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Tom All Alone (13)

By HarryC on Wed, 18 Feb 2026

Tom would come to think of those two weeks in Cornwall as some of the happiest times he'd known. All the places they visited - as mum had promised,...

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Mistake

By HarryC on Sat, 14 Feb 2026

MISTAKE The paint’s chipped where you kicked the door shut that night - not in anger then, but the urgency of the moment: the surge that began with...

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A Trip to Dear Old Limerick...

By HarryC on Fri, 13 Feb 2026

A few of my old limericks! Image: mine There was an old prophet called Moses who didn’t like getting wet toeses. When he got to the sea he would part...

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Tom All Alone (12)

By HarryC on Thu, 12 Feb 2026

In August, dad borrowed a car from one of his mates at the pub for their two weeks' holiday. Next to Christmas, it was Tom's most exciting time of...

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Thanks, Jack. I do, too. I

Posted on Tue, 09 Jun 2026

Thanks, Jack. I do, too. I know what he's going through!

I'm conscious of trying not to make this too mawkish and 'poor me'. I've condensed the time-frames a bit, but not much. Most of this happened over the space of about 4 years. The...

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Thanks, Kat. Yes, this was

Posted on Tue, 09 Jun 2026

Thanks, Kat. Yes, this was mid-60s. My aunt and uncle had one of the brand new council flats that were starting to replace the old streets that were coming down. It was like walking into a palace.

I remember that dinner so vividly....

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I've always had struggles

Posted on Sat, 06 Jun 2026

I've always had struggles around people, to a greater or lesser degree. Part of the ASC, as I now realise. But I enjoyed the work in my last few years there - in social care. I got out of the care side after Covid (managed to work all through...

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Stress can affect the health

Posted on Sat, 06 Jun 2026

Stress can affect the health in so many ways, Kat. I've had PTSD in the past - once so bad (and, ironically, following on incident in adulthood that echoed the '3s' problem I've recently recorded in 'Tom All Alone') that I was unable to go out...

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I hope, too, this is not

Posted on Sat, 06 Jun 2026

I hope, too, this is not about you, Kat. I didn't read it that way at first, I admit.

Sorry that you've been so down, Jenny. I wouldn't worry about making people feel down, though. If it helps to write it out and post it, it's honest. And...

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Ha ha! It's a conversation I

Posted on Sat, 06 Jun 2026

Ha ha! It's a conversation I have, too! All those years of fitness and healthy eating (which I still maintain as much as I can) - so where did that paunch come from, those veins?

More seriously, I wasn't sure of the Attwood connection, so...

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Thanks, Kat. It's one of the

Posted on Tue, 02 Jun 2026

Thanks, Kat. It's one of the reasons I've always supported the underdog in any situation. I think being a bit of an outsider yourself is always helpful in that sense. You see things 'looking in' that you can't always see when right there in the...

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Thanks, Claudine. Even though

Posted on Tue, 02 Jun 2026

Thanks, Claudine. Even though that happened over 60 years ago, that day is as fresh in my mind as if it was last week. This account is pretty much verbatim. It was a defining moment in many ways - like a trauma that still gets triggered if I make...