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I like Blogger.  Since beginning this drivel several years ago Blogger has brought me into contact with many strange and far flung pa...

With the 1/5th Essex in the East. by Lt. Col. T. Gibbons, D S.O. There is nothing like first hand accounts of an incident or occa...

There was an interesting discussion with a couple of chaps who visited the museum today.  Like many visitors the visit took a couple ...

Now I am not one to complain, everyone knows that.  However in the months leading up to Christmas I have been inundated with chancers in...

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I've been doing my teeth no good whatsoever by stuffing, with both hands, into my gob the 'Oor Wullie,' 'Scottish But...

Thursday sees this part of the world return to normal, supermarkets are flooded with starving people eager to resupply the empty cupb...

Wishing a Guid New Year to ane and a,'  and mony may there be! .

The year endeth as it most probably began, with rain lashing the town.  A close look will reveal in the far distance the ebbing sun, thu...

I was listening to an old radio programme on an old tape recorder and got pondering about something that was said.  The people of...

Late last night I spent some time attempting to identify a high pitched whistle. Being late, cold and dark I wondered what sort of bi...

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I call this 'Diet Friday,' but not in referring to myself.  My slim, malnourished, eight stone body needs no diet that I am...

On Christmas morning it is the silence that is most noticeable.  The ebb and flow of daily traffic ceases, chattering passersby fail to ...

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'Twas Christmas eve in the workhouse And all was quiet and still...' So I took myself off out for a break.  I need to...

Dunmore Pineapple In days of yore, before they were grown in tins, pineapples were extremely expensive and found only in the dwelli...

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Jerry , who is going through another second childhood,  insists on posting cartoons. This would be fine if it were cartoons I en...

As the sun went down in the west, one goes down there each night there must be loads of them lying about there, I wandered abroad attem...