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June Collins
Tam Collin’s mum’s funeral was during lockdown. Tam was around the same age as me, so I guess that put her in her eighties. I knew Tam’s son too, Tam...
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george devine
George Devine died before lockdown. He wouldn’t have known what it meant, or recognised it as a historical event of before and—I hadn’t seen him in...
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Dade Simpson
David (Dade) Simpson had been one of my best mates at school. But he hadn’t started that way. He’d challenged me to fight on our first days at the...
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Pieman
I’d squeezed through the gap in the iron railings, I’d heard the shouts, and then saw there was a game on the gravel park. I no longer played, was...
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A Pile Up of Boys
The secretaries behind the sliding-glass panels of their office space watched us with sidelong glances as they went about their business. I guessed...
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I've no idea where the body
Posted on Mon, 26 Jun 2023
I've no idea where the body is Jane. I guess I'll find out. I'm glad Prudential is good for something.
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Bucketing here, Jenny. I
Posted on Tue, 27 Jun 2023
Bucketing here, Jenny. I spotted some rasberries this morning, Jenny. Can't really remember making jam. But I remember someone else's homemade. I also can't remember if blackberrie and rasberries are much the same, like brother and sister. Or is...
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Back in home turf: Barrow. I
Posted on Mon, 26 Jun 2023
Back in home turf: Barrow. I think you're on book three or four. I haven't read them. But I like Nash and hate Midsummer and Poirot. If he's watching that no suprise he wants to kill himself.
Read full commentPosted in Hush Hush Honeysuckle: Chapter 1
sounds like quite an
Posted on Sun, 25 Jun 2023
sounds like quite an adventure. Most kids would jump at the chance. Jam or not.
Read full commentPosted in The land of candy and lollipops
discombubulating. And great
Posted on Fri, 23 Jun 2023
discombubulating. And great ending. Great story. An empathetic insight to why some things are more frightful than others.
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stoke v viennna. Stoke all
Posted on Fri, 23 Jun 2023
stoke v viennna. Stoke all day.
Read full commentPosted in A Viennese Whirl
never trust a politician.
Posted on Fri, 23 Jun 2023
never trust a politician. Jess of the Oaks has a bucolic charm, but we know...
Read full commentPosted in Waiting for the Flyers Part 13: Jess of the Oaks
RIP. I haven't really been
Posted on Thu, 22 Jun 2023
RIP. I haven't really been following this story. But as you point out, it's not a story. It was human beings that died.
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wiwth [with] it doesn't
Posted on Thu, 22 Jun 2023
wiwth [with] it doesn't usuall hurt. that gives the game away. it does. especially as you call it a 'weapon'. Good description. Hallo Lena. Don't stay long.
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lovely read. trains have sat
Posted on Tue, 20 Jun 2023
lovely read. trains have sat nav. They're always on the right track.
Read full commentPosted in Trans Europe Express
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