Autobiography

The Fire Brigade

Unsung Heroes Firemen are of great courage, and of all emergency and dangerous professions fire fighting is noblest. They save lives while the others...
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Nihil Impossibile Erit Vobis

A wild rainy day spent with a grand bit of twentieth century Irish literature and a big box of teabags.
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Sutton Walls Hillfort

north of Hereford (26/2/25) … Bright day, though much wet mud… neglected important ancient hillfort …
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Sleeping Late

Oh how I hate to get up in the morning, oh how I love to remain in bed, the hardest thing of all is to hear the bugler call, You got'to get up, you...
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Story of the week

Kings Hall

The plastic bench creaks as they sit, arranging bags carefully to avoid the steam that puddles around the picture window. In the swimming pool their...
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Cultural Collision

I bumped into a different land and was blown away by a cultural collision, which I hope the reader will be too through my now hazy recollections of...
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The Mirror of Me

They only ever bumped into one another when they were alone; she always seemed to find them then. Neither resented their arrangement, just the...
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A hundred moments in autism - Buying a sofa

I needed a sofa, so went down the sofa store, pointed to the sofa I wanted and asked the assistant if I could have one. The salesman then went into...

A hundred moments in autism - Hiding my work away

I am working in a policy and public affairs role for a London based charity. I have done next week’s work, a detailed policy briefing needed for a...
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Il "Ponte Rotto"

More reminiscences.
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