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It’s closing time when Dermot leaves the pub. The last round of drinks with his mates he’s downed a couple of goldies, the whiskies flowing through...
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grimms17
Jaz and Rab guard the bottom of the close, the wind scouring the back courts. The bins are on fire again. Flames leaving smouldering debris, the...
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grimms16
Instead of going home, Jaz kept walking. Not far, a few closes along, on another day, a good summer’s day, he could lean out the window and give Rab...
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grimms15
‘Get up, ya lazy bastard!’ Jaz’s mum Senga shouts at her son. ‘It’s almost twelve, why don’t yeh go out and get a job like aw the rest of them? I...
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grimms14
Jaz didn’t like wearing a hat, even though it was raining hard, because he thought it made him bald. Not that anybody would laugh at him. They wouldn...
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“Are you the Andrew Gumnerson
Posted on Mon, 02 Mar 2020
“Are you the Andrew Gumnerson [well, it’s close to my name] who wrote Escape from Alcatraz?”
#I'm sorry to have written to you Anderw Gummerson.
#p.s. this is great. i also escaped from Alcatraz and other council flats.
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we were all modern once. well
Posted on Wed, 26 Feb 2020
we were all modern once. well, apart from me. I was talking to my neighbour yesterday and she was telling me how she was at her grannies and people were out in the rain flinging coins under the tracks as the last tram passed (away). I was able to...
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rbs chairman £700 000 per
Posted on Sat, 22 Feb 2020
rbs chairman £700 000 per annum pension fund. ahem
Read full commentPosted in September 15th 2008
we all need to gather and
Posted on Wed, 12 Feb 2020
we all need to gather and tend as much light as we can.
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sad. but was it prayer (and
Posted on Tue, 11 Feb 2020
sad. but was it prayer (and time) wasted?
Read full commentPosted in A Lesson In Life. Part Two.
I guess we read things into
Posted on Tue, 11 Feb 2020
I guess we read things into objects. Can't say I like Gordon.
Read full commentPosted in Gordon Ramsay, A Lesson In Life. Part One.
I guess we all worry that way
Posted on Sun, 09 Feb 2020
I guess we all worry that way and wolves come in many forms.
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a different generation, a
Posted on Fri, 07 Feb 2020
a different generation, a different life. In some ways a harder life.
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lost some narrative structure
Posted on Fri, 07 Feb 2020
lost some narrative structure here. Compelling as it is, turned into a rant. You can't hate your reader for not knowing. Not experiencing. Teach us in truth by telling a story that resonates in our hearts. The simple truth I understand is most-...
Read full commentPosted in Recognizing a Hero In Addict (7 cont&8)
this is great. I enjoyed
Posted on Tue, 14 Jan 2020
this is great. I enjoyed reading it. I can see how so much training would make you incredibly fit, but, ironically, have such adverse affect on your bones. The killer line is it became drudgery. Just another way of making a buck. Amen to that. I...
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