October 14, 2018
When the children were small they liked to paint, and the simplest way to minimise the mess was to buy a large roll of paper and cover the entire dining table with it. Wherever paint was daubed it didn’t matter. They could dip and brush with gusto creating enormous brightly coloured murals until the discipline […]
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October 7, 2018
Trying to find a notebook with some space in it I come across a scribbled line which looks like a quote but, the more I stare at it, the more it feels like my own original thought, borne from experience. “The qualities which create love, stifle desire.” As successful romantic relationships require a balance of […]
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September 23, 2018
The people on the corner appear to be building a house in their garden. Initially, I thought they were just demolishing the garages but over the weeks more and more of the grass has given way to foundations. Walking the dogs with my sister I joke that I won’t be surprised to see the excavations […]
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September 16, 2018
On a short tour around the Kent and Sussex coast in the 1980’s my band and I hired a van and lugged our gear to venues booked by our hapless manager, “Fat Nick”. Fat Nick’s criteria for booking a gig was non-existent. If he could get us in, he did. A plan which proved terminally […]
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September 9, 2018
Back at school one of my daughter’s friends arrives with a striking new appearance. Teacher- ”Liv your hair is silver!” Liv – ”I know, I dyed it myself.” The nonchalance made me laugh out loud. Pulled up for a flagrant flouting of the school rules, in that momentary exchange between pupil and teacher, both are […]
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