1.1 Bank Card. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001f1td/the-secret-genius-of-modern-life-series-1-1-bank-card My dad never owned a bank card. I’m taking it for granted if he didn’t, my mum didn’t either. He got paid in cash, a brown envelope (not so) full of notes and coins. A slip of paper inside with the amount paid and tax deducted. The bank card seen off hard cash. With many banks closing, used mainly by elderly customers, elegies to...

Poem of the Week goes to 'Legacy' by Ciadish. This beautiful meditation on loss has both warmth and hope and has struck a chord with a number of readers, including me. I'm sure it will continue to resonate with many more: Legacy | ABCtales Story of the Week is the start of another of Mac Ashton's hugely enjoyable romps, 'One Night At Kedasi'. We're also promised a return visit by some of the characters from 'The First Ambassador To Crustacea',...

Memoies from 56 years back mother driving feeding ponies lumps of sugar from my right hand car cartel mattels barbie cindy tressy turn the lock hair comes up and down sue had plaits and siobhain and malchi macsweeney are cousins of the vegan Scottish haggis mkar First poet of scotland fergusson edwin morgan TELLY j ohn logiee Baird Helnsburgh museum I am not there I am nowhere near I am in a house there is a piano and Mrs Anne Faires my mothers...

I’m not a big fan of Billy Connolly, but I do know how to spell the Big Yin’s name. The funny thing is never that funny. I think I’ve already told you the tale of a pal of mine, a taxi driver, she could be quite opinionated. She was driving him to Drymen and he was talking some pish about Scotland and she left him at the side of the road. He’d the last laugh by becoming a national icon like the Queen Mother but with a beard and Parkinsonism. She...

Entrance the old days Birth Canal trance in the old time steps of a small place dancing 'I see an old wifie share certs in one hand a gun in the other' (adrian mitchell poet) Molly Maggison didn't rate london much Bunch of nincompoops who do they think they are I'm worth ten of them an so is my family dead and alive A local bird feathering her nest Foreign birdies too 'bibbly babbly tralaa lala say prayers musical chairs make loads of Dosh' yes...

LONDOn trance Three girls Jane mary and up from the country pretty Molly 'Ooh London is lovely shall we bide an look' Hark at her. Oooh London is lovely But it is Molly is a stubborn Devon Jenny ass 'They won't make game of me' Ook hark at her. Don't be silly we're down the Dilly' 'Will we bide for a ride with Billy the Greek 'Can you ride Devon drackboat can you ride Devon drack booat' Molly kicks back 'you're bad girls, you are' Ooh will you...

tranc e We are well out of London Now Miaow!! wah wah ah The Mighty Spinney spinnin spins of T RANCE SPINX Hey kitty catkins hey kittekitte kitkit Here is the RED TABBY I saw one not long ago a red tabby on a windowsill Here in Exmouth New Street (not the peace shop on the Exe bridge Exeter CND Shop 31a New Bridge Street Exeter everyone there is out there wanting and looking for Suzanne Love returning peace activist and friend of cats, birds and...

What do you think about when you hear: The Faithful Couple ? I think of an old couple being physically separated as they entered The Poor House. That was a last century thing, but we’re bringing it back step by step. Faithful Couple isn’t to me a guy thing. That old joke that your mates are whoever your wife’s pal’s husbands or partners is too near the bone. A.D. Miller twists this idea as he takes the reader through the lives of a faithful...

entrance in London Kingsbury maternity hospital me for real London trance Shaftesbury avenue nicholas breakspear Piccadilly circus Oxford circus for the students and the wannabee Goodge street for the lzer eye surgery Morrfields for more eye surgery after the fighting Gowere street Dillons univeristy bookshop Brixton Electric avenue the Eccentric Electric cinema The stars the bars are spitting the trams and cars Trams?? It's trance 121 Books...

Trance entrance main stage Prosession Arch theatre in the round globe trance music rave music LET me put you in the Picture I missed all the rave scene cos I was a mum in the centre of Embro' And licenses rave were out at Livingston at Rezzurrection Grounds out at Livvy ( Lingston New Town) Outskirta Trance Tv now I never got the e'ed up hand waving thingmy my miss take Now with instruction on screed Lissen move to beats take time out I am not a...