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

16th June 2024 Going Postal 2698 Comments

Monday Good morning everyone and it’s beautifully warm and sunny here in Westminster today, although it looks like summer ends tomorrow. The election announcements keep coming thick and fast, and I am wondering why the [more…]

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Classic Railway Journeys of a different kind

30th May 2024 Going Postal 2478 Comments

As one or two of you may have noticed, I have recently passed a Notable Birthday milestone. (thanks to all who sent good wishes, BTW).  One pf the many prezzies received was  one from Mrs [more…]

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Larry’s Diary – Week Two Hundred And Thirty-Six

26th May 2024 Going Postal 2483 Comments

Monday Good morning merry readers, and welcome to another week of my scribbles. No sun this morning, and not as warm as yesterday, but the sweaters have disappeared from the office. So, the Rich Boy [more…]

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Postcard From Edinburgh

25th May 2024 Always Worth Saying 1900 Comments

Gentleman and lady travellers of a certain age may be divided into two tribes: Princess or Market. I’ve always been a Princess man. Let me explain. Arrival at Edinburgh Waverley always drew me up the [more…]

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Postcard From Peter Hitchens, Part Five

18th May 2024 Always Worth Saying 1789 Comments

I’ve been following Daily Mail columnist and author Peter Hitchens – literally. The surprise being we only recently fell into correspondence. Both of us are keen on railways and church, enjoyed minor public school and [more…]

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Return to Brigg

18th May 2024 Joe Slater 1838 Comments

A few weeks back I did a piece on the spectacular Alishan mountain line in Taiwan. One day, I might do something on the Gono line around the wild, craggy northwest coast of Honshu. Or [more…]

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Larry’s Diary – Week Two Hundred And Thirty-One

21st April 2024 Going Postal 2174 Comments

Monday Good morning readers it’s a rather pleasant morning mild and a bit of sunshine but it’s going to rain again later. I enjoyed my trip down the garden in the sun and found a [more…]

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Postcard From Peter Hitchens, Part Four

20th April 2024 Always Worth Saying 1699 Comments

Having enough in common with Peter Hitchens to engage in correspondence, I put pen to paper after spying an entertaining railway-orientated thread on his X account. Eventually, he wrote back. Or rather, eventually I found [more…]

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Postcard From Peter Hitchens, Part Three

13th April 2024 Always Worth Saying 2711 Comments

I might have offended Peter Hitchens by mentioning during a Question Time Review that he never replied to a letter of mine. After finding his response propped up and neglected in my hallway, I felt [more…]

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