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Ring! Ring! Mind Your Bling! (updated August 1st 2026)

Curteis jewellery replatingThe Tap Blog started twenty years ago. I had retired and gone to live in Manila. Being eight hours ahead gave me time to analyse the various newsfeeds and write something pertinent before the western world awoke. It was conventionally political writing, until 2009 when a reader sent in a comment suggesting I studied some videos and writings of Dr Stan Monteith of Radio Liberty in Monterrey Bay. This was 2009. Read more...


Very Strange Migrant Hotel in Datchet, Immediately next door to Windsor ( and Windsor Castle ), Stone’s Throw from Windsor Great Park

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdJGDlzeCv8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdJGDlzeCv8 In our 114th video, we undertake citizen journalism by investigating The Hotel Manor in Datchet (SL3 postcode). This one was very strange. Very secretive. Windows covered up. No entrance except for a non-descript garden gate. One of the migrants was friendly & let me in, but security (after staring at his phone), rushed me straight …

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