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Borneo 1962 – 1966

18th August 2024 Going Postal 0

Borneo (Kalimantan to the Indonesians) is the second biggest island in the world. Along its northern coast, one third of the island lay three British dependant territories – the colony of Sarawak, the Sultanate of [more…]

19th Century

Once Quarried From The Old Testament

29th March 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

They say you should never meet your heroes. Is this a recent phenomenon? Certainly, you’d be advised to make an excuse and leave if you think a chief constable is about to enter the room. [more…]

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A visit to Kuala Lumpur

29th June 2022 well_chuffed 0

Back in the 80s and 90s in my IT life I did a lot of work on something called platform migrations. If your eyes haven’t already glazed over imagine taking Windoze programs and automatically converting [more…]

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Sailing around the world

9th February 2021 Going Postal 0

We accidentally sailed around the world, but by good luck we survived the Tsunami of Boxing Day 2004. There is currently obsessive talk of death, but on that morning a ¼ of a million people [more…]

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