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Tom Pudding, Going Postal
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How to tackle the Going Postal crossword

23rd May 2020 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction When I started work for the local council in 1964, I shared an office with a secretary, the high point of whose life seemed to be the arrival of the monthly NALGO newspaper which [more…]

Engineering

“And what have the Romans ever done for us?”

4th May 2020 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction It is interesting that in Monty Python’s ‘Life of Brian’ when Reg , the leader of The People’s Front of Judaea, poses that question the very first response he receives from his gang of [more…]

Tom Pudding, Going Postal
20th Century

A Massacre of the Innocents

17th April 2020 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction On Saturday 10 June, 1944, while heading north towards Normandy to help counter the Allied D-Day invasion, German troops of the Der Führer Regiment of the SS Panzer Division Das Reich, committed an unthinkable [more…]

Health

It started with a piss – Part Three

9th March 2020 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction In Parts 1 and 2 I told the tale of how a routine scan as part of an investigation into a urinary tract infection had revealed a large (63mm) abdominal aortic aneurysm (Triple A) [more…]

Tom Pudding, Going Postal
19th Century

A Labour of Love

4th February 2020 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction Hidden away in the heart of France’s Drôme region about 50km south of Lyon is a little known yet magnificently eccentric example of naïve architecture that is well worth a detour or, in my [more…]

Health

It started with a piss – Part Two

23rd January 2020 Tom Pudding 0

First off, aorta explain that the above pun doesn’t really work when the blood vessel that is the subject of these articles is an artery and not a vein but try as I will, I [more…]

Health

It started with a piss

19th December 2019 Tom Pudding 0

I don’t know why, but for me medical problems always seem to occur at the most inconvenient times possible, usually on a Saturday evening. And so it was one Saturday in late October 2019 when [more…]

20th Century

An Afternoon at the Sammy Miller Motorcycle Museum

20th May 2019 Tom Pudding 0

Although we moved from Yorkshire to the South Coast 38 years ago and despite living only two miles from his premises in New Milton, I had only once previously visited Sammy Miller’s wonderful motorcycle museum [more…]

19th Century

Milestones in Nineteenth Century Firearms Development, Part Eight

4th March 2019 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction During the first half of the 19th century great leaps forward were made in firearms technology and by the 1870s soldiers who 50 years earlier would have been supplied with flintlock, smoothbore muskets were [more…]

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