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
Tag Archives: hope
Hope, A Cruel Delusion
In 2019 England’s rugby team played an absolute blinder in the semi final of the rugby World Cup to beat the no. 1 side, New Zealand. I watched in front of a big screen at Twickenham barely daring to breathe, … Continue reading
A Georgian Trifle And Hope For The Future #curiousarchaeologist
Another rather splendid post from my brother to set our current problems in its historical context.
History Echoes #dadsprose #covid19 #1939
In 1939 my father was twelve; at the time war was declared he was staying with his uncle and aunt in Linton in Cambridgeshire, helping on the farms and enjoying a lot of freedom. It was, in his mind an … Continue reading
The University Years: Bristol University: A Doorway To Hope #memoir
In October 1975 I started my law degree at Bristol University. This was the most important phase of my life to date and as such the memories of those early days remain as vivid today as they were then. This … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol, Memoir, miscellany, university
Tagged beginnings, Bristol University, hope, Memoir
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Hope – a Story for Christmas
My Friend Gilly, Trifle Pudding in the comments to this blog though she has yet to break into blogging, sent me this picture from an old edition of Punch In the covering mail she writes: I wonder if you would … Continue reading
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