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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No-one Found

Nowadays we need closure. In the past, it might have been a long and lingering grief, we have forgotten what it is like not to know, which must make it even harder to bear. Image is PD, YAY!

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what it s a ys Image created by author at canva.com
Cherry

Let's Dance

Go on, let's image source: James Vaughan, flicker.com Image Licence Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Cherry

Click-Track For A Life’s Movie

The click track was sufficiently useful as a synchronization tool that it became part of standard recording technology, whether for films, radio or other sound recording and the click track was applied to one of the tracks on a multitrack tape recorder. From wikipedia.org
Cherry

For As Long As

For my parents. image is PD.
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411 of my comments have received 454 Great Feedback votes

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No, I didn't either

Posted on Sat, 26 Aug 2017

 because by the time I started with OU Eliot and Pound were no longer "suitable". I bought Eliot's poetry with annotations. I was lucky that I'd studied Latin and French to to A-Level along with English. No Eliot there either! I love the...

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Posted in Evening Walk in a Seaside Town

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Madcap

Posted on Mon, 09 Sep 2019

humour is the only antidote to extremism... Where are the satirists? They should be firing broadsides port and starboard, the answer to the rise of the right is most definitely not a jump to the left, despite what Frank'N'Furter says.
Ah...

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Posted in Tsk

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Sad and Wistful

Posted on Mon, 09 Sep 2019

laughter in the dark. I hope it makes you feel better, because it does me - and I expect it does everyone with any sense who reads it. Brava!

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Posted in Pad Life 6: The Elephant In The Room

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This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day

Posted on Tue, 20 Aug 2019

The ever quirky hudsonmoon tries something different today and by golly it works well. That's why it's our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day. Why not share or retweet if you like it too?

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Posted in The Son God

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This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day.

Posted on Tue, 13 Aug 2019

A comforting read, do click the link and listen to it being read extremely well by the author.
Why not share or retweet if you like it too?

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It's fairly recent

Posted on Wed, 14 Aug 2019

from a US radio advertising campaign from the 30's I think. It means this is going/has started well - possibly after repeated failed attempts. Popularised by Jack Benny and the like in comedy sketches thereafter.

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Posted in Cooking On Gas

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This

Posted on Tue, 30 Jul 2019

topical piece captures the futility of getting away from it all, whatever "it" is, it's in our baggage and that's why it's our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day.

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Posted in removed for submission

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Most enjoyable.

Posted on Thu, 07 Feb 2019

One or two things. Incognito is one word.
Kirk is almost exclusively used for Church in the Church of Scotland. Your priest(s) are Catholics, I presume, since they practise the rite of Exorcism. 

I like the idea of the stories being...

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Posted in Adam Maxwell -Farquhar (Tale 2)

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I wonder

Posted on Thu, 31 Jan 2019

what the playground chants are now... we used to parrot chants about Ho Chi Minh, with no clue where Vietnam was. This has that kind of hypnotic rhythm. Cleverly done.

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Ewan

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Posted in Don't count your chickens

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Lots to Enjoy

Posted on Fri, 21 Dec 2018

 in this deceptively simple poem. I wonder if wouldn't work better without the first line? You show us all of that in the rest of the poem.
This is particularly beautiful

I turn once more to the laundry.
It is evening now
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Posted in love and laundry

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