Autobiography
A hundred moments in autism - Alone
Yes! I am all alone. I enter the office to find nobody else has arrived. I almost skip with joy. PTSD victims often describe the terror when they...
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A hundred moments in autism - Your mother's got a penis
Tory party conference, Blackpool 2004. I was a public affairs officer for a disability charity for ten years, and my role involved attending three...
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A hundred moments in autism - The Whale Café lunch queue
I am standing in the lunch queue at the Whale Café (just the name of the café, I am not a whale). I realise I am standing slightly oddly, with my...
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Fact
In the old days, it was work or be sacked. Never heard of fracked or hacked. Left beliefs behind in search of fact. Made do, for what we lacked...
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Alfred N.Muggins Becomes An Honourary Frenchman After Watching The Opening Ceremony Of The Olympics!
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28/7/24 He felt like an honourary Frenchman, having eaten two Croissants for breakfast with jam and marmalade respectively, and a banana. Meanwhile...
Another Art (Villanelle-esque!)
Another Art (Villanelle-esque!) Jennifer Pickup, 31.07.2024 (Inspired by ‘One Art’ by Elizabeth Bishop) The art of waiting is hard to master –...
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Memento Mori
I've broken many a cup in my life, but I still have this one......for now.
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Watching
Watching Jennifer Pickup, 29.07.2024 I know that you’re here with me, Even though I can’t see you, You are keeping a close eye, Watching everything I...
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Candi Staton, the Sea and Me
Memories of my last night before becoming a salty sea dog. It all happened at the Devon public house in the fashionable Cross Gates district of Leeds, round about the end of August 1976.
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Here I Am. By MarciaMarcia
Here I am...arrived, they say at an age some call old. Yet I feel young like a child most times, touched by what I see and feel of my life, its...
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