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Postcard from Thailand Part II

23rd July 2025 Going Postal 2591 Comments

04-05 January We had left Heathrow on 2nd January, arriving in Bangkok in the afternoon of the 3rd – our first full day in Thailand would therefore be the 4th which just so happened to [more…]

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Postcard from Thailand Part I

16th July 2025 Going Postal 2372 Comments

Planning   การวางแผน Neither the wife or I have ever been to Thailand, and it was one of our ‘bucket list’ of countries we’d like to go to; a visit to which was more likely to [more…]

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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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A Train Journey

17th February 2025 Going Postal 2284 Comments

We woke up at 6 o’clock, packed our packs and clutching our 2nd class, reserved berth tickets caught our favourite rickshaw for the 10 minute journey to Margao station where our train to Bangalore was [more…]

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Postcard From Birmingham, Part Eight

2nd November 2024 Always Worth Saying 1837 Comments

Puffins will be devasted to read this is the last episode of Postcard From Birmingham. But thrilled to hear myself and Mrs AWS have been saving up our pennies and coordinating our days off to [more…]

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Postcard From Birmingham, Part Seven

12th October 2024 Always Worth Saying 1771 Comments

Shall we climb the Minecraft Library of Birmingham as far as Mrs AWS’s iffy-with-heights wobbly legs will take her? Find a balcony and enjoy the vista? Yes, we will, and we’ll take a few photos [more…]

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A Letter From India

8th October 2024 Going Postal 2152 Comments

After qualifying, I’d worked in Basildon for four years before deciding that there was more to life than staring into people’s mouths. I’d met a girl and we decided that we would give up our [more…]

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Postcard from Birmingham, Part Six

28th September 2024 Always Worth Saying 1978 Comments

In recent weeks we have allowed ourselves to be distracted by summer riots, 1980s football matches and pop concerts, the Falkland Islands and even the delivery of mail to the South Pole at Christmas. Puffins [more…]

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In the Fens

22nd September 2024 Joe Slater 1796 Comments

It takes a week to cycle from Penzance to Berwick. It took me 40 years. Because on the way, I wanted to include every town in England, in what amounted to some two years of [more…]

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