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Tuesday, 30 November 2021

Volume three of a fab, fab, fab collection of my stories now available in print — good Lord and just in time for Christmas! Apparently, the Queen has already ordered 50 copies to be distributed as festive gifts at Buck House, London. Oh, and beware shysters — there’s a lot of them about and apparently double-vaccines, boosters, voodoo cockerels and mouthing MAGA bullshit is not protection at all against them. You were warned

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Just published — on Amazon KDP, so sadly no bona fide commercial publisher involved yet (and a very wistful ‘yet’ at that) — my third collec...
Saturday, 20 November 2021

More stories and poems (if you are interested)

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More poems (bottom two rows are the latest) here and more stories (the bottom two rows).
Tuesday, 16 November 2021

Is it just an old codger resorting to type, or are things perhaps getting a little hairy? I hope it’s the former. I fear it might be the latter. But never mind, at least the free West is getting its beauty sleep

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It’s almost a commonplace that was we grow older and are usually less adaptable to change, we become more reactionary. Perhaps. There is som...
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Tuesday, 12 October 2021

Talk of bloody long hauls! But now got this more or less last part done. Might even qualify for some kind of compensation. Keep your fingers crossed

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I’ve finally finished a pretty long entry for the Hemingway bollocks which I hope will be the last such long piece. Still to come are a coup...
Sunday, 10 October 2021

Tripette to The Netherlands (which is very, very close)

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Afternoon out at a town in the north of the Netherlands called Appingedam. Can’t really call it a ‘day out’ because it is close by, less tha...
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Saturday, 9 October 2021

Good morning on this Sunny day in the far north-west of Germany, a clog's throw from the Dutch border

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A few photos taken about 30 minutes ago (and which I’ve also posted on Facebook with the caption ‘This morning’s sun, 今天早上的太陽 in Chinese (it...
Wednesday, 29 September 2021

Hemingway bollocks: the end if in sight

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I'm glad to report that I'm slowly getting to the end of the Hemingway bollocks . This last essay (last, I think and hope) is in som...
Saturday, 18 September 2021

A blog entry of songs I like (by others) is resurrected after I realised several had visited it but the songs could not be played, and now a few more songs, notably three versions of the same, great song (but not a version by the late Mr L Cohen of Quebec who co-wrote it)

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I happened to be looking through the stats for the ‘ere blog and which posts had been recently viewed and came across one, post on August 23...
Friday, 10 September 2021

Two more short stories if you are interested (and a word from my probation officer who otherwise so rarely gets a mention here . . . )

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Two more stories if you are interested, as usual ones submitted to Deadlines For Writers . You can read those stories here: Fathers And Sons...
Sunday, 5 September 2021

Here's a song you might like . . .

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Completed track this afternoon (which makes it sounds it’s been weeks in the making — it hasn’t, just an hour or two here and there over thr...