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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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her mum's right. If a ring
Posted on Tue, 14 Nov 2023
her mum's right. If a ring suits, she really should get married. makes sense especially in such a multicultural society. Look forward to seeing and hearing how she explains the man/robot in the toilet.
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yes, it seems that every kid
Posted on Mon, 13 Nov 2023
yes, it seems that every kid now has 50000 photos before they are five. When they ask what was I doing then? A photofile is always in bloom. An old fashioned diary is not everyone's choice. But for people like us it gives us a voice.
Read full commentPosted in I Never Kept A Diary
we mourn our loss of
Posted on Mon, 13 Nov 2023
we mourn our loss of innocence. We are blinded. Often by choice. I guess we've no skin in the game, the least we can say is not in my name.
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there were words I didn't
Posted on Thu, 09 Nov 2023
there were words I didn't know but the meaning is clear, I think.
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the seasons are changing.
Posted on Wed, 08 Nov 2023
the seasons are changing. your words catchng the light brings them closer.
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it is a worry, being normal.
Posted on Tue, 07 Nov 2023
it is a worry, being normal. A very human worry.
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there aren't that many good
Posted on Mon, 06 Nov 2023
there aren't that many good bits. But you tease them out. Thanks for your journal from that faraway place many of us will visit.
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whatever is imaginable we've
Posted on Sat, 28 Oct 2023
whatever is imaginable we've already done. Peace is not imaginable. Equality is not imaginable.
Read full commentPosted in open your eyes!
sad in many ways, Jenny, but
Posted on Mon, 30 Oct 2023
sad in many ways, Jenny, but you've created a Remebering that is more than old skin and bone.
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anyone that says they are a
Posted on Tue, 31 Oct 2023
anyone that says they are a real human man is probably a bot surrogate.
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