Express to Kings Cross or the hell of the M25 car [more…]

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