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Assorted writers' groups, the odd anthology, occasional readings.  Lots of looking out of the window.  Hello, and thanks for dropping by.

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Readings of Episodes One and Two of the Pad Life Journals are now available on Sound Cloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-968566758   More to follow!

 

 

 

 

915 of my comments have received 990 Great Feedback votes

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I confess to having bought an

Posted on Sat, 14 Mar 2020

I confess to having bought an extra bag of cat litter, just in case.  Most things I can do without but, should I get stuck indoors, I don't fancy being cooped up with a fussy moggie and no cat litter!  

You're right - it is easy to lose...

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Posted in Does Anyone Know If There Is A Hotline For Alien Abduction? I'd Like To Request One. We Have Lost Our Collective Minds.

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Nice to see Josiah and

Posted on Mon, 16 Mar 2020

Nice to see Josiah and Archibald again!  And nice to be able to get a bit of a laugh out of the present situation.  

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Posted in An Ill Wind

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I hope you too keep well and

Posted on Sat, 07 Mar 2020

I hope you too keep well and safe, Grace.  Perhaps your colleague who fancies a longer holiday due to coronavirus should remember that if she does get it, she'll be in quarantine and confined to her room rather than being able to lounge round the...

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Posted in The Coronavirus Part Two.

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I suppose it's just a

Posted on Thu, 05 Mar 2020

I suppose it's just a question of waiting for it to blow itself out, as these things do.  I'm not minimising it - it's worrying for people with underlying health conditions - but I'm just hoping that people don't panic, because panic can be as...

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Posted in Coronavirus

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There are hints all the way

Posted on Fri, 07 Feb 2020

There are hints all the way through this, but the ending still comes as an horrific jolt.  Another vote for the car crash here.

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Posted in homemaker

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The whole farage-o keeps

Posted on Fri, 17 Jan 2020

The whole farage-o keeps reminding me of Leslie Phillips's lascivious 'Ding Dong'.  I bet Mark Francois stands up to salute a buxom Brexit when it goes by.  

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Posted in The Bongs of Ben

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The Engineer sounds like he's

Posted on Sat, 04 Jan 2020

The Engineer sounds like he's a chum of the damn woman who keeps visiting me, standing there with her spectacles perched on her nose and her whip in her hand, demanding 'Yes, but what's it actually ABOUT?' or 'Really?  You think anyone's going to...

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Posted in Shooting The Engineer

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Read this several times and

Posted on Sat, 04 Jan 2020

Read this several times and enjoyed it more each time.  Surreal in the best sense of the word.

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Posted in The first step

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There will be so many things

Posted on Fri, 03 Jan 2020

There will be so many things vanishing soon.  A lovely eulogy for those things that we have already lost.  

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Posted in You can’t cling to something once it has gone.

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Wonderful use of language - I

Posted on Sun, 29 Dec 2019

Wonderful use of language - I have read this aloud several times now, enjoying it more each time.  The dark humour and the little details that build up the picture, the rhythm like a piece of music itself.  A tremendous read.

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Posted in The emergency bassoonist

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