Autobiography
The Old Photo

A blast from the past.
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A Very Risky Venture with a Best Friend
A few years ago my wife bought me a taster course at the British Racing School based at Newmarket. I still believe that this was a highly veiled...
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The /fɑːl/

I’d heard of a swimmer, from you I think, who’d attempted to cross the Vaal. As a boy it had scared me; the river had a menace no number of...
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Bach's Pralidium Number 1 Played by the Jacques Loussier Trio
Since about November 2017 I have been going through varying degrees of stress and anxiety induced by work for the very first time in my life. It is...
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International Purple Day - Epilepsy Awareness

Tomorrow is Purple Day! My lovely daughter has learned to live with her epilepsy, but we have also learned that there is a lot to be done in terms of research and awareness. This is written with her permission. Purple Day logo used with permission of Purple Day UK.
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Visiting the Dingle after early March snow

… we sink to our ankles, splash, wade, frequent suck-glugs as haul-pluck at mud-clasped boot …
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Secret Party Crashers
Recollect my friend, meeting up on a Saturday night outside Bristol Hippodrome. It was 1972 I'd just turned eighteen, me in my brown suede, knee high...
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Fix Me
Fix Me (09/03/2018) I have come as a sceptic, A long-term non-believer, I have always dismissed this, An unwilling receiver; I have come under duress...
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Weather For Brass Monkeys

Picture by pixabay free images 1 st March 2018 Temperature fit for snowmen, as bitter rawness envelopes my every muscle clenching tight, anticipating...
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