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: war
To End All Wars? A Personal View
My father was born on the eleventh November. As a child that was Dad’s birthday; it contained nothing more resonant than that. At some point however, and I wouldn’t have been very old, I realised it was also Remembrance Day … Continue reading
Posted in family, memories, miscellany, WW1
Tagged memories, Military Medal, st Pol, the great war, thoughts, war, willi dyson, World War One
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A Little Bit Of Spring Romance
On the 23rd March 1952 my parents married in Twickenham. It had taken them eight years from their first date to reach that point. But their meeting has always struck me as the most romantic thing about them and as … Continue reading
Posted in family, miscellany
Tagged ATS, family, memories, Palestine, Parachute regiment, war
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Nanthology – The Final Journey
Nanowrimo is a compelling challenge to write 50,000 words during November: that’s an average of 1667 words per day. My plan is to write a set of 30 short stories each 1667 words long instead. Each story comes from a prompt, a lot from fellow … Continue reading
Posted in nanowrimo, nanthology
Tagged drama, Esther newton's writing challenge, family, history, NaNoWriMo, nanthology, war
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And Will We Remember Them?
I cannot help reflecting, following Remembrance Day yesterday, how we still seem incapable of learning lessons from the past. In the aftermath of the terrible events of WW1 the victors took their revenge on Germany. In doing so and in the … Continue reading
