Autobiography
The Wanderer Returns
My brain was addled. Bonkers Breakfast TV was usually preceded by an hour or two of serious programming where one able person demonstrates that four...
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Holocaust Day Remembrance
Tunbridge Wells Holocaust Remembrance Day. The day was cold before dawn, and I got up shivering for a cup of tea. I have been sleeping rather better...
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Mudbath! (The Ultimate Day Trip Of All Possible Day Trips!) by Alfred N. Muggins (from his recent holiday in Marmaris, Turkey!) Part 5 : At The Mudbath at Dalyan!
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May 2022 Written 17/5/22 (11/7/22) As always Alfred could not just go straight into the mudbath, as many of the boat passenger tourists were doing...
Out-Out
We were tougher back then in my earlier days of life: One day was blitzy with snow hard to see through icy-up windows- heard the whooshes &...
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memiors past and present
Years ago…. Years ago, when the world was young, I was educated at a London college and at Isabelle’s the dressmaker place, learning the trade of a...
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Christmas Present (or Nearly)
Nostalgia is probably the way a healthy mind rewrites the often difficult past with a positive tilt. The prism of affection allows us to excuse...
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Stories of East Sussex - PART 2
Tales of East Sussex part 2. Surprisingly unlike areas in Kent, magic isn’t often used in East Sussex, it’s commonly found to be evil, and the locals...
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The Novice
This was the first poem that came to me, twenty seven years ago, while I was living in a Benedictine community. It is partly autobiographical (Romeo was an actual rooster), though set in a much earlier time - before Henry VIII did his worst.
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Stories of East Sussex
Long ago, when I was a child, there were two sets of people living in the Crowborough area of East Sussex who were very different to the normal human...
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SuperSneaker
One friday after school I was short a player for a league match the guy dropped me I had to fill my team. The Sneaker joked he knew the moves I put...
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