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Tom All Alone (9) (iii)
The boys agreed to say nothing about the man, and just say that Tom had got frightened on the Ghost Train. Tom had expected mum to be angry with him...
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Tom All Alone (9) (ii)
The car swung abruptly towards the doors, forcing Tom to lean against the man, and then the doors clattered shut behind them and they were into the...
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Tom All Alone (9) (i)
I've published this piece before, in another novel. But I've lifted it out and rewritten it. It rightly belongs in 'Tom All Alone'. Apologies to...
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4. Away with Words (iii)
After he'd gone, I finished my coffee and sat in the armchair to read. Through the bedroom door, I could see the two black sacks sitting there,...
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4. Away with Words (ii)
I sniffed. Then I dropped it in the bag with the others and knotted the top. It was all too much for my little shredder, and I wasn't going risk any...
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'Canine Pup Resuscitation'
Posted on Tue, 17 Feb 2026
'Canine Pup Resuscitation'
Great story. Well-deserved gilded fruit!
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So did we! We never actually
Posted on Thu, 12 Feb 2026
So did we! We never actually booked anywhere - just took pot luck. And we were always lucky. I remember even in the early '80s, we went down to Devon for a holiday one year and managed to get a caravan on a farm site near Totnes with no trouble,...
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Yes... I can hear it now. And
Posted on Fri, 13 Feb 2026
Yes... I can hear it now. And I'm always making those jumps. Spotify killed the HMV Shop (though they're coming back!)
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I was living near Totnes in
Posted on Thu, 05 Feb 2026
I was living near Totnes in the '70s. I started work there when I was 15 - at Hill's Devon Cider, near Ashburton. Maybe you sampled our wares on one of those evenings. ...
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A period I remember well.
Posted on Thu, 05 Feb 2026
A period I remember well. First job, first wages, first taste of a different sort of music.
'the demise of the Lib-Lab pact and the Thatcher challenge' Oh yes. Can we ever forget?
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Ah, youth. Where does it go?
Posted on Thu, 05 Feb 2026
Ah, youth. Where does it go?
I'm still a hippy now, in my own way
...
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Another wonderful story!
Posted on Sat, 06 Oct 2018
Another wonderful story!
I wrote a book about those final few months I spent with mum - 'Gift' on here. I've never been remotely superstitious or religious. But I have come to believe in things like parallel universes and serendipity. I...
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When my mum was learning
Posted on Sun, 01 Feb 2026
When my mum was learning computing, I encouraged her to write down her childhood memories. She did it for a while, but then got disillusioned. 'They don't go anywhere. They're just memories.' Bless her, she thought she had to give them a plot to...
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Wonderful. I love the mix of
Posted on Sun, 01 Feb 2026
Wonderful. I love the mix of the personal, local, global, universal and surreal in these. Makes me think of Alan Bennett's diaries. Wonder what the Trumpians will come up with next in their mangling of truth and language.
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Fabulous. So many great lines
Posted on Sun, 01 Feb 2026
Fabulous. So many great lines and images.
'Outside, rain splices the city's circuitry.'
'the hum of nothing happening,'
What lives where signals stop... something that so often gets lost now, or dies - like that silence in...
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