Charles Nevin
@charlesnevin.bsky.social
Author, Miscellanarian and Dedicated Follower of St Helens, non pareil exponents of the north country's greatest game, Rugby League.
Big Geoff, No News & The Joy Riders
More from the Other Country...
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April 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Cease that scrolling, and discover bears and bisons, putti, hunky punks and a certain Swede:
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Bears, Bisons & Bologna
Further despatches from the old world
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April 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Cease that scrolling, and discover bears and bisons, putti, hunky punks and a certain Swede:
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Relax into the past with Eliza Doolittle, Queen Victoria and Lord Clark of Civilisation:
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Freddy, Eliza & Furniture
Edwardian larks, railway dreams, and a cad
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April 12, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Relax into the past with Eliza Doolittle, Queen Victoria and Lord Clark of Civilisation:
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Spend your Sunday relaxing with Gene Pitney, Rabelais, Kafka, Marx, Bootsie, Snudge and Frosty:
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Tulsa, Marxists & Snudge
Another retreat to the marginalia of the past
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April 6, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Spend your Sunday relaxing with Gene Pitney, Rabelais, Kafka, Marx, Bootsie, Snudge and Frosty:
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More things you didn't need to know then and don't need to know now, including the Emperor Haile Selassie's suiting and Graham Greene's hidden assets:
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Gods, Nipples & Cooeee!
More siftings of things past from home and abroad
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April 2, 2025 at 11:02 AM
More things you didn't need to know then and don't need to know now, including the Emperor Haile Selassie's suiting and Graham Greene's hidden assets:
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The latest unmissable edition of my miscellany of nostalgia and other entertaining irrelevancies...
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Piano, Poetry & Flat Jack
More varying reports from back then
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March 26, 2025 at 7:57 AM
The latest unmissable edition of my miscellany of nostalgia and other entertaining irrelevancies...
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Miscellany time again, with Pushkin, McGonagall, Sartre, Sinatra and Marlowe (P):
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Duelling, Doggerel & Gumshoe
More vital if often useless information from before
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March 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Miscellany time again, with Pushkin, McGonagall, Sartre, Sinatra and Marlowe (P):
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Important lessons from George Formby, the Bishop of Rochester, and Lord Curzon:
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Puddings, Prelates & Trousers
More escapism masquerading as information
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March 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Important lessons from George Formby, the Bishop of Rochester, and Lord Curzon:
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More deep dives into the shallow end of the Past: to be taken daily or binged (!):
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Voltaire, Smudger & Joyce
A varied menu of miscellaneous matters now passed
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March 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
More deep dives into the shallow end of the Past: to be taken daily or binged (!):
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Top weekend winding-down material: Marx, Engels and Churchill hunting, plus America's puzzling origin story...
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Hunting Communists, Mad Jack & Amerigo
Further odd ends, digressions and diversions
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March 7, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Top weekend winding-down material: Marx, Engels and Churchill hunting, plus America's puzzling origin story...
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Mistakes, puns and Ernst Lubitsch: my miscellany for the next few days...
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Graun, Groan & Benny
Escape to mistakes, bad puns and dictator baiting
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March 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Mistakes, puns and Ernst Lubitsch: my miscellany for the next few days...
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Read the one about the scientist, the preacher, the structuralist and the crab:
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Freeman, Wesley & Niven
Further meanderings through the interesting Past
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February 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Read the one about the scientist, the preacher, the structuralist and the crab:
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Quotes, Sects & Spike
More exclusive pondering opportunities
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February 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Come back to the past: Clarence, that Malmsey, and the truth about the kangaroo:
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Clarence, kangaroos & pawns
More subjects for odd idle pondering over the next few days
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February 19, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Come back to the past: Clarence, that Malmsey, and the truth about the kangaroo:
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Love, Quirks and Quarks
Solace from the Past for the next few days
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February 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Escape from all this present daftness to the past...
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Trains and trays and Cellini
More vintage escapism for those battered by the Present...
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February 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Escape from all this present daftness to the past...
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Have a read about the world's least successful newspaper and Shakespeare's way with a death...
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Adlai, Stockport & Shakers
More times of then...
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February 6, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Have a read about the world's least successful newspaper and Shakespeare's way with a death...
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Take a break from all this and come back to the past:
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Emperors, Burgers and Old Cucumbers
More bulletins and curiosities from the past
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February 3, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Take a break from all this and come back to the past:
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Stop your scrolling and come with me back to the past:
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Chic times, old stories, and poor
January 29
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January 29, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Stop your scrolling and come with me back to the past:
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Divert away from today with my miscellany of past wit, wisdom and whimsical curiosities...
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Saxon jinks, Lenin's Ear & Spirits
The next few days long ago and far away
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January 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Divert away from today with my miscellany of past wit, wisdom and whimsical curiosities...
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Come away to an older world:
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Tum-Tum, Dentures & Petruchio
Escape reality with my odd miscellany
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January 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Come away to an older world:
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Some trivia and diversion to cleanse the intellectual palate:
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Lassie, Oscar and Chopin
My Miscellany for the coming days...
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January 19, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Some trivia and diversion to cleanse the intellectual palate:
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Come away from all this and into my miscellany of past wit, wisdom and whimsical curiosities:
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Firsts, Lasts & Twelfth
Fascinating facts and finding on the last seven days
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January 6, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Come away from all this and into my miscellany of past wit, wisdom and whimsical curiosities:
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