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John Scott Russell

3rd March 2021 Going Postal 2121 Comments

Imagine, if you will, that you have decided to go for a horse ride along a canal towpath. You see a canal barge making its way along the canal and in front of the barge [more…]

Martianonlooker, Going Postal
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The Shetland Bus

26th January 2021 Going Postal 3198 Comments

Hopefully no Puffins are standing in horizontal driving rain, on a lonely Shetland road waiting for this Bus. If they are, I have some bad news for them, this particular Bus was the name given [more…]

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Aspiring Anorak Aversion Therapy

24th October 2019 Going Postal 3292 Comments

The subject heading may read as though it is an introduction to an accountancy exam, but no, it is aversion therapy applied to an obsession, by licensed operators of machines such as the Dehavilland Chipmunk [more…]

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Standards, Flags and Colours

15th August 2019 Going Postal 2830 Comments

In an attempt to win the driest, dullest posted article I present this. The document’s first couple of lines regarding a diversity and inclusion impact assessment may take readers aback. We all know that Royal [more…]

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A hell of a commute

18th July 2019 Going Postal 3426 Comments

This is a tale of what was once my daily commute for a few months during the 70s. Admittedly, not one of the Mogadishu Express to Kings Cross or the hell of the M25 car [more…]

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