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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After writing my “Can You Think Back” Article, I started thinking back again. Sometimes memories get lost with time, and I am now going backmore than 50 years!.
The youth of the country at that time, really only had one chance to take to the road, it was the motor cycle. Dads buying cars for [...]

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Can you think of a time when you did not have a television? No I thought not ! That got me thinking about the things that have happened in my lifetime, and some of the things that my Father would never have believed.
He was born at the turn of the century (not this one - [...]

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DONT EVER RETIRE?
But we have to one day. Maybe you are very young reading this and retirement is a long way off, but I bet your birthdays are seeming to come round quicker as you get older. My point is that one day you will be retiring (if your boss hasn’t worked you to death) [...]

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DO THE SPANISH EAT DONUTS ?. Part One.
During one phase of my long life, I was a Market Trader. I sold many different products and travelled hundreds of miles all over the South of England attending markets. It was hard work, but a lot of fun. I worked as I have so many times with [...]

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Do you have a small Garden.?
SAVE A LARGE AMMOUNT OF MONEY IN A small GARDEN.
You don’t have to have a big garden to grow your own?.
That’s all very well to say that, but maybe you don’t have a garden at all. But if you have room for a few pots or tubs, then you have [...]

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