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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Seventy-Six

13th April 2025 Going Postal 1911 Comments

Monday Good morning, and what a beautiful sunny morning it is. It’s nice and warm, and there is a clear blue sky, quite appropriate for my 18th birthday. Legohead is off to an immigration summit [more…]

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

9th March 2025 Going Postal 2385 Comments

Monday Good morning and welcome to another week of my ramblings. It’s rather wet this morning but still not cold. Legohead went off to Scottishland to speak to a half-empty hall of Scottishland Liebore supporters. [more…]

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

2nd February 2025 Going Postal 2671 Comments

Monday Good morning, Puffins, and welcome to Trump Day. It all kicks off at 5 p.m. GMT when he is inaugurated, and this cat can’t wait. The news is that he has over 200 presidential [more…]

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

15th December 2024 Going Postal 2090 Comments

Monday Good morning all, it was bright and sunny early on, but the sun has gone now and it’s grey. Today we have the new numbers out for Channel migrants, 20,210 since the Government came [more…]

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Report From Kenya, 1955 – Part Eight

13th August 2024 Going Postal 2973 Comments

In 1955, at the height of the Mau Mau Rebellion, my uncle John Alldridge produced a series of reports from Kenya for the Birmingham Mail and the Manchester Evening News – Jerry F Wally’s lion [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Forty Nine

26th June 2022 Going Postal 2871 Comments

Monday Good morning folks, it started off sunny and warm this morning but as I dictate this it is clouding up. Bozzie is in fine fettle this morning, his spies tell him that Stoma is [more…]

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Gardening In A Pandemic & Adventures in Photography; The Living World

24th May 2020 Colin Cross 3169 Comments

Welcome back to the greenhouse. I touched on it briefly in my last missive from the garden, but one of the problems with having an inordinate amount of time on ones hands is finding something [more…]

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The Devil’s Bird

4th August 2019 rattuscatchus 3101 Comments

Some of you may have not read any comments by myself regarding swifts during the Summer months, usually noting their arrival, their numbers and when they leave. I’m not quite sure why but for me, [more…]

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