Ewan
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Ewan Lawrie
The picture is me signing copies of my novel, Gibbous House at Unbound Books HQ in Islington by the canal.
All three Moffat novels are available here
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An Anarchist Evening at the Magic Theatre
What do you mean you don't understand it? I was hoping you'd explain it to me! More Sack-like than Hessian... Image PD from wikipedia
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Next Year, I'm Going to Travel
Travel as metaphor? Probably not... Image: Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0 < https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0> , via Wikimedia Commons
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Juke Box Jive
As simple as it gets. Image from flicker.com : CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
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Imperfect Beauty
... and by that token, this is very beautiful indeed. Image author's own.
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Eve Still Spins
Umm... I'm sure you'll figure it out. Image is PD painting is in Carlisle Art Gallery, attributed to Italian School c.1650
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Well done
Posted on Wed, 10 Jul 2024
not quite the ending I was expecting (that's a good thing, BTW) despite the clues.
Not sure about Just Stop Oil's methods myself. Equally, I want to know how long it took them to get to Stonehenge on their pushbikes, because of course...
Read full commentPosted in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A Cancer Diary
Posted on Wed, 14 Jun 2023
is something that many patients - as my wife was - are advised by the assigned medical team to keep. Very few see the light of day, my wife's didn't, but everyone has to deal with cancer in their own way. I haven't read my wife's diary. We are...
Read full commentPosted in Cancer Log 3
We used to look forward to
Posted on Mon, 09 May 2022
The Day of Victory celebrations every year at Teufelsberg, (West Berlin Listening Post) because it meant there was no operational flying by AFGSFG The Air Force of the Group of Forces Germany, which was what NATO named the Soviet Air Force(s) in...
Read full commentPosted in A Final Message From Moscow
I liked this one
Posted on Tue, 03 Aug 2021
very much. You've a good eye for small town life. I knew lots of Bindys when I was that age. It was funny when they came back, they looked the same but they were very different. I never really understood it until I joined the RAF at 21 and went...
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Congratulations! This is our Pick of the Day 20th February 2024
Posted on Tue, 20 Feb 2024
Taut, terse and intriguing, this is our pick of the day. Please share on whatever social media you use, fellow ABC-ers
Read full commentPosted in New Directions (12)
Congratulations! This is Our Poem of the Week 22 Dec 23
Posted on Tue, 19 Dec 2023
Well said and well done.
Could our readers please spread the word on social media?
Read full commentPosted in 6:26am Train
Congratulations! This is our Pick of the Day Friday 22 Dec 2023
Posted on Thu, 21 Dec 2023
Written like an 8-and-a-half-year-old Joyce - that's James Joyce, not Joyce Grenfell... Although... No seriously, folks, this captures the breathless jumble of thoughts, half-understood things, fears and hopes of almost any kid of that age....
Read full commentPosted in Children of the Absolution
Those that aren't too far
Posted on Tue, 24 Oct 2023
on the other side of dementia's curtain can be good company. My dad just shrank away to nothing at all, really. After my dad died, it hit my mum with full force - couldn't tell the time, didn't know what day it was, hiding things. None of which...
Read full commentPosted in Message From The Care Home Front
Congratulations! This is today's Pick of the Day 23rd Aug 2023
Posted on Tue, 22 Aug 2023
Congratulations. Evokes a time and a place with great skill and that's why it's our pick of the day.
Part One is here if you haven't read it. ...
Read full commentPosted in Steve Mason and the Last Day of School (Part Two of Two)
This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day
Posted on Sun, 02 Oct 2022
A slice of history, almost 40 years ago. I was in uniform then, Air Force blue, but admired those at Faslane and Greenham. Futile in the end, but what days of innocence and belief.
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Posted in A Break in the Clouds - my Memories of living at Faslane Peace Camp back in August 1983
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