Autobiography

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Poem of the week

Blue

The recent loss of my firstborn has brought back the pain of another loss...
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Gifts Of My Childhood

In deep recesses of my mind running down nostalgic pavements scrawled with forgotten squares and numbers hopscotch played until we dropped, with...
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Studland, missing fingers, a rabid dog called Bob and a privy

When we first arrived from Canada in the early 1960’s my parents would take us, that is my two elder brothers and me to a farm on the road from...
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A Tour of My Neighbourhood

Written some years ago when I lived in inner-city Edinburgh.
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Tormore Whisky, The Stag and Hounds and the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

The Stag and Hounds at Braywick between Maidenhead and Windsor is where I had my first taste of English bitter that I paid for legally myself as I...
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Leggings - A trail of children.

That's another story for Halloween... see suggested child reader instead!

Late Blackberrying

Late for blackberries, missed it this year - let’s go up Wort Hill – ‘look-out point’ over Shropshire dips and ups, and on to Edgton – enjoy the air...

Lean Times Part Two.

A letter arrived from the benefits people for Paul it wasn’t good news six weeks ago, so I expected the same information again, Paul didn’t like to...