Autobiography

Riddles

In 1984 Nick Kershaw’s The Riddle was in the charts - a mysterious, catchy song full of apparently profound but entirely nonsensical lyrics. It...
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That's Life ( Pt 1 ) Leaving: This is for Di

Dear Diary...life can never prepare you for the black clouds that can gather, leaving you feeling sad and alone, where no one understand the...
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All's Well That Ends Well

I suppose you could say my life was like a fairytale back in 1983. In a place far away in the past, I'd just had my baby, but found myself in a...
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What a lunch-spot!

Walked out of Presteigne along Clatterbrook (but it was empty! Plenty of room there for water, and bridges over, but apparently it is seasonal, and...
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Barbers protect men’s egos, hairdressers threaten them.

A few months ago, I went to a hairdresser’s and was treated like royalty. Before I’d even sat down, I was offered a drink - coffee, sparkling water,...

Scary Event

Dear diary, it was the evening of Wednesday 24th September 2025. I was stood in the bathroom cleaning my teeth, when all of a sudden there was an...
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The jewellery box

The jewellery box was my gateway. When I lifted its clasp, the music — Für Elise, but thinned and sharpened by the tiny pins and teeth of the...
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The Coffee Table

When I was twenty, I worked in Oliver Bonas on Kensington Church Street, directly under Anna Bonas herself. The stock never impressed me — torpedo...
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Fusion! Music For Body And Mind

Feelings connect on this day, have meaning in realities of life. There's albums many that clear understanding; drifting in and out on each note...
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Another Station story!

Taking my son to a composers’ concert, in London, ran late. On the underground, need to change: Hurry to the door, I jump out, but son fails …
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