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Friday – Lucky or Unlucky?
Good Friday, Black Friday, Hanging Day, Luckiest Day, Unluckiest Day, Adam’s birthday.. and Friday the thirteenth. Friday means different things to different people but for me, I shall just be watching a horror film.
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Bandy Legs, Medicine Head & Loschian Models – a perfect day for a student
Pretty much a perfect day – for me as a student in London in 1976. Morning and afternoon lectures, lunchtime and evening gigs, plenty of beer – all for £2.91!
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iPad!
No.70 Thursday, 12th.February 2026 For over 10 years I have written my diary in a well-known app for that purpose on my iPad. But the app died this morning and I have failed to revive it. However, it is still working on iPhone and Mac, but since typing this on the iPhone is fiddly and…
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Newton Abbot in Old Pictures: The Globe Hotel To Let, 1992
By July 1992 the old Globe Hotel was up for sale, and had not yet morphed into another building in the Austin’s Department Store empire.
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Memories of Spring?
No.69 Wednesday, 11th.February 2026 We have light to moderate cloud cover this morning which means one thing: we have a modicum of blue sky and even sunny periods. I suppose that could be two things, but then blue skies and sunshine are inexorably linked, like twins who will never be seen apart. It feels like…
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Intercepting Rain!
Tuesday, 10th.February 2026 It is unusually quiet this morning. The recycling team have been and gone. A neighbour has just this moment switched off her heating: the plume of water vapour through the flue in her wall – horizontal in the still air – has ceased. Somebody has called a gas fitter; a sky-blue British…
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