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A Perfect Weekend

10th February 2021 Going Postal 2163 Comments

It started with a gig Back in July 2017, my son’s band (pop punk – you wouldn’t like them!) were invited to play at the Workington Touch Down Festival. As the money was good, they [more…]

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Postcard From Berlin, 1979

10th December 2020 Going Postal 3601 Comments

Back in the late 1970s, when we were both rising stars in IT in the Ministry of Defence, my friend was posted to Berlin to run the Army’s computer centre there. Being a good mate, [more…]

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My Cars

4th September 2020 Going Postal 3625 Comments

I’ve owned cars for almost fifty years now. For most of that time I’ve been down at the “bangernomics” end of the scale of car ownership – buy ’em cheap, run ’em, scrap ’em and [more…]

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