Autobiography

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Exams, Work and Firefighting ( Part 4)

I pass my exams and return to North London.But the bombings continue.
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Miracle of the Birds

The beginning of a lifetime of disbelief.

Leaving London

They are burning good books for warmth. Eating cats and dogs for tea. Chewing, laughing, and screaming. I can see them in my street.
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142 Manor Street

Granddad and I walked perfectly in step on the way home. A still, conspiratorial silence, cut with the crunch of sherbet saucers and the pat pat pat of our boots.

Many Days

eyes squinting through branches adorned with pale colours

You're maybe wrong

You're maybe right “Friday night I crashed your party, Saturday I said I'm sorry Sunday came and thrashed it out again
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Days Like These...

Peeling potatoes at the kitchen sink I watch him walk back down the path –
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Kissing Cousins

I wonder if she remembers ... what kind of a question is that! She's in her nineties.

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Time to tre things up, and move away... if only
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HMS Pinafore

A look back at a very special grandfather.