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WHERE DOES TIME GO?

I’ve been thinking a lot about the passage of time this week or so. Since I last put pen to paper, or rather hand to keyboard, so much has happened in a short space of time; where to start? The Monday after my charity sponsored walk seems good, being the beginning of the end (of term and one big part of my life). Still sore of foot and heavy of head I made my way with my daughter to watch her son’s assembly about saving the planet and the...

Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett (2009) The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone.

A good week for me. I’ve moved up the alphabet from arsehole to author. There was brouhaha over the other side of the Atlantic over plagiarism. You may not have noticed, but I’m attuned to these social markers. Donald Trump’s second or third wife (who is doing the counting and who really cares) in a speech supporting her husband’s suitability to lead not just the Republican party, but the American nation as President, began her speech with...

David Wilson (2016) Left Field

I share the same page as Jeremy Corbyn. We supported this crowdfunded book published by Unbound and I’d guess Corbyn shares many of my interests in equality and social justice. Left Field as the name suggests is about the You and non-You as a house master described the apparent differences between houses at Canford school in Dorset, to a pubescent Wilson, at the fag end of the not-so-swinging fifties. David Wilson or Commie Wilson as he was...

London Competition.

The London Competition! 2 Books to be won. The Gentle Authors London Album and my own not quite so great East End Butcher Boy! Just £2 an entry ( See home page). Anything about London is welcome. Prose or Poetry it makes no difference. I want to know what you think about London, How you feel about London ( Celticman, I already know what you think, but have a go anyway!). I want to hear stories and poems about London. Sights, smells, sounds.....

David Cameron - the legacy!

I was a bit miffed reading The Observer , ‘IN FOCUS’, that no one had asked me to write about David Cameron’s legacy. I can only guess that’s because a blank page wouldn’t appeal to the reader. They would think it was some kind of trick – like global warming on a miserable and wet Scottish Sunday. I listened to Jeremy Corbyn stand up (OK you can’t hear someone standing up on the radio)in the House of Commons (with very few commoners in the House...

Obedience classes

Since language appears to be a key weapon in the battle that clouds the soul of the UK, would it be worth asking the moral majority what they define as the "elite"? We might find there are more elites than anyone thought. The same with "ordinary". Who are these ordinary folk? It seems to me it might be a little too easy to point the finger at a nebulous term and let slip the dogs of war.

Jeff Torrington (1992) Swing Hammer Swing!

Swing Hammer Swing! won the Whitbread Book of the Year. I like whitebread, but scientists with Twitter feeds say it’s not good for ducks or swans. The latter can’t moult and the young are unable to fly. This book does fly, but doesnae go very far. It’s the Gorbals, Scobie Street, when all the houses were falling down and the less-well heeled populist sent on their way. The ne’-er-do-well narrator Tam Clay, 28, wordsmith and would-be-author is...

Story, Poem and Inspiration Point of the Week

A short but intense story for you this week by London Calling: http://www.abctales.com/story/londoncalling79/dogs And the poem by scorio 88 just hits the spot for anyone who's ever worked in an office: http://www.abctales.com/story/scorpio88/rumour I hope you also enjoy this week's Inspiration point: http://www.abctales.com/inspiration-point-ip

BLOGGAGE

I've been thinking about Blogging lately. I have all these thoughts in my head all the time but few seem joined up enough to actually write a piece for my ABC account. So I wondered what I could make of a Blog. I dip in and out of other peoples' Blogs, they all seem so interesting I often wonder why they are just Blog entries and not actual stories. I did a daily Blog a few years back, but that was mainly aimed at the London Transport (sic)...

Carmine Gallo (2014) Talk, the 9 Public Speaking Secrets, Like, of the World’s Top Minds, TED.

Aye, I can hear you thinking. What’s he reading that shite for? Well, as you probably know I’ve been trying to sell my book Lily Poole to the unsuspecting public. For two years I’ve been making promises and telling enough lies to become the next Tory Prime Minister. Well, that wasn’t to be, but I did get a lot of support from a couple of homeless folk that I bribed with a bottle of Eldorado and the promise of enough cheap wine to float off to...

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