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.
Both Moffat novels are available here
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A Letter to Untethered Books Ltd.
I am not Walter De La Mare's great-grandson and I don't live in Arizona. Image is PD
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Not Much Cop
The barrel needs changing, it's not enough to claim there are just a few bad apples... image has no known copyright issues
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Bronte's Inferno XXVIII (All Of Ken Dodd's)
Surprised me too. Image copyright status under investigation.
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Bronte's Inferno XXVII (Perhaps I Shouldn't Have)
Whatever next? (I don't know either...) Image is from Wiki-commons.
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Bronte's Inferno XXVI (Moonlighting)
Well here's another slice of - well - ham, I suppose. I made the image myself at canva.com, bet you can't believe that.
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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...
Read full commentPosted in Death of a Power Station
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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
This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day
Posted on Fri, 22 Jul 2022
Succinct and vivid, this poem takes you there, and that's why it's our Pick of the Day.
Congratulations!
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Read full commentPosted in Bed and Board by The Silk Road
Love this so far,
Posted on Wed, 20 Apr 2022
Jack.
I do have one quibble. Ugly Puggly's last two bits of dialogue are a bit didactic. Whilst the sentiment behind the words is true, it comes over as a little authorial, even though the words come out of UP's mouth. This:
"we can'...
Read full commentPosted in Ugly Puggly 7
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Posted on Mon, 14 Mar 2022
A splendid depiction of ourselves as a parasitic blight on Gaia itself. Skilfully done and with possibly the first use of 'Agrestal' I've ever seen in a poem.
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Posted in This Cannot Be Our Home
One of the hard truths
Posted on Wed, 02 Mar 2022
is that our armed forces are not up to contributing to a coalition force at the same level as that which went to Iraq. Or indeed to Afghanistan. This is fine. Limiting defence spending to sufficient to defend the realm is sensible. Just don't...
Read full commentPosted in Listening to the News 2/3/22
Strange and evocative
Posted on Thu, 18 Nov 2021
There is great beauty in your work. Looking forward to your collection.
E x
Read full commentPosted in The Solitude of Sleep
This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day
Posted on Mon, 06 Sep 2021
What if, indeed. This great piece from a returning contributor is the story of the lucky escape we get most times we buy a ticket and how we overthink things.
Why not share and/or retweet if you like it too, dear readers?
Read full commentPosted in Being Careful What You Wish For
Ah yes,
Posted on Mon, 06 Sep 2021
what a double-edged sword that big win might be!
You have a typo in the penultimate stanza "op-des" vice "op-eds".
Really splendid writing, Ed.
E x
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