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Return To The Jernbanemysterium, Part Three

22nd March 2025 Always Worth Saying 1536 Comments

Let’s cut to the quick and get down to brass tacks. Or rather cut to a railway line on the icy wastes of central Norway and investigate a strange trackside anomaly only visible to sharp-eyed [more…]

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Return To The Jernbanemysterium, Part Two

15th March 2025 Always Worth Saying 2124 Comments

Did we ever get to Lille? Those who know, know. Yes, we did, at about episode 70 of this humble racenteur’s hitty-missy Postcard of the same name that was once a staple of Saturday evening [more…]

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Return To The Jernbanemysterium

8th March 2025 Always Worth Saying 2119 Comments

A phrase lingers in the mind. In passing, Mr. DH — my colleague, a fellow Puffin to us all, and master of that mysterious gift known as the turn of phrase — once summed up [more…]

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European Journey 1953, Part Five – Vienna

24th September 2024 Going Postal 2147 Comments

Where a smile masks a city’s sorrow This a Tale from the Vienna Woods. A Tale told on a spring morning when, from the white cafe tables perched high on the Kahlenberg, the Danube really [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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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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Postcard From Peter Hitchens, Part Two

6th April 2024 Always Worth Saying 1444 Comments

I offended Peter Hitchens. After claiming he’d ignored my letter, I found his reply propped in the alleyway that connects my letter box to the kitchen and garage doors. A white envelope sat undiscovered for [more…]

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Postcard From Keflavik

4th February 2024 Always Worth Saying 2098 Comments

Art and the terminal Puffins who can see an enviably empty airport car park in the middle of nowhere with the skeleton of a nosedived B-52 embedded in the tarmac embarrassingly far from any runway, [more…]

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