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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred and Seventy Eight

27th April 2025 Going Postal 2180 Comments

Monday Good morning, and it looks like today could be the last day of decent weather, with rain forecast for tomorrow morning. I was not surprised to see that Parliament was busy on Saturday, but [more…]

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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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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Sixty-One

8th December 2024 Going Postal 2700 Comments

Monday Good morning all, it was raining when I first woke up, but now I have had my Felix the sun is out and the sky is blue. Legohead had a ‘summit meeting’ in No. [more…]

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2,4,6,8 Motorway

13th September 2023 Going Postal 2178 Comments

Back when motoring was fun…. Tom Robinson was singing this song about our road network to us back in the Seventies, when he wasn’t sharing his anthemic “Sing if you’re glad to be gay”. That [more…]

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Larry’s Diary – Week One Hundred and Seventy-Two

29th January 2023 Going Postal 3059 Comments

Monday Good morning everyone, and welcome to another week in the fun palace that is Westminster. My, didn’t it rain last night, I don’t know how many times the rain beating on the windows woke [more…]

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One Small Step for Man… Brindley and the Trent and Mersey Canal

16th September 2022 SharpieType301 2026 Comments

In an earlier piece, I mentioned the Trent and Mersey Canal, with its company headquarters in Stone, hinting that its history and the political shenanigans behind its construction might be worth an article in its [more…]

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Postcard from Sunny Skeg

15th December 2021 SharpieType301 3724 Comments

The announcement over the two-carriage rattle-trap train’s tannoy told us this we’d reached the terminus and bid us ‘Welcome to sunny Skegness’. Bearing in mind this was December on the East Coast, these wry words [more…]

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