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Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Forty-Eight

1st November 2026 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning, my happy readers. Well, another chilly morning, and I woke up to the central heating on again. I am very thankful to whoever it was who moved my cat basket next to [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Forty-Five

11th October 2026 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning, my happy readers. It was grey, grotty and chilly this morning when I went out, so I suppose autumn is well and truly here. It’s rather nice here in Number Ten, as [more…]

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

20th September 2026 Going Postal 0

Monday Good Morning, my happy readers. It was dull and grey when I headed out for my morning poo behind the gardener’s shed. On my return, my duty feeder was pottering around, my grub was [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Forty

6th September 2026 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning, my happy readers. It’s the start of another week of madness in Westminster and lots of tales from your ageing cat reporter. It was a little chilly overnight. I woke up in [more…]

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The Railway’s sleepers: the Patron, the builder and the Polymath

17th August 2026 Going Postal 0

A final journey into history to meet three men whose names never sadly made it into popular memory but who, like all the others, laid the foundations still used by the railways to this day. [more…]

18th Century

Nicholas Wood: The man who wrote the book on railways

10th August 2026 Going Postal 0

He taught Robert Stephenson his trade, judged the Rainhill Trials, and wrote the first proper book on railways, the one that engineers across the world actually used. Not all of us can be gallivanting around [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Thirty-Five

2nd August 2026 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning, my happy readers. It is a momentous day in the Street today. It’s the last day of Legohead’s premiership and the first day of Mascara Man, my seventh PM and probably not [more…]

18th Century

Edward Pease: the Grandfather of the railways

27th July 2026 Going Postal 0

George Stephenson gets the statues. But a plain-dressing Quaker wool merchant from Darlington put up the money, drove the Act through Parliament, and hired Stephenson in the first place. He helped found the world’s first [more…]

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A Plutocrats Tour of The North, Part Seven

18th July 2026 Always Worth Saying 0

For generations, the phrase “grim up north” has lingered in the national imagination — conjuring images of soot-stained skylines, struggling towns, and industries long past their prime. It is a shorthand that flattens the region [more…]

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