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Larry’s Diary – Week One Hundred and Sixty-Four

23rd October 2022 Going Postal 3916 Comments

Monday Good morning folks, another week and it’s definitely getting colder when I went for my constitutional. Mary Elizabeth was in residence last night and I’m warming to her, she talks to me and strokes [more…]

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Derek And Clive Go Clubbing

8th August 2022 Novak and Goode 5974 Comments

In 1982 Clive left a small Welsh town for London to start his degree course, he had outgrown the town where he had lived all his life and was a couple of years older than [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, Joining The Team

23rd July 2022 Always Worth Saying 2575 Comments

November 1963 Last week I invited Puffins to guess, in unread comments below the unread article, what course my father’s cousin Anne may have plotted when, aged only 26, she lost both of her parents [more…]

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Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century “Strip” Maps

16th November 2021 Going Postal 3269 Comments

Introduction Sorry to disappoint you so early in the piece, but this article is not about the antics of the young Tom Jones, although undoubtedly he and his dissolute friends could and should have availed [more…]

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GP Events Summer 2021

9th August 2021 Swiss Bob 3068 Comments

Swiss Bob’s Birthday Bash Weekend of the 4th/5th September in Wiltshire, usual place familiar to many of you. I’ll send out more exact location details if your’e interested. Friday local pub for those wanting to [more…]

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Freedom March, Saturday 24th July 2021

24th July 2021 Always Worth Saying 2632 Comments

The worlds of sport and politics were rocked to their foundations this Saturday morning as England men’s senior able-bodied football team manager, Gareth Southgate, appeared at the top of every news bulletin announcing, “Get your [more…]

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A Whimsical Look at the Gentleman’s Club

15th June 2021 Godfrey Bloom 2069 Comments

I am & have been a London clubman most of my life. I have been accused of being a Wodehousian character over the years, I am happy with that, his characters, even the villains are [more…]

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The Swaling, Part Forty Five

6th March 2021 Always Worth Saying 2696 Comments

A Queen’s Messenger had called through the night with a letter. Unhelpfully, I was asleep under a bed at the time. My colleague, Natasha, took the call but, also unhelpfully, had gone work before I’d [more…]

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Ecclesiastes

8th September 2020 Going Postal 3838 Comments

“Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.” Ecclesiastes- 7:10 When we arrived in London in the early 1960’s, I was put [more…]

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