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Eleven Thousand Silent Playmates
When an old song revives a memory that uncovers an astonishing secret. You might call this a sequel, or even a prequel, to Making Do with Dusty Springfield.
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Making Do with Dusty Springfield
Remembering Patricia, a young Middlesbrough girl with great dreams. I hope her best ones came true.
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All the Chai in China
The last half of the last twelfth of 2024, described at a rate of one hundred words per day.
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Mad Dogs and Donkeys
The first half of the last twelfth of 2024, described at a rate of one hundred words per day.
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The Day of the Drone - Luton to the Rescue
Christmas Chaos Part Two - The tale of a complicated and frustrating journey across Europe from east to west to enjoy the festive period with my family. Roy Wood and all the members of his band, Wizzard, said it’s a good job it’s not Christmas every day.
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Interesting!
Posted on Fri, 28 Nov 2025
Hello Jenny.
The extension to the trip that I mentioned would have included not only flying over the Nazca Lines but have a close up look at them at ground level. I vaguely remember the travel company (Exodus Travels) mentioning that we'd...
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Aliens
Posted on Fri, 28 Nov 2025
At the time of booking I was offered the chance to extend the trip to take in an archaeological site in southern Peru called the Nazca Lines. These are vast artistic depressions in the deseart floor dating back more than two thousand years and...
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What's next?
Posted on Fri, 28 Nov 2025
I never imagined that a story about a golf course and a leaf blower could be gripping. Nice one Jane! I'm looking forward to the next bit.
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Ms Crawford
Posted on Sun, 23 Nov 2025
One Day I'll Fly Away... the daily thoughts of an eight-year-old Smoggie.
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Come back. Baby come back.
Posted on Tue, 25 Nov 2025
Well I hope Jesus has a second crack at the job soon and has a bit of success. Nobody else seems to have managed so they may as well give him a whirl.
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Dreaming
Posted on Sun, 23 Nov 2025
Street dreams are made of this. Who am I to disagree?
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The answer, my friend...
Posted on Tue, 25 Nov 2025
But what about Bob Dylan? You couldn't have found a cooler bloke in the day but the words of many of his songs oozed pessimism. So you might find life easier if you just tried to be like him.
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Dust
Posted on Sun, 23 Nov 2025
Thanks very much for that Di. I wasn’t sure whether it worked as a poem or not and dithered for a while over posting it. It didn’t take me very long to write so that made me think it probably wasn’t up to much. It didn’t take long to write...
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Bunch of Grapes
Posted on Fri, 21 Nov 2025
My friends and I used to go to a lot of gigs at Colston Hall and the Arena in Bristol and for both venues the Bunch of Grapes in Denmark Street was the perfect place to meet. It was too for Hippodrome punters and actors, so that might be the pub...
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Ballet hell
Posted on Fri, 21 Nov 2025
A story of a great memory for you there Jenny, and nicely told.
My only memory of the Bristol Hippodrome brings back the smell of fear. About twenty-five years ago I went with some people from work to see a performance of Swan Lake. Our...
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