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Solstice Day

Posted on 21st December 2022 by 192.168.1.1

Postman Pat was a favourite in our house in the early 90s.  We would sit and read stories and watch videos of life in Greendale and when driving through Cumbria would tell imagined stories of the Greendale community living their … Continue reading →

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Fear induced by Glenn Miller?

Posted on 15th December 2022 by 192.168.1.1

It was on this day in 1944 that the aircraft carrying the American bandleader Glenn Miller. It would have been three days before my late father’s eighth birthday, yet decades later he would talk about the music of Glenn Miller. … Continue reading →

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There’s no secret

Posted on 13th December 2022 by 192.168.1.1

‘You hard-shelled materialists were all balanced on the very edge of belief — of belief in almost anything,’ says G.K. Chesterton’s Father Brown in the 1924 tale The Miracle of Moon Crescent. Chesterton seems to have possesses an extraordinary prescience … Continue reading →

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ABE

Posted on 10th December 2022 by 192.168.1.1

There were celebrations in bars around Dublin this evening as Harry Kane’s penalty kick flew high over the French goal. The cheers at the final whistle were loud. This evening’s World Cup quarter=final result recalled and apocryphal story I heard … Continue reading →

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Australia

Posted on 7th December 2022 by 192.168.1.1

A friend is going home to Australia for Christmas. To someone for whom Australia is a land in the imagination, it seems something from a childhood dream. Ideas of Australia had come from a jigsaw puzzle. Perhaps it had come … Continue reading →

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