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Why do the English (*) drink so much?

18th August 2026 Going Postal 0

This is a question asked by all foreigners, who look on in horror as we binge-drink our way through the week, stumbling through the streets in various states of inebriation. As though I were talking [more…]

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Postcard from Cornwall (Porthleven)

1st September 2025 Going Postal 0

It must be close on 20 years since we last holidayed in Cornwall.  We used to go every summer when our children were young but the lure of foreign holidays and the dread of getting [more…]

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A View From (Just Outside) The Greenhouse; Englishness

15th April 2025 Colin Cross 0

My loyal reader may well remember the buildings and maintenance department, at my request, taking the big saw to the plum tree, which at the time was riddled with canker, if an attempt to encourage [more…]

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Riots, Royals & Petitions For Parliamentary Reform

15th August 2024 Going Postal 0

It’s standard practice when a making a complaint that one: articulates the complaint to the appropriate person in writing says what would resolve the complaint i.e. what you want them to do Why should it [more…]

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Cabot Tower and Brandon Hill

5th August 2024 Going Postal 0

Recently I had to drop Master Reggie off at the Bristol Royal Infirmary for a hospital appointment and had a couple of hours to kill so I decided to revisit some places I hadn’t been [more…]

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Book Review: The Shortest History of England

2nd August 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

‘The Shortest History of England’ by James Hawes is not too short and tops the scales at 272 pages. A bright chap, the 64-year-old writer graduated in German from Hertford College, Oxford, and studied for [more…]

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Postcard from Saint Agnes

29th January 2024 Going Postal 0

I suppose the best way to start this article is to say it has almost nothing to do with St Agnes, the patron saint of girls, although rather weirdly I am unintentionally writing it on [more…]

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A Postcard from Tewkesbury

22nd January 2024 Going Postal 0

Finding ourselves at a loose end a few weeks ago Mrs Reggie and I decided it was time for us to have a day trip to somewhere we haven’t been to previously.  Tewkesbury is less [more…]

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Festive Postcard from Cirencester

23rd December 2023 Going Postal 0

For many years, Mrs. 10210 and I would head to London for a long weekend in December. However we had become fed up with the hustle and bustle as well as the feeling of being [more…]

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