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A vivid childhood memory. My father was a coal miner who'd had a hard life, and along the way he missed out on expressing emotions.

I've been out of circulation for long now well more than a decade, I've been isolated from society and am in safe keeping you might say, doing well I...

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16/4/21 (21/10/21) Henry confided in his friend Alfred that he was becoming weary of his position as King. Everyone expected him to know the answer...

We’ll never know why Dad went out to the vegetable garden. Maybe to see how the cabbages were doing, or to plan the next crop. Maybe just to think. He used to say that being out among living things just quietly growing was a good exercise in contemplation.

I sigh He sighs. I sighed, he sighed, it was almost in unison. I sleep, you sleep. He can be happy; I can be happy too. I can feel pain, so can he. I...

It was 10 years ago this month (February 2013) when my eardrum burst. I was 54 years old. I'd had a cold and my ear began to ache on the way to work...

I've read Waiting for Godot about half-a-dozen times and seen it twice on stage many years ago. I can never make up my mind if Godot is God or death, or if Estragon and Vladimir are in Hell or Purgatory or in a care home near Clacton-on-Sea. Anyway, this isn't really about Didi and Gogo. [Image from PXhere.com]

In the 90s I used to go clubbing ....a lot. So much so some dates times events all blur into one and it's really difficult to remember who what where...