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Waiting For The Flash
I wasn't sure if a photo could express Ekphrastic poetry, but decided to have a go and see if it worked. Childhood is such a mystery to me,...
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The Cricklewood Times, Sunday 25th June 2017
NB: for Jack, no, Tarquin doesn't exist and I don't have these kind of connections. Image is author's own.
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Death and Stuff
One day last week I lifted the garage door, took a look, and quickly retreated. A couple of months ago the last of my furniture and boxed up goods...
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The Lake
The Lake It was a magical phrase to those of us in our late teens, during the 1960’s. Several gathering spots, situated along the Lake Erie shore...
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Is that it?
Chapter 1. When I was ten years old, I remember quite an unusual moment that changed me radically. I was hanging out in the evening with my...
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Forever A Waylander
There is no longer the chance Yet there was a time that I did dream I would lay awake and think Of all the clever things I would say When we had our...
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George Evans
George Evans who's he? I here you ask, my uncle that's who he was. Youngsters of today would have no idea about comedy of the fifties, sixties and...
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Surround Them With Love
Dear diary...I light a candle. My heart dropped when I heard the news, a block of flats gone up in hellish flames; a community – hub of family life...
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The House That Laurie Built (from Ribbentrop's Chair)
THE HOUSE LAURIE BUILT “In my family we’ve always found the world’s air hard to breathe; we arrived hoping for somewhere better” (Salman Rushdie, The...
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In Vanishing Valley
Thirty years ago, on a startling, clear August afternoon, I was smack dab in the middle of everywhere, the Grizzly Mountains of Montana. To be more...
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