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Chris Alexander 1958-2009 RIP.
Gordy reminded me of the time Chris Alexander got lifted. He’d been coming back from the Boilermakers on Dumbarton Road, Chris was always a smart...
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Sooz 7
Breaking into at trot at Partick Cross, a rumble of thunder and squall of rain followed Badger and Eddie as they crossed Dumbarton Road and pushed...
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Sooz 6
On a three hour train journey, with drink involved and money on the table, fights broke out with the frequency of barroom brawls in The High...
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Sooz 5
Better get goin’, or we’ll miss the train,’ Badger had to crane his neck to speak in Eddie’s ear. A DJ dressed as Elvis but wearing an orange wig appeared and he’d pumped the volume up, flinging in a medley of ABBA classics beginning with Winner Take it All and working his way back to Waterloo to get the girls dancing.
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Sooz 4
Groups of men stood near the walkways leading to the flight deck. Unshaven fellows with bleary eyes fooling about like young lads in thick boots and...
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the mirage is the mirror to a
Posted on Tue, 14 Sep 2021
the mirage is the mirror to a larger hunger.
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I guess we're all galactic
Posted on Sat, 11 Sep 2021
I guess we're all galactic travellers, especially on the A29.
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I'm a reader that writes
Posted on Sat, 04 Sep 2021
I'm a reader that writes stuff nobody much reads. I've written a couple of longer, novel sized stories. One, in particular, I think is good and should be published. Sometimes I send it off. But I don't expect it to be publsihed. I don't really...
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Pie-charts never add up. if
Posted on Fri, 03 Sep 2021
Pie-charts never add up. if you index-link they sink. as pictograms, chewy as...yeh, great way to spend more than a day.
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time passes slow and it takes
Posted on Fri, 03 Sep 2021
time passes slow and it takes you with it. well done.
Read full commentPosted in In The Late Summer Years
twenty-years old [hyphen, I
Posted on Mon, 30 Aug 2021
twenty-years old [hyphen, I think]
beat-up dog.
could only have dreamt (delete 'of')
Whilst we couldn't ever remember meeting there, we got on from the first second (delete 'we met')
quiite a view from the summit....
Read full commentPosted in Chinese Whispers (edited and updated, 2021)
funny thing memory, who we
Posted on Fri, 27 Aug 2021
funny thing memory, who we are and who we are not. Dad and not dad. I'd the same thing with my mother. Mum and not Mum. When she died I said I was delighted. People might have taken that the wrong way, but not Mum had no life.
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grim and grit gets under you
Posted on Fri, 27 Aug 2021
grim and grit gets under you fingernail, but that was marriage for you.
Read full commentPosted in Marriage And Motherhood Never Suited Her
I wonder if kids will know
Posted on Mon, 23 Aug 2021
I wonder if kids will know what SWALK is? but you certainly do. SWALK to you too. Well done.
Read full commentPosted in Love Letters From The Past S.W.A.L.K.
good stuff. I was wating for
Posted on Wed, 25 Aug 2021
good stuff. I was wating for Cole to turn up. As a seasoned reader of chimes, I knew he would.
Read full commentPosted in Wind Chimes on the Boardwalk
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