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Friday, 25 December 2020

Bah humbug (or something). And if you aren't happy with that, let me instead wish your all a Merry Christmas and a trouble-free and happy New Year

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Before I get on to the main bit of this post, here’s an ad for those intent on Old Blighty ‘seizing its destiny’ — I think that was the phra...
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Sunday, 22 November 2020

Well, hello there. Yes, I’m still around. Getting worried?

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One reason why I haven’t been posting here of late is that us that I’m trying to complete this Hemingway project sooner rather than later. M...
Tuesday, 27 October 2020

Mainly for Anonymous (but others are just as welcome as long as you wipe your feet on the way in and keep your hands off the spoons)

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This is appearing on my ‘private’ blog, but I gather it isn’t quite as private as I thought. So what they hell. This entry is specifically f...
Sunday, 18 October 2020

More or less just a placeholder (but with benefits — a piccy of morons with lethal rifles and less sense than a broken brick)

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I promised myself I would try to post here more regularly, but that was an empty pledge, the alternative word for ‘promise’ in newspaper cir...
Sunday, 13 September 2020

To be honest, I’m too knackered to try to think up some clever-clever ‘isn’t he such a smart cookie’ title, so this will have to do. If you’re really interested, you can regard it as a ‘companion piece’ to my ‘entry’ on art a few weeks ago. If you’re not really interested, what the hell, just read this anyway

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I was getting one with this Hemingway bollocks when I decided, for one reason or another to post it here as my latest blog entry. (Note to f...
Friday, 11 September 2020

I’m disappointed. When you tell a joke, it’s a bit of downer when no one laughs. OK, not a joke you know what you mean

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About 15 months ago, I came across a very useful website called Deadlines for Writers . And that’s exactly what it is: you are provided with...
Saturday, 5 September 2020

When, why, how and where (subs: please check) using a simile is always pretty pointless, rather like driving a red car with a tennis racket or eating a sausage in Latin or (cont. P94)

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No entry here for almost two months (well, seven weeks). Am I losing interest? Well, no, it’s just that pretty much all that’s been occurrin...
Friday, 17 July 2020

What is art? Quick, where's the bloody door!

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My ‘project’ is as interesting as ever — to me, at least — but it is lasting a lot longer than I anticipated. Certainly that has something t...
Tuesday, 23 June 2020

Meet me, the ‘hate criminal’ and ‘transphobic’ to boot. That I am not, never have and never shall be and loathe bigots is neither here nor there.

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As is the odd way of these things, I have — more or less — been accused of a ‘hate crime’. The situation is similar to when I posted a comme...
Saturday, 6 June 2020

‘Teflon Don will go on and on: How could Trump survive November’s election when he’s engulfed in riots, Covid meltdown and high unemployment?’ Well, here’s what one man thinks, and it’s worrying

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While in the US all the peaceful protest and demonstrations of the murder of George Floyd, the riots and looting by some, heavy-handed conta...