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: memories
Travel Challenge: A Reflection
Doing the travel challenge makes me appreciate, once again, my luck to be able to travel and see many wonderful places. My views don’t remain consistent and some changes to my favourites are inevitable. Back in April 2015, I did … Continue reading
Travel Challenge – The Results
You kindly followed me through ten days of travel pictures, guessing where each one might be. I thought I’d put you out of your collective miseries/make you punch the air with a ‘Yes, I was right’ with a follow up. … Continue reading
Posted in miscellany, travel
Tagged Dad's letters, memories, Palestine, South Beach Miami, travel
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France; It’s Part In My Downfall #memories #frenchlessons
all images are from my first time in France during a summer trip, 1976 with three friends Today’s headline is about the possibility that the Royal Navy will be empowered to board French fishing boats who stray into British territorial … Continue reading
Punch #dog #memory
Funny old world. I was with the Vet and the Pest Controller who were looking at a house they might buy and we passed a dog. A boxer. I’d fallen behind them – for some reason I’d felt the urge … Continue reading
The Insipid Traveller #holidays #travel
I’ve written about many holidays and travel and walking trips I’ve undertaken as an adult, to give a flavour of the places I’ve visited, what I’ve seen, how they’ve struck me and what I think about them. If I’m to … Continue reading
Posted in holidays, miscellany
Tagged Canterbury, Herne Bay, holidays, memories, Reculver
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Bowler Hatted #humour #memories
In the UK there has been a mild frisson of woke irritation ever since an ’eminent’ divorce lawyer banned cardigans on women as inappropriate attire in the office. They should look executive, like the president of a country. I have … Continue reading
Posted in humour, memories
Tagged bowler hats, dad, memories, office dress, train travel
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My Father’s Pride #memories #poetry #parachuteregiment
In June 1945 my father was 18. He wrote the letter below to my mother, his then girlfriend with momentous news. He had undertaken his first parachute jump preparatory to being admitted as a member of the Parachute Regiment. He … Continue reading
Posted in memories, miscellany
Tagged 1945, father, memories, Parachute regiment, Paratrooper, poem, poetry, WW2
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The University Years – Going Through The Cycles, part two #bristoluniversity #1975
I began my university life in 1975 at Bristol, studying law. Last time I wrote, I explored my commuting life and one reason why I shouldn’t have taken to cycling. This is the second example. Loosely it involves hubris and … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol, humour, memories, miscellany, university
Tagged Bristol, cycyling, humour, memories, university
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Glast-no-bury And The Musicography Of One Man #memories
A few days ago we handed our garden to the Vet to have her girlfriends round for a Glast-no-bury get together, the real festival having fallen foul of Covid. We made a teepee and a rustic bar from some old … Continue reading
Posted in memories, miscellany, music
Tagged family, Glastonbury, memories, music, the carpenters
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That Moment… #heatwave #flies #hotellife #1976 #deadfliesandsherrytrifle
It’s been incorrigibly hot here recently and the flies have been dying in their dozens, usually between the secondary glazing and the windows. How do they get it? I’ve never understood musca domestica and its penchant to peg out in … Continue reading
Posted in memories, miscellany, New Forest
Tagged 1976, Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle, flies, hotels, memories, student, work
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