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Coronavirus – the first thousand days

14th October 2022 Going Postal 2695 Comments

The earliest stats on the coronavirus that I can find  – numbers of cases and deaths – were recorded by John Hopkins university on 19th January 2020, with 204 cases and 3 deaths.  There are [more…]

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The Two Wolves

4th July 2022 Going Postal 3198 Comments

This story is a bit of a fudge, but Bob is short of material, so it might get through.  Mustn’t let the perfect be the enemy of the adequate, after all… I’ve long had this [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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The story of Matilda (Revised)

11th November 2021 Going Postal 2886 Comments

I wrote a few notes on Warble Gloaming recently, and with the gloomfest that is COP26 looming I thought it might be time to revisit them.  Here’s the third, where I try to list the [more…]

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Apollo 13 (Revised)

4th November 2021 Going Postal 4346 Comments

I wrote a few notes on Warble Gloaming recently, and with the gloomfest that is COP26 looming I thought it might be time to revisit them.  Here’s the second, on that well-known danger to Life [more…]

Authoritarianism

Ice Station Zero (Revisited)

28th October 2021 Going Postal 2192 Comments

I wrote a few notes on Warble Gloaming recently, and with the gloomfest that is COP26 looming I thought it might be time to revisit them. Here’s the first, which I’ve named after an Alistair [more…]

Jim Walshe, Going Postal
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Coronavirus – the inevitable inquiry

19th April 2021 Going Postal 1852 Comments

When, this bloody war is ooooover, Oh, how happy I will beeeee. That’s how I feel about that virus! At some stage, we do need to get back to normal.  Remember those days, when you’d [more…]

Jim Walshe, Going Postal
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Book Review: This Sovereign Isle

16th February 2021 Going Postal 2278 Comments

‘This Sovereign Isle’, or ‘Britain in and out of Europe’ by Robert Tombs was published by Allen Lane on 28th January 2021. I got my copy from Blackwells at a slight discount to the £16.99 RRP [more…]

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The story of Matilda

13th August 2020 Going Postal 3531 Comments

Remember old Aesop and his Fables?  There’s one about the boy who was set to guard the sheep and as he was bored, he called the alarm to liven things up a bit.  Eventually the [more…]

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