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

20th April 2025 Going Postal 2077 Comments

Monday Good morning and welcome to another week of the ramblings of your favourite cat reporter. A nice morning today again, but I’m delighted to be able to tell you that Legohead had a grotty [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Fifty

22nd September 2024 Going Postal 2348 Comments

Monday Good morning folks, well it was a little chilly early this morning and the thermostat turned the heating on so there was a nice warm radiator when I woke up. So tomorrow nearly 2,000 [more…]

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The Political Civil Servant

30th July 2024 Going Postal 4037 Comments

On one of AWS’s recent informative pieces on Scotland, he mentioned Waverley Station in Edinburgh and I mentioned in the comments (which nobody reads) that perhaps the most versatile civil servant ever, John Anderson, took [more…]

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Disaster at Lockerbie

13th July 2024 Always Worth Saying 3358 Comments

Returning home from our day trip to Edinburgh, myself and Mrs AWS have pause for thought as we eat our Burger Kings in Standard Premium and watch the Scottish Lowlands flash past from the train [more…]

19th Century

Disaster at Quintinshill

6th July 2024 Always Worth Saying 2545 Comments

Setting off from Edinburgh on a splendid May day, Mrs. AWS and I enjoy our Burger Kings. In the mad world of railway pricing, one of only two differences between Avanti Trains Standard Premium and [more…]

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Postcard From The King’s Gallery

1st June 2024 Always Worth Saying 1600 Comments

On our day trip to Edinburgh, Mrs AWS and I de-trained on Waverley’s Platform 9 at 12:17 prompt. While a disappointing first-class breakfast rattled in our tums, we allowed ourselves to be swept out of [more…]

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A Scottish Odyssey

8th May 2024 Godfrey Bloom 1657 Comments

The memsahib & I decided on one last Scottish tour of The Highlands, our fifth, before we run down the curtain. I have some Scottish ancestry, my grandmother’s clan was Bruce although a lowland clan [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse; Fear & Loathing In Dumfries & Galloway, Hate Crimes….Innit?

2nd April 2024 Colin Cross 1958 Comments

It was great to meet up with old friends and meet some new ones at the “Northern” get together. The more intrepid amongst the august gathering braved a short, if wet, walk down (and back [more…]

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A High Profile Arrest in Scotland

13th June 2023 DH 3407 Comments

F**k’s sake. Just back fae a dissaplinary heerin’ wi’ a pair ae complete f**kin’ c**ts frae tha profeshnul standards dapartment. It wis aboot f**kin’ hee haw an’ aw. A pure waste ae polis time ovah [more…]

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