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Of war and war’s alarms

18th June 2025 Going Postal 6394 Comments

About this time for several decades past I set out to spend a month or so in Lapland. Lapland is a not well defined region that spans Norway to the north, a part of Sweden [more…]

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In the Graveyard of St Nicholas, Moreton

7th May 2025 Going Postal 2383 Comments

During a visit to the Tank Museum at Bovington Camp, Dorset, with my daughter, we decided first to go to the graveyard of the Church of St Nicholas in the village of Moreton in the [more…]

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Return To The Jernbanemysterium, Part Three

22nd March 2025 Always Worth Saying 1522 Comments

Let’s cut to the quick and get down to brass tacks. Or rather cut to a railway line on the icy wastes of central Norway and investigate a strange trackside anomaly only visible to sharp-eyed [more…]

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Return To The Jernbanemysterium, Part Two

15th March 2025 Always Worth Saying 2083 Comments

Did we ever get to Lille? Those who know, know. Yes, we did, at about episode 70 of this humble racenteur’s hitty-missy Postcard of the same name that was once a staple of Saturday evening [more…]

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Return To The Jernbanemysterium

8th March 2025 Always Worth Saying 2119 Comments

A phrase lingers in the mind. In passing, Mr. DH — my colleague, a fellow Puffin to us all, and master of that mysterious gift known as the turn of phrase — once summed up [more…]

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Postcard From November, Part Six

25th May 2023 Going Postal 2626 Comments

Happy Birthday to Me My birthday is November 4th and as a child my main memory of it was always of my parents laying on a party for my friends who all turned up bearing [more…]

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Mystery Album, Part Nine

13th November 2021 Always Worth Saying 3369 Comments

Last time on Mystery Album we discovered that our mystery family were enjoying a fishing holiday at the village of Gunnersdale’s Kings Arms hostelry in Swaledale. Given the state of the dry stone walls and [more…]

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Mystery Album, Part Six

23rd October 2021 Always Worth Saying 3029 Comments

Last week we took an interest in the Merriment, a Norfolk Broads tourist wherry. The year was 1919, the month August. Its passengers were the young grandparents of a Mr Rob Bruce into whose possession [more…]

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Postcard from Narvik, Part Two

12th July 2021 Always Worth Saying 2523 Comments

Riding the Stambanan to the Malmbanan In part one of our Postcard from Narvik your humble author, his wife, children and a niece struck out for the Artic to celebrate his late October fiftieth birthday. Having [more…]

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