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
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Skool Teekchers Wot Ay Haf Noan: part three – Maple Road Primary
My teachers at Primary school were a mixed bunch. I’ve described the first three over the last couple of days. Today we will end with Miss Hazel, the psychopathic and the one man, Mr Hole, the avuncular. Miss Hazel was … Continue reading
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
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
Sporting chances
When I was very young I was quite a round faced little fella, with no aptitude for sport whatsoever. At Maple Road Primary School, in Whyteleafe, Surrey, my abiding sporting memory is of standing alongside other unathletic specimens waiting for the football … Continue reading
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