Autobiography

Happy Christmas

Happy Christmas and Happy New Year to you all. Nothing new to report on my cancer journey - but I thought you might like to read this poem that...
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Tumbling river and tangled footpath

Near Gladestry (11/12/23) The sun was shining, we scrambled down the squelchy leaf-mould, mulch-carpet sloping floor of the riverside wood. (There...
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Exquisite Leaf-mulch art

A dropped twig, beautifully clothed … moss-feathers lightening up another patch!
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Foulweather Friends

It is six minutes to twelve when I arrive at the psychiatric outpatient clinic. It is almost mid-December. The florist at the end of my street is...
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Jack Brown

My great grandfather Frank Brown was miraculously of a handful survivors in the battle of Delville Wood, where the South African infantry was wiped...
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Up to the Hoar Frost

The sun is shining, hardly a cloud in the big blue sky. Drive up the steep hill from Church Stretton, (a bit icy, careful – precipice to the right … white ‘flowers’ on the dead ferns …
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Friendly Fire

FRIENDLY FIRE I went for my pre-chemo clinical visit yesterday. I have had a fairly uneventful fortnight, and nothing new to report, except the...
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Crazy! Crazy Days and Nights

Dear diary...it was Friday 3 rd December 1976, when I entered a twenty four hour marathon dance in aid of a charity named START... though I can't...
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The Targovishte Quandary - Part 3 of 3

My dark and disturbing encounter in Eastern Europe – it’s the final countdown!
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Spider

Spider Jennifer Pickup 27.11.2023 The lady in front of me at the dressage convention has a spider in her hair. I lean forwards to study the tiny,...