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Benches & Hedges
If you turn off your mind, relax and float downstream you might just find there’s a lot more than botany to discover in a garden, especially in Leeds.
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Crado Come Home
Me and the world around me during the second half of July 2024, in 100 words per day.
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All the President’s Biscuits
Me and the world around me during the first half of July 2024, in 100 words per day.
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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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Tang Hall Beck
Sunny Saturdays with the sticklebacks and my friend John Lancaster. A memory of York from 1966.
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Fleetwood Mac
Posted on Mon, 10 Nov 2025
When I lived in Chippenham I used to regularly go with my kids to watch Bath City FC playing football at their ground in the Twerton district of the city.
During those matches I talked to and befriended many of the natives, one of which...
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Cheese
Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025
I was led to believe that it was something to do with a shortage of parmesan cheese over there and it stood for Make America Grate Again.
But we do need more accordions, and harmonicas.
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Hats
Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025
There's money to be made selling baseball hats bearing the words 'Make me great again, though I always have been'.
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Old Scotsmen
Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025
I've never met the Old Man of Storr (your description of him suggests he's quite a character) but I have met the Old Man of Hoy who seems like a similar sort of old man. They must get together to discuss which Scottish island they're going to...
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Lesley Garrett and Billy the Kid
Posted on Mon, 10 Nov 2025
A funny, sad and exhilarating journey from the bar to motherhood. Good on you for keeping those things and telling us about them and surviving Lesley Garrett.
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Brutal
Posted on Thu, 30 Oct 2025
The Celtic cross was an incredible piece of sculpting but I struggled to enjoy it because it was a memorial to a landowner (the Earl of Leitrim) who was an altogether unpleasant man though not as bad as his father who was assassinated by locals...
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Roots
Posted on Tue, 21 Oct 2025
I've moved around a lot in my life Jenny, so I've never been sure where home was. Family members had always told me that Ireland was home and when I go there it feels like that's true, so that's a big part of the reason I get the lumps. But...
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Nice one!
Posted on Tue, 21 Oct 2025
Nice one Paul... an eerie tale expertly written.
But if you don't mind I'll just point out a bit of a factual error. Brian Eno left Roxy Music nine years before they released Avalon. At that stage of the band's history only Bryan Ferry, ...
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Shells
Posted on Sun, 19 Oct 2025
It's hard to say what Priyatelkata does for a living. She sells seashells on the seashore.
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Funeral Fans
Posted on Sat, 18 Oct 2025
For me, your second paragraph sums up the seasonal changes and other people's peculiar approach to them. And I think and hope that Herbican's a fictitious character as you've demonstrated great skill in describing what a miserable character he is...
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