Autobiography
Barcelona Attacks 17/8/17
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Barcelona Attacks 17/8/17 What would it be like if they came here? Islamic State, Al Qaeda, the Taliban, Al Shabbab, or Boko Haram? Decapitations in...
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Have We Written Too Much?
Have We Written Too Much? We wrote stories to sell as paperbacks, hardbacks and short stories. Then the movies, crime dramas, science fiction,...
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Brain Aneurysm
Brain Aneurysm It came like a comet after a background of music an exhibition of joy crowds competing for rides and the sky filled with sound. I saw...
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A Time for Living
A Time for Living Hiking this path I came upon space where even quiet is subdued near a place named Tobermory top of the Bruce Trail and I finally...
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Does Santa have a budget?
*approx 7 and a half years old* — “Why can’t I ask him for a horse … a bike … (or was it a car?) …” (I didn’t want a horse or bike … [and certainly not a car!] …
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You Must Be Choking!
Teaching young students in their homes has its funny side. I often see life behind the scenes which can be quite enlightening. A memorable incident...
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Christmas Past And Present
Picture by Pixabay free Candles radiated warmth in my heart, fairy lights twinkled at start of twilight, reminding me of Christmas's gone before...
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That Old Rooster
I hated that old rooster, because he always chased me when I gathered eggs. But in this tale from my youth, that old rooster picked the wrong time and the wrong place for a winner-takes-all battle for “King of the Barnyard.”
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Twigs and Toads
Memories of a 6 year old Psychiatric Outpatient
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It Wasn’t Supposed To Happen Like This
But it did, and I'll stand by and love you no matter what.
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Winter Wonderland (2) Sunshine
Blue sky and sunshine, soft snow glitters; warm light, air cold. Walking into town, hard-packed pavement centres – safer foothold on the snowy edges...
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Winter Wonderland
Trudging through the snow – like royal icing fresh – sinking softly at each step … will they have to stay the night? will replacements reach? …
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a place I never knew
Silence swills in early morning lamplight, catching fog in rays as gulls patrol the cobbled streets; an oversight in fading darkness. Streets filling...
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Sea and shore
Alone on shore, waves are no crashing bore Their height and force excite me, if I enter may even smite me Far out, I wonder what lies beneath and...
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Compassion Fatigue
Hey you. Yeah you. I know your grandad died last night but conjugate this verb. Get into groups now. Group one: Data says you're the smart kids...
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Passing Teignmouth
Passing Teignmouth, Remembering a love. Passing Teignmouth, As I travel home. More than two and a half hours away still, But. ‘Nearly there’, I think...
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Excuse me - I'm Carrying Out a Survey
6 working years talking to strangers
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Schizophrenia (Heavy Metal type song)
1. The evil chess computer of your brain has gone haywire and it wants you dead and it will do all to drive you insane and theres no running from...
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How To Keep Life Real
We construct lives of fantasy around us. I write a long story about a better life, a place I would like to live in, where people are really free and...
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Futures falter
Is this the messiness of actual living? News came; we all acted, said, ‘understood’. Understanding. Finding out, knowing. Knowing nothing. Lines...
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Love & Chess
Chess is the ultimate board game but one could easily overdo it. Especially youngsters because the ambition always is to be the best, to be world...
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Echo
remember Amanda that day Helen’s Bay when we ran from the House and the work and the stress and the slowrattle train all the stops oldseat carriage...
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Above New Radnor
… Radnor Forest humps and dingles – empty land, ideal for fighting training … for the rambler views afar – Pen-y-fan, Beacons’ double peak, clear and stark on the horizon … and south-east – spread below, like a raised relief map …
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On The Road Again
Photo is my own. Does anyone remember the journey down to Cornwall from Bristol on an August bank holiday from about 1965? Because I do. This is just...
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Christ mas Is Cancelled.
Christ mas is Cancelled. Last Christ mas like the Christmases before was expensive. I usually buy my gifts when I got paid in December, the two that...
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SMELL THE ROSE
Closest to me genetically Just minus 4 mathematically, Separated only by time and miles,; Both small in height, but big on smiles; So different: yet...
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Closing the accounts of the late Deborah Hambrook
Closing the accounts of the late Deborah Hambrook That was the title of the letter that came. I was expecting it because the money was transferred,...
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Crafting With Ed
I had a dream the other night that when I woke did not slip away as they so often do. This particular dream, not the result of a late night coffee or...
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London 2017
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London 2017 Funny high rise buildings, mushrooming up in certain parts of London. The razor sharp Shard is being obscured by competition, racing to...
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Nordy Bank Fort 5/10/17
“Blow-your-hat-off” wind blustery, bustling, dying bracken rustling, boots crunching, sheep staring, silently munching – up to the fort, flat peak ‘...
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Puked On and P***ed Off
I’ve travelled on a train with a companion rather ‘worse for wear’ myself. He was bigger than me and thus hard to handle and so I felt some sympathy...
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Back Then
Photo is my own. As kids we measured each moment in the yawning of nightfall, when nocturnal sleep would carry me peacefully into dreaming of...
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Press Ax3, Press C …
My mother wasn’t practical … Mum fought into a cereal box … her watch displayed a time one hour wrong …
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Remembering
Photo is my own Dry and still is the day as I slowly slip away, coaxing leaves that crunch beneath my boots, damp air convinces me it's early morning...
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Wrong Time For A Walk In The Forest
Picture from pixbay free images. Dear diary...Sunday 24 th September 2017. Awoke to a fine sunny day which added to my excitement of a trip out to...
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Last seen 43 years back
The longish garden seems so small … recall the child’s eyes' view of long before. …
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Memory Lane
Walking down that street we grew up on The memories are fading but they aren't all gone There are people that are waiting for me to write this song I...
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.11 depression and desire
I'm depressed, in a rut, bored or whatever. I'm depressed. Outside of the dull repetition of life I'm stuck with my imagination- my perverted mind...
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The Night Before Christmas
THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS: The tree landed on top of Adaline, softly crushing her and caused her to yelp. She shoved the branches off her chest and...
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Another night .... a much less positive sequel
Written following Another night … posted 21 st Sept 2017 Eighteen hours on I find myself if not regretting, at least reflecting on, my musings of...
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Impediments to reaching the treasure
Thorny tentacles entrap feet or legs to tangle, trip … little juicy treasure perch just beyond precarious reach.
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Another night...
Another night, another hotel room. Freelance working results in days and in nights away from home. It’s fine, well mostly it's fine. I enjoy the...
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Working for my Dad.
Working for Dad Dad’s van driver delivered meat for those customers in and around the area who couldn’t call into the shop because of age, physical...
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Modern Madness
My world is changing, The roads where I lived and walked as a child are now marked with yellow lines, double and single. I don’t dare park on the...
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Memories of this summer
A bush full of gooseberries … Family come to visit … sorting, cleaning toys galore … Lovely country strolling despite his weary pain –
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I think I had this specific perception of myself. I let the movies, the love songs, my own hopeless writing get the better of me when it came to...
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CALL ME DAVY
I followed a group when a South London teen Neither adult nor child - something in between; And for all of you youngsters not born way back when -...
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Isle Of Wight : Day 4
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Day 4 on the island we go to a theme park called Blackgang Chine. Smooth skinned yummy mummies and pleasantly shaped grandmas, Frightening dinosaurs...
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Isle Of Wight : Alum Bay : Day1
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On the first day fully on the Isle Of Wight we go to Alum Bay and the Needles, which are not far from where we are staying in a cottage. We do not...
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Now I'm Bionic Second Part
Saturday 19 th August 2017. Dear Diary... Just as I thought everything would be fine now I was home and in my own environment, another nightmare came...
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Now I'm Bionic
Dear diary... Monday 14 th August 2017. So, it's 7.30am, here I am at the hospital once more ready as I'll ever be for what's coming. Behold the...
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Being Other
Expectation (on multiple levels), preparation, anticipation, expectation (joyful this time) once more. Loss, pain (lots of pain, the physical far...
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Good Bye
Continuing my theme of people dying, this has been a busy week. I had two funerals to play the organ for and each had its own challenges. One of the...
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He made his mark
First day at school, in a dazzled daze, instructions unheeded he disobeys, wandering around after lunch in a dream, drifting indoors, unnoticed,...
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Outcomes of my Dad's recent Funeral in London
I am so glad that I live In Devon. Every other member of my family and pretty much everyone who is close to them lives in London. Mainly North London...
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Brenda
Brenda has been my bridge partner for the last 13 years or so. We are about the same age, and level of ability, but our friendship has been very...
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The Piano
(investment returns 25 years after his death)
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Higher Authorities
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Higher Authorities We want our children to be free! Free to choose what they want to be Free to be able to develop their own career Free to take off...
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Relative Poverty | Reflecting on Childhood Experiences
I am, I accept, very privileged. I live in a well furnished and accessorised home that I can afford to keep warm in winter. I earn more than enough...
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