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Stevie Mitchell 1966-2009
The talk was Stevie Mitchell found a body down the canal when he was running, underneath the Erskine Bridge. Not all jumpers make the water. I know...
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Hamish Murdoch 1964-2007
‘Hi-yah Hamish,’ the kids at the back lane used to shout at me as I wandered down off the canal path to buy a paper from the shop on Dumbarton Road...
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Davie McCallum 1971-
When Davie McCallum, aged 31, went missing on 28 th March 2003 his son David (junior) was aged five and about to start school. Now he’ll be twenty-...
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Benny Hagen
Press reports are structured like a triangle, the weight of information balanced on the first line. Nobody much called Benny Hagen, Bernard, until he...
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Jim Welsh (Largactil) 13/3/1964—6/10/2012.
I didn’t go to Jim Welsh’s funeral. I didn’t hear about it until later, and I think it was Sharpie that told me. I wasn’t upset, just sad about the...
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wife better? deal with the
Posted on Mon, 02 Oct 2023
wife better? deal with the devil? But we know it doesn't work. What next?
Read full commentPosted in Devil's Advocate (Part Two of Three)
a favourite tree isn't going
Posted on Mon, 02 Oct 2023
a favourite tree isn't going to run away any time soon., Jenny. Great to honour it
Read full commentPosted in Beneath My Favourite Tree
I rember Choppers. I'd have
Posted on Fri, 29 Sep 2023
I rember Choppers. I'd have been about 11. And the even shiter optiion. Chipper.
Read full commentPosted in The Fall of the Mountain King
you make much of not much
Posted on Tue, 26 Sep 2023
you make much of not much more than movement. always enough to draw the eye.
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no dark corners in the sea.
Posted on Tue, 26 Sep 2023
no dark corners in the sea. We bring them with us.
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happy dreams, indeed Jenny.
Posted on Thu, 21 Sep 2023
happy dreams, indeed Jenny.
Read full commentPosted in Tempestuous Stirrings
I wonder where tthose dreams
Posted on Wed, 20 Sep 2023
I wonder where tthose dreams go when we get older? Mum is always mum.
Read full commentPosted in The Man in My Bedroom
you are a nomad Jenny, but
Posted on Sat, 09 Sep 2023
you are a nomad Jenny, but you always return to poetry and bring the words home.
Read full commentPosted in Expanding The Mind
I didn't expect that. As an
Posted on Wed, 13 Sep 2023
I didn't expect that. As an expert on armaggedon, I didn't expect armaggedon. God knows.
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Old dears. That sounds like
Posted on Thu, 24 Aug 2023
Old dears. That sounds like Nellie. You and the cat did well too. Not so old dears.
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