PROSE
Misc prose
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A SHORT STORY (VERY VERY LATE I.P.)
A very very delayed IP on being short.
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BABY BOOMERS - PART 1 - THE WORKFACE
All we want is what we work for!
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BABY BOOMERS - PART 2 - THE HOME FRONT
It's so unfair!
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BABY BOOMERS - PART 3 - WORK-LIFE BALANCE
Work-Life Treadmill
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CAN'T SLEEP - WON'T SLEEP
A Mother's personal and entirely selfish grief on Mothering Sunday.
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D.A.B. is B.A.D.
Mission accomplished!
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DEAR BEA - THE LETTER I WISH I'D WRITTEN
Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Names have been changed to protect the innocent.
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EVENING CLASSES
Revenge is sweet.
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THE PRAWN SANDWICH
She lounged, shapely legs elegantly akimbo, on the ivory velvet chaise longue, with a glass of champagne in one hand and an exquisitely delicious chocolate in the other, grasped delicately between thu
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THE TIME OF OUR LIVES
It was a most remarkable time in our lives. Surreal even.
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ENVY? (I.P.)
Cant sleep again. Written at 1 in the morning. Thank goodness for the IP.
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KEEPING THE FAITH WITH DAD
Can't sleep again - written at 2 a.m.
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HELLO OLD BEAN
'Hello old bean! Fancy meeting you here!'
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THE JOY OF WORDS
The emotional business of writing.
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LIFE'S LOTTO
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
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WHITHER THOU GOEST 1 - SARAH'S STORY - PART 1
I am sitting here in the sunny garden of my childhood home, surrounded by people I love – my two children Amanda and Joe, their partners and Amanda’s...
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WHITHER THOU GOEST 2 - SARAH'S STORY - PART 2
And so our lives continued like most people’s. I got a good job and moved into my own small flat in London. A year after leaving home, I received a...
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THE BASIL POT
A new take on an Italian folk story inspired by the IP 'Turning Negatives into Positives'. Lisabetta di Cara, Lisa to her friends, is the youngest...
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WHITHER THOU GOEST 3 - RUTH'S STORY - PART 1
How the hell did I get here? Yeah yeah, I know, I am sitting in a car – I mean HOW did I get HERE? What am I doing? This was a crazy idea, travelling...
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DOLLY'S ROOM
Doris had always loved dolls. They were her babies, she said. She had never married, although she had once been engaged to a pilot, who had been...
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POSTCARDS FROM THE PAST - Beginning the Grand Tour
We had enjoyed our usual cake and cappuccino (maximum chocolate sprinkles) in Costa’s, and were just having a mooch around the little shops in Hayes...
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TRUST (Last week's IP)
IN MEMORY OF BRENDA KIRBY M.B.E. My friend Brenda Kirby M.B.E. died this week, on 28.9.2014. OK, she was not in the first flush of youth, though she...
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BERMONDSEY GIRLS - Eliza Minnie Cherry - Part 1
My name is Eliza Cherry. I was born Eliza Minnie Mutton on 18th September 1889 at 54 Abinger Road, Deptford, near the foundry and the docks. ‘Liely’...
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BERMONDSEY GIRLS - Eliza Minnie Cherry - Part 2
I’m getting out of order again now. I gave birth to my first child Eliza Minnie in 1911, and Violet May followed in 1913. Our first son Ernest was...
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BERMONDSEY GIRLS - Eliza Minnie Cherry - Part 3
That’s better, amazing what a cup of tea can do for an old body. Where was I? Oh yes, between the wars. The Daniels family had moved in with us when...
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COMMITMENT
Woke up this morning feeling a bit strange. Thought I was just having a hot flush. Then as the sun shone through the bedroom window, it dawned on me...
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SECRETS Part 1
That day started like any other. I was woken up by the trouble and strife stomping about none too quietly round my bedroom like she does most days –...
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SECRETS Part 2
Back in 1970 a few months after I married ‘er indoors, I left the Stock Exchange to drive a London bus, a job I enjoyed very much, and worked with...
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SISTERS (IP)
The three sisters were having a virtual meeting somewhere in the Ethernet of their inner minds. From their vantage point they looked over all the...
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A TALE OF SIMPLE COUNTRY FOLK AND A PAIR OF LONDON TOWNIES
On Sunday 17 th July 2016 the other half and me set out for exploration of the Beds/Bucks countryside. We were actually aiming for St Barnabas Church...
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IN DEFENCE OF SIR PHILIP GREEN (DEFENDING THE INDEFENSIBLE?)
I’ve not actually spoken to Sir Philip Green since I last saw him in 1973, when I left my job in Old Street, City of London for the heady heights of...
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ONE OF THOSE DAYS
Rewrite of a blog entry to suit IP
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FIRST AID FOR NHS
Written for previous IP but not posted soon enough due to PC going mad.
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TWO DAYS BEFORE MUM'S FUNERAL
Wednesday 14 November 2018. Two days before mum's funeral. We think we've got it all sewn up, but we keep thinking of things... When are they...
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FAMILY CONNECTIONS
I really wasn’t expecting this. I had set out to start clearing some of the detritus we had managed to gather over the last few years, when we had...
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DEAR JOHN
11.3.2019 Dear John Here I am again, sat here all alone in the bar of the Civil Service Club. Well, I say alone, but there are already a few other...
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1967 - THE SUMMER OF LOVE - THE ROAD TO FREEDOM
‘A’Levels were just a year away, and, as was usual for Haberdashers’ Aske’s Hatcham Girls’School, an old and well-respected Grammar School in New...
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1967 - THE SUMMER OF LOVE - LILLE UNIVERSITY
SETTLING IN Having just about survived the crossing from Dover to Boulogne-sur-mer, a great trial for me, always having hated and feared water and...
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1967 - THE SUMMER OF LOVE - LA BELLE BRETAGNE
EN FAMILLE I sat rather trepidaciously on the train heading for Saint Brieuc, in Brittany, where I was to be met and taken to my next host family in...
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1967 - THE SUMMER OF LOVE - PARIS HERE I COME
CITY OF DREAMS The train ferrying me from Brittany to Paris was quite crowded, much more like the train journeys through my home town of London. I...
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1967 - THE SUMMER OF LOVE - TOURING TOURAINE
THE LOIRE VALLEY Eventually the Cours de vacances drew to an exhausting close, and It was with a certain amount of trepidation that I set off with a...
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A HAUNTING HOLIDAY
Last week, my good friend and I treated ourselves to a 2 night break in the Castleton, a large B&B cum hotel in Swanage, Dorset. The house is...
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RIGHT TO BUY
A piece prompted by a local author's request for comments on the subject
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THE GRANVILLE PARKERS - POST WAR SE LONDON
I was born in 1950, in Lewisham Hospital, London SE13. It had been a workhouse, then a military hospital for the returning wounded of WW1. Mum and...
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THE GRANVILLE PARKERS - CLIFF- MOVE IT!
Recycled and Upcycled from my Blog in honour of Cliff's 80th Birthday 14th October 2020 62 years ago Cliff released his first hit single Move It!, on...
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