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5. Secondhand Prose

By HarryC on Wed, 25 Feb 2026

What it says, really. A piece from years ago that I've rewritten to fit with something new. Next morning, I sat down with a pot of coffee and rolled...
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Tom All Alone (13)

By HarryC on Wed, 18 Feb 2026

Tom would come to think of those two weeks in Cornwall as some of the happiest times he'd known. All the places they visited - as mum had promised,...
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Mistake

By HarryC on Sat, 14 Feb 2026

MISTAKE The paint’s chipped where you kicked the door shut that night - not in anger then, but the urgency of the moment: the surge that began with...
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A Trip to Dear Old Limerick...

By HarryC on Fri, 13 Feb 2026

A few of my old limericks! Image: mine There was an old prophet called Moses who didn’t like getting wet toeses. When he got to the sea he would part...
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Tom All Alone (12)

By HarryC on Thu, 12 Feb 2026

In August, dad borrowed a car from one of his mates at the pub for their two weeks' holiday. Next to Christmas, it was Tom's most exciting time of...
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165 of my comments have received 178 Great Feedback votes

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Thanks, Tom. I don't judge.

Posted on Wed, 25 Feb 2026

Thanks, Tom. I sincerely hope I don't judge, and can't really see any element of judgment here. Perhaps I'm overlooking something. If Harry's judgment (a fictional narrator) is that he couldn't make anything of the story ideas, then that just...

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Posted in 5. Secondhand Prose

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I'm not sure it's a pastiche.

Posted on Thu, 19 Feb 2026

I'm not sure it's a pastiche. In spite of resonances, I think it's highly original. Congratulations. Well-deserved.

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Posted in Courtesy Calls: The Fire Lane (1)

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Duly noted, Claudine. Sorry.

Posted on Sun, 01 Feb 2026

Duly noted, Claudine. Sorry. Comments edited. blush

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Posted in I’ve Got a Gal in Tiramisu

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With you on that, Turlough.

Posted on Mon, 02 Jun 2025

With you on that, Turlough. It was behind my decision not to have children, in the end.  With AI being predicted to wipe out many white-collar jobs soon, too, children today face a future more uncertain than at any time in our lifetimes.  We...

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Posted in Population decline

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I genuinely think her heart's

Posted on Thu, 26 Sep 2024

I genuinely think her heart's in the right place.  She uses her wealth to good social ends.  I find her music and her presence quite bland, uninspiring and forgettable - Joni Mitchell or Patti Smith she ain't -  but am glad if she can make some...

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Posted in On the Wind

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“No, it’s a tediously nasal

Posted on Sat, 14 Sep 2024

“No, it’s a tediously nasal-sounding middle-aged white man in a cape.” 

Brilliant.  I retire next year on only the state pension.  And as I've worked for fifty years, I'll get the full state pension.  Which'll make me £12 a month above...

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Posted in Sir Kier Starmer Superhero – Sir Kier and the energy crisis

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I heard a joke recently:

Posted on Sun, 08 Sep 2024

I heard a joke recently:

'How do you know if someone's autistic?'

'They'll tell you.'

Hm.

One of the biggest laughs I had was at a comedy night where one of the comedians was disabled.  He used his metal crutches to...

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Posted in A hundred moments in autism - Autistic Comedy Night

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And it's a very common

Posted on Mon, 04 Mar 2019

And it's a very common experience with high-functioning autistics - as I read and hear all the time from others.  Even in my last job, with an autism charity, the lack of proper understanding was profound.  I left in the end because of a bullying...

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Posted in The Love of the Loveless (Chapter 6) (8)

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I understand the info

Posted on Tue, 06 Nov 2018

I understand the info overload!  It's all a lot to take in, and it takes time to process.  I'm 3 years past diagnosis now, and I'm still running the numbers.  To use the old cliche, it's a rollercoaster.  So many positives... but the other side...

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Posted in Aspie Life

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Thanks, Stephen.  It takes

Posted on Tue, 06 Nov 2018

Thanks, Stephen.  It takes some processing - and we're good at that!  I over-analyse everything.

I tried to make this not so much about behaviours and more about how Aspies perceive the world.  It's one of the reasons that diagnosis is so...

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Posted in Aspie Life

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