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An Old Man’s Musings Part Thirty-Six

3rd August 2025 Going Postal 0

Good to see South Wales Police concentrating their efforts (and our money) on the really, really, important aspects of blatant criminality. We have residential parking; fourteen places with allocated bays but on any day at [more…]

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An Old Man’s Musings Part Thirty-Five

27th July 2025 Going Postal 0

As I sit musing about life, love and tingz I wonder where all the years have gone – my youngest grandaughter was 16 this week – how did that happen? Not to mention great grandchildren. [more…]

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Embers of The Affair, Part Three

20th July 2025 Going Postal 0

A la recherche du temps perdu (Proust) Together again Lightly falling, sunlight drawing Motes that dance and hue the air Shafts of colour, space and lightness, Draw me to you point the stair. Ah your [more…]

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An Old Man’s Musings Part Thirty-Four

13th July 2025 Going Postal 0

I don’t contribute to the unread comments so these scribblings are sometimes a week or so behind events and thoughts shared on the blog. Phaasch, I feel your pain but also the joy. July 4th [more…]

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Embers of The Affair, Part Two

6th July 2025 Going Postal 0

A la recherche du temps perdu (Proust) There was a time There was a time now long away, when I had peace, a quiet mind, my days were slow, my heartbeat too, those days before [more…]

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An Old Man’s Musings Part Thirty-Three

29th June 2025 Going Postal 0

Interesting reading Never up to the job’s article on digitising family ‘photos, recordings and other memories. A great deal of aechive material to work with. I am at the opposite end of the spectrum as [more…]

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Embers of The Affair, Part One

22nd June 2025 Going Postal 0

This is a recollection, in verse, of one of the most momentous periods in my life. But first – a tribute from me to all the lovely GP Laydees: And have you now, and will [more…]

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An Old Man’s Musings Part Thirty-Two

15th June 2025 Going Postal 0

Well, jubilation did not last long! Zia returns to the fold and now we have a Chairman who asserts migrants built the Country! God knows what is going on with Farage and Co. I was [more…]

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An Old Man’s Musings Part Thirty-One

8th June 2025 Going Postal 0

Great news to see the back of Zia Yusuf.  No place for a muslim Chairman in a party one of whose major tenets should be anti mass immigration and preservation of the British way of [more…]

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