Biography

No Going Back

No Going Back Life itself is a one way ticket often comprising of changes that are forever. True, in a physical sense we can retrace our steps, but...
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See the Sea

The smell of the briny sea brings it all flooding back, the memory of the early seventies. My family weren't rich and couldn't afford to holiday...
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Cherry

That's Life ( Pt 1 ) Leaving: This is for Di

Dear Diary...life can never prepare you for the black clouds that can gather, leaving you feeling sad and alone, where no one understand the...
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Cherry

Borderline

I live on fault lines. Every step is an earthquake, every breath a landslide. I do not walk through the world I tremble through it. Borderline. That’...
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Scary Event

Dear diary, it was the evening of Wednesday 24th September 2025. I was stood in the bathroom cleaning my teeth, when all of a sudden there was an...
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Autumn mood

Autumn makes you reflective You look back on things Common place things In a new light It’s raining I have a cold My thoughts turn to John Mum and...
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Letter Going Beyond The Grave

Dear dad...it's coming up to that time of year when thinking of dear departed loved ones is important, well for me it is anyway. The years have flown...
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Gold cherry

Sandwiches, Wittgenstein and a Log

In the summer of 1991, James and I decided to make the last Grand Tour. He called it that, of course — I was just along for the ride. James had been...
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Cherry

The Gesture

This story contains reference to suicide and mental illness. It doesn’t take a tragedy. Not always. Sometimes it’s a drip from a ceiling, a broken...
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Party Fashions

My father had a gift for humour—sharp, innuendo-laced, and often just a little too pleased with itself. He came from a decent family, trained as a...
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