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Tom Tom Turnaround (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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Clearing the loft
In continuing with the final draft of 'Gift', I've reached the point where I'm clearing out my mother's bungalow following her death. I'd been...
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It was written with tongue
Posted on Fri, 20 Sep 2024
It was written with tongue planted firmly in cheek! Having said that, it was an attempt to challenge some misconceptions and stereotypes... and poke a bit of fun at attitudes.
Yes, it means different things to different people - sadly, so...
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Okay... here's the SoundCloud
Posted on Fri, 20 Sep 2024
Okay... here's the SoundCloud file. Best I can do, I'm afraid. It lacks the dynamic of a stage performance.
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Yes, absolutely. That stigma
Posted on Sun, 15 Sep 2024
Yes, absolutely. That stigma is, thankfully, being broken down. But it's still there.
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Thank you, Jenny. I'm
Posted on Sat, 14 Sep 2024
Thank you, Jenny. I'm grateful for this comment - and I agree so much with what you say. I was a child of the '60s. They were tough times. But I still can't help but look back on my life and think I've been lucky, and lived it without this '...
Read full commentPosted in Where Are We Now? Ted Kaczynski and Technological Society
Absolutely. And they almost
Posted on Sat, 14 Sep 2024
Absolutely. And they almost resolutely ignore that. Corporations like Amazon and Google, too, who use our buildings and infrastructure and get away with paying no or little tax. It defeats me how it's allowed to happen. I guess it comes down...
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I can hear Tom in every word
Posted on Sun, 15 Sep 2024
I can hear Tom in every word - in that 'The Piano Has Been Drinking' voice!
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He's not kidding me - just as
Posted on Sat, 14 Sep 2024
He's not kidding me - just as Blair didn't. Labour is Labour in name only now. As a lifelong socialist, my conscience is clear in not helping this wanker get elected. Well said, Yutka.
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First class!
Posted on Fri, 13 Sep 2024
First class!
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The 'double empathy' problem
Posted on Fri, 13 Sep 2024
The 'double empathy' problem helps to explain it. If you get two people together from entirely different cultures, with no sharing of language, belief system, cultural norms, etc... they'll have the same problem. I've a theory that it's at the...
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Same here. Chuckling all the
Posted on Fri, 13 Sep 2024
Same here. Chuckling all the way. Laughed out loud at
'You turn to the wife and kids. They are sitting in the car. The signs are bad but they still have hope.'
And 'The Majestic Hote.' Great!
Made me think of a Denzel...
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