20th Century
The Desert War – July 1942
The month of July 80 years ago sees what became known as the 1st Battle of El Alamein, the 2nd would become the more famous one. In the first one the German advance was halted [more…]
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Elections
Will we just make a cup of tea?
Do the math as our American cousins say. Keith has said he wants to form a Labour government but has no intention of negotiating with any other Party either before or after the election. We [more…]
Business
Working in Kuwait
On the 22nd May 1978 at the tender age of 27, me and ‘er indoors flew to Kuwait so I could go and work. It was a bit of an adventure, I had no idea [more…]
Conservatives
The Milk Snatcher
Many puffins seem to be big fans of Margaret Thatcher. I have to agree that she was the best Prime Minister since WW2 and was very patriotic. So good was she that all subsequent ones [more…]
Conservatives
Boris Johnson’s guarantee
Even an old cynic like me was taken aback when the fat Turk came out with his “I want to stay a few more weeks to continue implementing our manifesto.” Firstly can I introduce you [more…]
Computing
A visit to Kuala Lumpur
Back in the 80s and 90s in my IT life I did a lot of work on something called platform migrations. If your eyes haven’t already glazed over imagine taking Windoze programs and automatically converting [more…]
20th Century
The Desert War – June 1942
80 years ago in June things started to look bleak in the desert, the Axis was on the advance and we were retreating. At sea the Royal Navy was just as busy and the convoys [more…]
Arts
Educayshun, educayshun, educayshun
It all sounded so wonderful. Loads more, up to 5 times more, graduates coming into the workplace, it couldn’t help but improve the country. We would be flooded with doctors and engineers. What a wonderful [more…]
20th Century
The Desert War – May 1942
The May of 80 years ago finally saw some desert action in Libya but not until later in the month, all the navies were busy attacking ships and the air forces were attacking everything. Convoys [more…]