Autobiography
Beginning
A young married couple struggle to get by on one wage. They are renting a one roomed wooden dwelling called The Retreat. A baby lies in the corner,...
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Leggings - the makings of a Royal...

True christian forgiveness, and the makings of a Royal...
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False happy
Feeling fine most of the time well enough to format a rhyme at least, but would this feeling cease if I stopped taking pills, I'm ill you see, felt...
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Never Let the Saucepan Boil Dry Chapter Eight: Song of a Quenguin

I was, and remain, very grateful for many things in my life in Culloden: for my landlord, David, and for my parents, who live on the other side of...
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Never Let the Saucepan Boil Dry Chapter 7: Speak Well, Mean Well, Do Well

The job I had hoped for did not materialise. 2004 began slowly as my academic victories that meant so much did not immediately lead to any kind of...
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Anxiety of School Years

Dear Diary...the ability to fit in to what teachers and peers of society expected of me was very hard to achieve when I was young, but there was one...
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Never Let the Saucepan Boil Dry Chapter 6: I Shall Arise, Part 2

Back in Aberdeen, May was supposed to bring an end to the taught Postgraduate Diploma phase of the course, but I needed more time, having become...
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Never Let the Saucepan Boil Dry Chapter 6: I Shall Arise, Part 1

I am sorry now that I did not attend Dad’s induction in Cromarty. I found it difficult to accept the pace of change, and what had happened in the...
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One foot in front of the other...

They put one foot out in front of the other...
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Exactly What is Parkinson's, Anyway?

To mark the start of Parkinson's Awareness Week
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