HarryC
Primary tabs
| Type | Title | Author | Replies | Last updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Story | unkissed | celticman | 30 | 4 years 1 month ago |
| Story | Just a few words... | HarryC | 8 | 4 years 2 months ago |
| Story | More Pie | HarryC | 4 | 4 years 2 months ago |
| Story | Big Man Up Front | Terrence Oblong | 5 | 4 years 2 months ago |
| Story | Five Other People Are Looking At This Item | Jane Hyphen | 34 | 4 years 2 months ago |
| Story | Fading of Legends | marandina | 17 | 4 years 3 months ago |
| Story | Sealwatching | HarryC | 21 | 4 years 3 months ago |
| Story | In A Suffolk Ditch | Terrence Oblong | 7 | 4 years 3 months ago |
| Story | Sometimes forever | celticman | 17 | 4 years 3 months ago |
| Story | Things I Did On My Day Off | HarryC | 16 | 4 years 3 months ago |
| Story | Mistake | HarryC | 5 | 4 years 3 months ago |
| Story | Audio chapter from the audiobook of A Working Class State of Mind | colin.b | 3 | 4 years 3 months ago |
| Story | Money - some context | HarryC | 23 | 4 years 3 months ago |
| Story | Band of One | HarryC | 7 | 4 years 3 months ago |
| Story | The Den (Part 2) | HarryC | 3 | 4 years 3 months ago |
| Story | The Den (Part 1) | HarryC | 2 | 4 years 3 months ago |
| Story | Martin Luther King | jxmartin | 8 | 4 years 3 months ago |
| Story | Slipping The Escort | Terrence Oblong | 4 | 4 years 3 months ago |
| Story | Beneath This Broken Headstone | Terrence Oblong | 5 | 4 years 3 months ago |
| Story | BBBB | Di_Hard | 35 | 4 years 3 months ago |
| Story | Resolution | agnosticnun | 12 | 4 years 4 months ago |
| Story | The Specials | HarryC | 4 | 4 years 4 months ago |
| Story | Where We Are: a personal perspective | HarryC | 6 | 4 years 4 months ago |
| Story | A Martian in the Closet | HarryC | 23 | 4 years 4 months ago |
| Story | The Lake of Earth Sprirts | HarryC | 11 | 4 years 4 months ago |
Pages
My stories
Tom All Alone (6) (ii)
Mum stopped working at Gibney's and took another job cleaning at the pub where she and dad used to go in the evenings. On some days she took him with...
- Read more about Tom All Alone (6) (ii)
- 12 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 2640 reads
Tom All Alone (6) (i)
Then there were days when different things happened. Days when dad would take him out on the lorry when he did forage deliveries around the city and...
- Read more about Tom All Alone (6) (i)
- 4 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 1396 reads
Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Settling Up (ii)
A couple of days later, he came over again. He'd brought his copy of mum's key, so I now had them all. Four door keys in total, plus two for the back...
- Read more about Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Settling Up (ii)
- 4 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 2049 reads
Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Settling Up (i)
Following the final day with the clearance at the bungalow, it's time to pay some bills. (continued from 'Final Day') The next day, I went into Walsh...
- Read more about Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Settling Up (i)
- 4 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 1598 reads
Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Final Day
The final day of clearance at my mother's bungalow, following her death. Joanne, my niece, comes to help me as my brother has gone on holiday. Lottie...
- Read more about Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Final Day
- 7 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 2917 reads
'Our life is frittered away
Posted on Tue, 27 Aug 2024
'Our life is frittered away with detail. Simplify! Simplify!'
Henry David Thoreau
(as many have pointed out... one 'simplify' would have been enough, Henry!...
Read full commentPosted in Never Enough?
Letter in The Times a couple
Posted on Fri, 16 Aug 2024
Letter in The Times a couple of weeks ago:
Harriet Walter says that "there is nothing more depressing than a two-year-old in a buggy glued to a screen". I think that an adult pushing a buggy using a mobile phone and ignoring a...
Read full commentPosted in A Martian Sends a Postcard Home 2024
Yes, you're right. Any way
Posted on Fri, 16 Aug 2024
Yes, you're right. Any way you look at it, it's not good. I don't know what the answers are. Once an avalanche starts falling, you can't stop it. It'll only stop when it's destroyed everything in its path, and hits the bottom, and runs out of...
Read full commentPosted in A Martian Sends a Postcard Home 2024
I try to remain hopeful. But
Posted on Fri, 16 Aug 2024
I try to remain hopeful. But when you see how it's all being driven by the race to the top, and that the gap between the growth of capabilities and the development of safety mechanisms is so huge (1,000 to 1), then it's easy to see how it can...
Read full commentPosted in A Martian Sends a Postcard Home 2024
Thanks, Di. I think the
Posted on Fri, 16 Aug 2024
Thanks, Di. I think the addiction is understandable. It's an essential part of the business model for these platforms - the so-called 'attention economy'. The saying in Silicon Valley is 'If you aren't paying for the product, you are...
Read full commentPosted in A Martian Sends a Postcard Home 2024
I think of it as a bit of
Posted on Fri, 16 Aug 2024
I think of it as a bit of freedom, mate! It's funny, but I had a medical...
Read full commentPosted in A Martian Sends a Postcard Home 2024
I detest the whole culture of
Posted on Fri, 16 Aug 2024
I detest the whole culture of it, and refuse to have a smart phone. People call me a dinosaur. No, I'm not. Neither am I a lemming. I have a PC with internet connection, which I use when I choose to use it. I have a VPN to protect my privacy...
Read full commentPosted in A Martian Sends a Postcard Home 2024
Hi Turlough,
Posted on Thu, 15 Aug 2024
Hi Turlough,
Thanks for your comment. I had a couple of 'episodes' yesterday with BIG car drivers, which inspired the rant! The area I live in is full of them. I was reading that their numbers have jumped ten-fold globally since 2010,...
Read full commentPosted in SUV
Ah, The Blind Beggar. Oh,
Posted on Tue, 18 Jan 2022
Ah, The Blind Beggar. Oh, the times...
Great memories, mate.
That scene where Ollie runs out in front of the fire engine and jumps in the back of the van - I watched that being filmed. It took six takes over about 40...
Read full commentPosted in Things I Did On My Day Off
Cassiopeia - 'the big double
Posted on Tue, 18 Jan 2022
Cassiopeia - 'the big double-you!'
One of the few constellations I can remember, because of the shape.
A first reading has resonated with my own thoughts at this time. I may not be able to decode the images, but there's an...
Read full commentPosted in Fading of Legends
Pages