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17th March 2025 Going Postal 2203 Comments

Apartheid was in its last breath. A state of Emergency existed in the country. Military on the streets and weekly bomb drills at school. This morning though, I found myself at the entrance to the [more…]

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

2nd June 2024 Going Postal 1902 Comments

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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Once Quarried From The Old Testament

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They say you should never meet your heroes. Is this a recent phenomenon? Certainly, you’d be advised to make an excuse and leave if you think a chief constable is about to enter the room. [more…]

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Slow Boats To Africa

30th May 2023 Going Postal 2379 Comments

Previously, in “The Sore Seated Safari”, we followed one Charles Henry Freeman and some compatriots, on a 1929 road trip from the town of Iringa, in Tanganyika, to Nairobi in Kenya. But what were they [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Twenty Four

19th December 2021 Going Postal 2545 Comments

Monday Morning everybody, a little damp this morning. I had a surprise when I was eating my breakfast, there appeared to be a policeman in the kitchen. However, it turned out to be Bozzie dressed [more…]

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The Real Goldfinger?

20th April 2021 Going Postal 2032 Comments

Whilst doing some research for a future article in the ‘Going for Gold’ series I came across an interesting story which I thought would make for a separate article in its own right. Charles W. [more…]

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Savings must come first – cash is a mere diversion, part two

31st March 2020 Emile Woolf 3029 Comments

I am writing this in South Africa, where its currency, the rand, provides a useful illustration of the effects of monetary inflation described in Part 1. When I was last here, three years ago, the [more…]

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Jonathon Jay Pollard

12th February 2020 well_chuffed 2258 Comments

Jonathon Jay Pollard’s name cropped up in Ronen Bergman’s book. The Israelis wanted to attack PLO targets in Tunisia and the USA would not release any details they had about the air defences though it [more…]

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