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Near-Disaster at 39,000ft

20th July 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Returning home from our day trip to Edinburgh, myself and Mrs AWS have pause for thought as we eat our Burger Kings in Standard Premium. Beyond our train window, the peaceful Scottish Lowlands flash past. [more…]

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Desert Mysteries Redux – Part One

3rd July 2024 Going Postal 0

In the original Desert Mysteries series, I wrote about a 1939 edition of Blackwood’s magazine bought at an antiques fair that led me to research the lives of the men who had read it and [more…]

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Desert Mysteries, Part Six

19th June 2024 Going Postal 0

In the film “Lawrence of Arabia”, Lawrence is asked, “What is it, Major Lawrence, that attracts you, personally, to the desert?” His response was, “It’s clean. I like it because it’s clean.” This quote is [more…]

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Desert Mysteries, Part Five

12th June 2024 Going Postal 0

The Royal Tank Museum In Part 4, I described the vehicles that belonged to the British and Arab “Special Forces” of WW1 and WW2 that are displayed in The Royal Tank Museum in Amman, Jordan. [more…]

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Desert Mysteries, Part Four

5th June 2024 Going Postal 0

The Royal Tank Museum Amman in Jordan is home to one of the best museums of its type in the world, The Royal Tank Museum. A project of the King of Jordan, Abdullah II, the [more…]

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