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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Forty-Two

28th July 2024 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning everyone and hello from No. 10. Another nice quiet weekend here in the street, no sign of JoJo cat yet, and Legohead only seems to come in during the day and even [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Thirty-Seven

2nd June 2024 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning merry readers, and what a beautiful warm and sunny one it is. I see the contaminated blood scandal report is out later. This public inquiry started in 2018 and has taken ages [more…]

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Larry’s Diary – Week One Hundred And Ninety-Three

9th July 2023 Going Postal 0

Monday I’m back! While my scribe has been on the high seas, I have been having a lazy old time with a lot of snoozing in the warm weather. Well, all apart from one day [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred And Fifty

3rd July 2022 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning folks, I hope you noticed that this is my 150th diary entry I am sharing with you. It’s another lovely sunny morning but it’s not quite as warm. No Bozzie at breakfast [more…]

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Imperial Measures

17th March 2022 Going Postal 0

I am one of those fortunate people who understand both metric and imperial measurements. I am old enough to have had my early education purely in imperial but as an apprentice my college courses employed [more…]

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My Apprenticeship, Part Two

15th July 2020 Going Postal 0

Part one went through the first two years of my drawing office apprenticeship with Babcock and Wilcox Ltd. During the second year, Babcock and Wilcox Ltd became Babcock and Wilcox (Operations) Limited. The first of [more…]

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My Apprenticeship, Part One

8th July 2020 Going Postal 0

I hated school, but I enjoyed technical drawing. One reason was that I got it from the very first day. For some reason, I could visualise in 3D those flat drawings. I guess my brain [more…]

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