Here is one anniversary that seems to have been missed.
It’s been 50 years (or thereabouts) that National Service came to an end. Much to the relief of many 18 year old lad, and the deferred 21 year old as well.
How different it all was then. The British Isles were pre-multiracial, and it would have been [...]

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I named this Blogsite “You’ve Got to Start Somewhere” when i first started Blogging, and and called the website “Bloggingnewbies.com,” you will have guessed that this was a new field for me to get involved in.
Well I am truly ensconsed into it now. I still make mistakes and I might write non to elegantly, but I [...]

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Getting near retirement?   Maybe this is not a good time! If you were like me when I first retired, I was hit by the 80’s slump, wiping more that £2,0000 from my “Nest-egg”. How sad is that.
So living with what was left over turned out to be OK with a bit of planning, but the [...]

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