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The Death Railway, Part Five

1st May 2024 Going Postal 1998 Comments

David Lean’s 1957 film depicted the bridge as a significant timber structure located in the deep jungle, spanning a narrow river featuring rocks and rapids. This is of course a work of fiction and was [more…]

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The Death Railway, Part Four

24th April 2024 Going Postal 2211 Comments

Step forward to the present day; SWMBO and I have been visiting Thailand for many years and decided it was time to head out to the Death Railway as Grandad Humbug had been in Burma [more…]

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The Death Railway, Part Three

17th April 2024 Going Postal 1890 Comments

Railway Construction Initially, the railway construction schedule allowed reasonable working conditions to be imposed on the POWs who, at that time, formed the majority of the skilled workforce. This combined with the fact that the [more…]

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The Death Railway, Part Two

10th April 2024 Going Postal 1894 Comments

The preparatory work was completed by early September 1942 and construction began both in Burma and Thailand on the 16th of that month. Many of the Japanese engineers had attended British universities before heading back [more…]

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The Death Railway

3rd April 2024 Going Postal 1943 Comments

Most Puffins will have watched David Lean’s 1957 film The Bridge on the River Kwai which is based on a novel published five years previously by French author Pierre Boulle. Whilst both book and film [more…]

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The Christmas Cake, Part Two

1st November 2023 Going Postal 2583 Comments

In the previous weeks you’ll have been diligently nurturing, talking to and feeding your cake creation with some fine brandy or Armagnac using the timeless cook’s measure of “one for me, one for the cake”. [more…]

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The Christmas Cake, Part One

31st October 2023 Going Postal 2570 Comments

It’s a somewhat inclement Sunday morning approaching the end of October, the lawn which just a few short weeks ago was dead and brown is now lush and green but under an inch of water [more…]

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Christmas Cake – Part II

12th December 2022 Going Postal 3643 Comments

Back in October (before Goldman Sachs Sunk became PM), part 1 of the 2022 Christmas Cake creation was published, see here. Since then our new leader has shown himself to be nothing more than another [more…]

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The Christmas Cake

25th October 2022 Going Postal 3591 Comments

It’s a somewhat inclement Sunday morning approaching the end of October, the lawn which just a few short weeks ago was dead and brown is now lush and green but under an inch of water [more…]

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