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trance do you remember when the eyemake up compacts Maybelline the factory at the Industrial Estate Wembley Park Bottom line money 50 per hour or 55p for 'going on the machines' Santos the forelady make very rude moves with her hose when she washed the floor I was surprized that Indiands could be as rude as us Old Margaret (Wilkinson the Family Rality TV do you remember when and that music ha ha ha the Family Gary Karen Tom Timmy etc yaya...

Catherine Simpson is around the same age as me. We’ve both received a little largesse from Scottish Book Trust. Her story is in the title. Most readers understand intuitively with the use of the past tense that her wee sister, Tricia, has passed over. In plainer terms, she’s dead. She died in December 2013, aged 46. My brother died around 1995. My partner’s brother died around the same time. They were both in their mid-thirties. Mother and...

Jose Saramago won The Nobel Prize for Literature, but his writing wasn’t widely published or read until the Portuguese writer was in his sixties. That gives some of us hope. His translator died before finishing revisions. The publisher acknowledged the help of Margaret Jill Costa. That’s the kind of blurb you can pick up from any book trailer. Those are his credentials. I didn’t like the writing (maybe it was the translation). It was the story...

morning early morning the bus yes here is the bus there are serveral of us on this cheerful chirpy morning bus cheers driver cheers bus builders Here's to US the co-op is almost open her's the cashier and the shop assistant they go in first because they are working I am a loyal customer in I go and I have a lovely hot drink and a croissant Down the beach I go One lady and a dog ahead of me DAWN good place and on my way back to an old factory...

I’ve been following Danny Robins’ The Witch Farm on BBC Sounds. But I jumped ahead by reading Mark Chadbourn’s Testimony on which much of the Podcast is based. A small publisher, I’m guessing sales were dead. Now it’s jumped to Number 2 in Amazon’s Supernatural category. Resurrection of a different kind. Most funerals I go to now are humanist. No overt religious input. No hymns. But sometimes a floating jokey reference to him or her being...

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001f89c/imagine-2022-douglas-stuart-love-hope-and-grit Shuggie Bain , the 2020 Booker prize winner, was Douglas Stuart’s debut novel. It has sold around 1.5 million copies worldwide. His follow-up novel, Young Mungo , is also set in the Glasgow of Stuart’s birth and follows a gay son trying to hang on to the coattails of a mum that is lost to drink, but sometimes finds her way home. https://www.bbc.co.uk/...