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Dog-walking Thoughts No 4 – There Is A Natural Order To All Things

20th November 2025 Going Postal 0

Nature is the great repairer. This, I know, is not a Nobel-prize winning discovery. We see it everywhere every year and certainly where man has moved on and abandoned anywhere to the ‘elements’. Nature cleans [more…]

History

Postcard From Northumberland, Part One

19th November 2025 Going Postal 0

Some time back, Mrs JT decided we needed another break and arranged to rent a remote holiday let in Northumberland. I have been suffering from a chronic chest infection for most of the year but [more…]

Arts

From Tangible to Digital: The Shift from Physical to Virtual Media

18th November 2025 Going Postal 0

In the past few decades, we’ve witnessed a profound transformation in how we create, share, and preserve our memories and communications. The digital revolution has reshaped the landscape of human expression, moving us from the [more…]

Literature

An Old Man’s Musings Part Forty-Five

16th November 2025 Going Postal 0

Thank you all you lovely people for your kind comments and encouragement on my articles. One such  from Audrey’s Daughter using the phrase – A way with words has given me the opportunity to air [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Five

16th November 2025 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning, my friends. Back to the old routine, a trip down the chilly garden before my Felix. The Robber Reeves house rental saga got a bit worse over the weekend when it emerged [more…]

Fiction

Downfall, Chapter Fifteen

15th November 2025 Going Postal 0

They walked up and down both sides of the street, it was quiet, Trevor was correct, there was no place to hide. They got coffees from a kebab shop, Dave said he would take the [more…]

Arts

Fabulously Flamboyant Friday: Pirates! Pt.2

14th November 2025 Going Postal 0

Ahoy shipmates! Avast behind, shiver me timbers and please be welcome – ya scurvy, land-lubbery dogs – to tonight’s Fabulously Flamboyant Friday and yet another of our fortnightly mastications upon the marshmallowy pillows of musical [more…]

Arts

Jinnie’s Story, Book Nine – Chapter Five

13th November 2025 Going Postal 0

Jinnie lay in bed listening to the twins chatting to each other through the interconnecting door. She couldn’t hear what they were saying, but she knew it was them and not the TV, as they [more…]

Arts

Ocean-to-Ocean, Part 10

12th November 2025 Going Postal 0

The ultimate destination of this Ocean-to-Ocean trip, which started in Southampton six weeks ago, is the small town of Tofino, right on the Pacific Coast of Vancouver Island. It’s not the most westerly point in [more…]

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    Chapter 30 – Goodbye, Mark Edge In April Edge was discharged from the hospital in Faro and referred to a local hospital for ongoing physiotherapy. He made a remarkable recovery due to his fitness, determination [more...]
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    We shall remain in Geneva in the 1980s for a little longer before moving around Lake Geneva in a clockwise direction in the 1950s. Does that make any sense? Our first photo this time is [more...]
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    A little confession first. This is a bit of a cheat ‘postcard’ because, although I have visited this lovely seaside town many times, I also lived there for a blissful year or so, overlooking Cardiff [more...]
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    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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