It has been a few years since I wrote, and published, In My Own Lynchtime - a personal collection of anecdotes about my life, short stories and poems about people and events I have been around for. Now it is time to look again, for I did not have a lot of room for many of my lifetime experiences, and this time will be a little different. I have sub-titled it Dagenham Posted because many of the personal stories this time relate to my early years in Dagenham / Ilford, and which I have since written for the Dagenham Post. There are also the short stories and a poem or two that never found their way into the previous book, but there is more. Having reached the celebrated age of 'three score years and ten' (plus 1) I also hold some opinions about the world we live in - most people of my generation do. Since it would be hard to find a more accessible public and personal platform than this one, I am including some of them here. These are 'me' on my soapbox! In this way I hope my words will reach down the years to my children's children and to theirs, to persuade them of the stupidity of drug abuse for example, and tell them of my views on other relevant topics. So, as last time, I seek to inform, to entertain, and stimulate opinion as much as arouse indignation. I need to tell it how it was, for us in a constantly changing world. A world in which for us as kids, life essentials like mobile phones and computers were the stuff of 'science fiction'. We survived the Luftwaffe and as adults we lived under the threat of nuclear war. Brian Lynch December 2006