The Sincerest For Of Poetry
Apprenticed To My Mother
Walking Into Trouble
Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle
The Last Will Of Sven Andersen
Booms And Busts
Buster & Moo
Salisbury Square
My Father and Other Liars
Life In A Conversation
Life, in a Grain of Sand
Life In A Flash
Category Archives: Blogging
The Five Senses Of Blogging
My cousin in law Craig the Radio DJ is blind. Has been since birth. He also, like me, loves cricket. So every year we go, him soaking up the atmosphere while listening to the commentary. His enjoyment with one less … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, cricket, miscellany, thought, thought piece
Tagged blogging, cricket, senses, thought piece, Voice
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Doggin’ On #flashfiction
Odd word, dogging. At University dogging on meant hanging in there and showing resilience. These days there may be some hanging and resilience involved in the word but otherwise the relationship with al fresco exhibitionist copulation and how we used … Continue reading
And So To Bed…
To anyone who spends time here, I’ve decided that this August my daily blogging will become spasmodic. A change is as good as a rest they say. I’ll still do the odd prompt, I’m sure, and maybe the occasional review … Continue reading
Philosophically thinking #learnedfrommovies #THHGTTG
This post, from Sarah Brentyn, loped into my inbox today, a little bedraggled because my inbox was flooded and rather unannounced in truth. It is part of a blogathon, here offering a ‘things I learned from the movies’ meme and a … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Film, humour, miscellany
Tagged #learnedfrommovies, blogathon, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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F is for the French and the Foreign #atozchallenge
The English are a mongrel race; given London is not, by some distance, situated in the cradle of humanity in Africa and we British are still 2% neanderthal (and I can think of a few who top that percentage by … Continue reading
Honesty is the best policy?
I went to see ‘An Evening with David Sedaris’ on Sunday. For those who don’t know him, he’s an American, gay, Anglophile, litter hating, observational anecdotist cum raconteur. He’s also very funny. As I absorbed his thoughtful humour and sharp … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, humour, memories, miscellany
Tagged David Sedaris, honesty in writing, humour, observation
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Hypocrisy in a nutshell
Yesterday I posted about awards and in it I decried the statistics WordPress spews forth. But there is one statistic that stood out for me. My most popular post by views. It was my anniversary post, one year after I … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, family, miscellany
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Put Me On Pause
My blogging career has been going for just longer than one year in planetary time. I have this sense that, as with dogs who are counted in fractions of real years – I was taught one actual year is 7 … Continue reading
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