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Thursday, 26 July 2018

As luck would have it . . .

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Given that this blog had its origins in a diary I kept for many years in the pre-digital days when the world was still in B&W, it would ...
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Sunday, 15 July 2018

Bit by bit by bloody small bit this hopeless guitar player is becoming just a little less hopeless. Onwards and upwards (or whatever cliche you prefer, you know what I mean. Never stop trying, something it has taken me a little longer to learn than others)

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NB Included in this post are some tunes which your browser should be able to play, though sometimes certain browser/OS combinations cannot. ...
Saturday, 30 June 2018

Was he or was he not? Who knows? Who cares? Well, not me particularly, but it is interesting. Then there’s the matter on which I shall say nothing, nothing at all...

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In a previous entry , I promised to conclude a - rather long-winded - account about why I think it more likely that my father, who I had so ...
Monday, 11 June 2018

So THAT’S what displacement activity is! Well! I must ring all my friends and tell them, though I can’t do it quite yet as I really, really must get on with sorting out that hairbrush. And then there’s the bloody bog roll roller – sticking again. So I might not manage to ring around to later today or maybe tomorrow

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Well, it’s been ten weeks since my new life started and I’m slowly getting used to it, although it hasn’t quite gone to plan. But that is no...
Thursday, 31 May 2018

Weddings, spies, dads who might or might not have been spies, lunch with aunts, dancing in the moonlight (although there wasn’t any in fact on the night) - it’s all too, too much. (Part One - The Teaser)

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Back from a very pleasant few days at my sister’s in the far North-West of Germany (as in ‘pretty far North’ but ‘very far West’ - you could...
Sunday, 13 May 2018

Simply file under 'Will this do?' If you think that's a tad cryptic, read on to find out what the bloody hell I am on about

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It’s odd: I’ve been wanting to write this post for a while, but each time I started it, the little I had written struck me as so ineffably b...
Monday, 23 April 2018

My thanks to one Neil Cooper, a philosopher, for doing what we should all to: encourage each other. Mr - subsequently Professor - Cooper brought about a one-off minor miracle in my life. And if you read on, you will see why I must also apologise to the good man, and do so now again, publicly

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NB I have a little gizmo at the bottom of this page - it shows about the last four entries - which tells me (in some browsers) when the most...
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Wednesday, 11 April 2018

I am honourably discharged from Her Majesty’s Press, am handed the traditional tin of Werther’s Originals and can look forward to many years of peace and tranquility (well, someone’s got to and it might very well not be you)

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Well, there’s no way to sugar the pill: I am officially now a pensioner and after serving in Her Majesty’s Press for two months short of 44 ...
Sunday, 25 March 2018

Two milestones, a new child (though not mine) and some throwaway comments on ‘art’

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The next three weeks will mark certain milestones in my life. First of all, I shall be hanging up my eyeshade, pot of glue, em rule and th...