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

30th March 2025 Going Postal 1995 Comments

Monday Good morning, folks. It’s been raining overnight and is still dull and cold. Legohead is not very happy today—he has just seen the results of the latest MRP poll on the local election, and [more…]

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Boxing Day Past

27th December 2024 Always Worth Saying 2208 Comments

Yes, I know it isn’t Boxing Day, it’s the day after, but not being around a century ago I can’t repeat the newses from those days with the usual mildly exaggerated and slightly embellished personal [more…]

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Army vs Navy

15th December 2024 well_chuffed 2097 Comments

Bear with me Puffins. Murcan fitba. Have patience, your sanity will be preserved. Most of us have probably heard of the NFL and their Superbowl. Well you can forget that. There is another league of [more…]

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About Little Women

23rd August 2024 Always Worth Saying 2526 Comments

We play a game at work with girls’ heights. There is a reason for this. Colleagues are going to build a tunnel to the shop next door and steal their toys. To confuse the local [more…]

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Larry’s Diary – Week Two Hundred And Forty-Three

4th August 2024 Going Postal 4163 Comments

Monday Good morning and it is not a very nice morning here in London, although it’s quite warm it is very dull, and I wouldn’t be the slightest bit surprised if it rained again. Obviously, [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse; This Sporting Life

22nd March 2022 Colin Cross 3395 Comments

Life carries on much as normal, given the increasingly bizarre times we live in. The weather, thankfully, has picked up and jobs that have been on hold for a couple of weeks have risen to [more…]

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Disaster at Munich

21st March 2022 Going Postal 3627 Comments

Another chapter from “Special Assignment” by my uncle John Alldridge (published in 1960 and now long out of print) A good reporter must be impersonal. He must write the story as he finds it, without [more…]

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Seventies Hard Times And Hard Men

17th August 2021 Always Worth Saying 3856 Comments

There is a shortage of lorry drivers, micro-chips and articles. Strange times that allow me permission to ramble. Put the thesaurus away. Forget about those long German words. If Shakespeare or Bernard Shaw or Oscar [more…]

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It’s all about the half time oranges!

11th August 2021 Going Postal 3424 Comments

I’ve often wondered whether there is a time in a football match that is the most likely point at which a goal might be scored.   Perhaps in the first few minutes when the goalie is [more…]

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