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Reading Cloggo

 
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Reading Cloggo’s posts is always an adventure.
For a man who has mostly stayed in one place all his life, he has been around — his imagination has made sure of that.


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In the one yarn the gnarled old Yorkshireman can slip in a history lesson, with more than a sliver of autobiography, and (for example) a lecture on popular reading of the mid-20th century, which is ancient history to most people reading here. You really ought to look him up if you haven’t.

In this item, I learnt about the relationship between The Saint (as it should have been) and my beloved Avengers, Steed and Mrs Peel, and quite a lot about fetish cars into the bargain.

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