01 Along The Highway

 

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Boys From Brisco Mount

Boys from Brisco Mount were not expected to be high achievers, although the brightest might attend Tech College and aspire to be fitters at the...
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I Miss Your Smile

I had to go back: there were ghosts to kill. I remembered the main street, the bleak council houses and downbeat people in that dingy town. Almost...
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I Saw My Old Mate Again

I couldn't see him… then the cloud shifted and there he was, glittering in the night sky, hovering over the greenhouse with his tail pointing to The...
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In The Summertime

In the early seventies, I had a semi-Afro hairstyle and a shaggy beard. I thought I looked like the lead singer in Mungo Jerry, but aspired to be Che...
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It's Great

Beautiful baby, precious moment in time. "Be careful holding her with your big hands! She's lucky to have her Mum's nose and eyes." It's great being...
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She Explained

She was distracted and he ran on the pitch in an instinctive, uninhibited, exhilarating chase along the right wing. He out-stripped the startled...
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The Journey Back

I had to go back: there were ghosts to kill. Only Johnny and I made the trip. Strange really: the oldest and youngest. Didn’t seem to mean anything...
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About It All Again

I was thinking back to December 1973... a village called Oberjoch (over the hill) in the Bavarian Alps. Six foot of snow! I was learning to ski with...

My Feet and I

"Well, what a beautiful baby boy!" They exclaimed on the day of my birth. "A bouncing, bonnie little man." So I yelled for all I was worth. They...
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Perhaps

Perhaps when a youth, if I’d settled in France, with a mademoiselle an occasion to dance. On a hot August night, je t’aime, je t’adore and ooh la lah...