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The Smell of Other Worlds
Every two months or so, I go to the médiathèque for a life drawing session, and the atmosphere is always strangely reverent, as if we’re about to...
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Watching You Chapters Thirty-One and Thirty-Two
Chapter Thirty-One The sound of shouting had died away; his pursuers were somewhere below, searching the ramp. But still Withers remained in the...
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Drama Of Pheromones
Dear diary... I first realized I loved the bodies natural odour when I went to see the great musical Hair at the Hippodrome Bristol in 1970. I knew...
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Remembering John F. Kennedy
The Fall of an American Camelot It was a time of chivalry, of knights and ladies, performing like actors in an ethereal Brigadoon, evoking visions of...
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How does it do it?
What a wonderful thing is the human nose! detecting as up through its tubes the air goes, the scent of the lavender when the breeze blows, and so...
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Dolly Blue Monday
She'd never had it so good.
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the pie
The pie that wouldn’t crack, I bit it, I hit it, and I even kicked it. That pie just wouldn’t crack, It almost broke my back. I knifed it, forked it...
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The Three Ages of Man
Lots of noise, drink and smoke; the ideal environs of a lecher. And then the marathon begins, every little game, just another day as carrier and...
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Why We Bother
Two and a half thousand years ago the Greek philosopher Socrates was extremely worried that democracy would give rise to demagoguery. Socrates...
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Satin. Part Two.
My daughter Meghan set me up recently on a fantastic, on-line site, where I can sell my things and buy beautiful things at a bargain price. This has...
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Satin. Part One.
Meghan my daughter did her research and told me, “For your curly hair satin pillows is good for your hair,” So I bought lovely satin pillows from...
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What A Load of Nonsense!
At breakfast time my seeded toast smelled just like watercress while the coffee reeked of jellybeans recovered from Loch Ness My pillow smelled like...
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Busking In Coffs Harbour
Busking In Coffs Harbour By Paul McCann Although my experience as a poet and songwriter has been a lonely journey I have been happy to experience the...
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Escape From Chelmsford
Escape From Chelmsford by Paul McCann Medicated and sedated to an unconscious state , where you understood nothing to which you couldn’t relate ...
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Oestara
Belton House. He was queueing with his mam on the springy grass verge where the stone steps rise up to the hall. The sort of kid that never stays...
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wild cats and borstal
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Music Is The Breath Of The Soul
Music Is The Breath Of The Soul By Paul McCann Life is a song , love is the call , lets all try and sing along . It’s seen and heard in the place...
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Above Clunbury
The day before the storm (13/11/25) A fine day – can we go out? Lunch up in Shropshire and then a quick look at the map, and drive west to the...
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the Angel Anarchica or 'The Soul of the City'
The Soul of the City is a much sought after but mercurial, elusive being; No one knows where or if the cosmopolitan phantom will make an appearance...
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Smells a Funny Colour
Smell’s a Funny Colour Red shouts loud Rougely proud Romantic sniffed Valentine gift Orange peeled It’s core revealed Citrus stinging Vit C giving...
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