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: memoires
What I learnt from the Olympics: my top 11 lessons #olympics #11lessons
It is 10 years since London 2012, the best Olympics ever. I was lucky to work for both the Olympic Delivery Authority who built the venues and the infrastructure and the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games who ran … Continue reading
Chalk And Parenting #memories #apprenticedtomymother
I’m redecorating the kitchen and stuck behind a radiator there’s a scribble or something that might be some sort of childhood graffito. As with many small things, it triggered a memory. My mother’s approach to child rearing had overtones of … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, memoires, miscellany
Tagged apprenticed to my mother, Memoir, memories
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Skool Teekchers Wot Ay Haf Noan: part two – Maple Road Primary
My teachers at Primary school were a mixed bunch. I’ve described the first two that I recall yesterday. Mrs Pritchard, the starched and Mrs Taylor the philosophical. Today we will move on to Mrs Greening, the serene. Mrs Greening caused … Continue reading
Appraising #memories
I wrote what you see below two years ago and today someone asked me how I thought they were doing. We’re both volunteers and I was flummoxed. How on Earth was I meant to answer? I’ve lost the art of … Continue reading
Posted in humour, law, memoires, miscellany, work
Tagged appraisals, humour, memories, work
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Skool Teekchers Wot Ay Haf Noan: part one – Maple Road Primary
I have been taught by the timid, the tremendous, the tired and the terrible – quite a few of the latter in truth. The best weren’t necessarily either good teachers or knew their subject but they had character – some … Continue reading
Posted in home, humour, memoires, miscellany, School
Tagged Maple Road Primary, Memoir, School, teachers
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Cycling for beginners
Don’t be mislead by the image above; I was useless at repairing my bike but since it was the only method of escape from the less than splendid isolation of a New Forest cottage in my teenaged years I tinkered … Continue reading
Posted in family, memoires
Tagged Bicycle Repair man, bicycles, cycling, cycling proficiency, flash fiction, Maple Road, memoires, Monty Python, Sir Chris Hoy
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Dickhead tours – revisted #holidays
A while back I posted about my experiences as a holiday organiser and why it was not a complete success. As we enter the summer holiday season I thought I might return to the subject for those of you who … Continue reading
Avoiding Arrest #memoir #humour
I don’t think I have ever stalked anyone. Not consciously, though there was a fellow student at university who thought I was following her, which I was because I was hopelessly lost and thought, for reasons that are now very … Continue reading
crime and punishment #times past
I’m not good at receiving punishment. I don’t deserve it. Ever. That was my mindset as a child which allied to a visceral aversion to pain and a pathological need to be loved meant I did absolutely bloody everything to … Continue reading
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