A quick look back at my “alma mater’ (1980). This was filmed 3 years after I had left in 1983, and just before this system was abolished due to abuse and cruelty. For any fellow inmates wanting to say hello, I was in Bentley Dorm. They wouldn’t even let me have my mobile phone,…
Author: Alf
Howards End
62 hours of pure joy; for little more than a large whiskey. 62 hours of not wasting precious funds on booze, to be told; “Vapers Not Welcome”. Is it any wonder that a record number of so called “pubs”, closed last month? Truth is, there are hardly any real “boozers” left – ever since John…
Whatever happened to the British boozer?
To be continued
The Public gets what the Public wants
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A Letter To The Editor (2007)
Dear Editor, As was to be expected, there has been much written in recent weeks concerning the recently imposed ban on smoking in public places, and I would like to take the opportunity through your excellent, unbiased and campaigning newspaper, to say how much my life, and the the lives of my friends and family…