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JOHN MCLACHLAN (Kojak) 1962-2011

Tony Quinn opened the living-room window and shouted me into Kojak’s house on Lilac Avenue. It had one of those boxy silver wheelchair ramps taking...

Maria's Diary chapters 15 and 16

Chapter 15 Happy the righteous! come what may, Though Heaven dissolve and earth decay; Happy the righteous man! for he Belongs to immortality. August...

Golden Memories: Another Weird Guy

I may have described this chap before and, if so, please feel free to fast forward. One of many local eccentrics in the 1970's, he was curiously torn...
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Pertwee

In just two days from now, Jon Pertwee will have been dead for twenty-five years. For those who may not know, Pertwee was a British actor. He starred...
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Maria's Diary 14

Chapter 14 New House So through the ocean tide of years, The memory of the just appears; So through the tempest and the gloom, The good man’s virtues...

Maria's Diary 13

Chapter 13 Election time As in the heavens, the urns divine, Of golden light, for ever shine; Though clouds may darken, storms may rage, They still...
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Capturing Garden Memories

Mum's secret dreamy flowers settle gently on my mind, her cooled murmur of breath hidden, yet garnished with droplets from spring showers that cling...

Maria's Diary -1

(This chapter is from before the time when William Holt came to London and during it, so some of the details in the first chapters are not accurate...