Biography

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Feline Frustration

Feline Frustration How long have these humans known me? Why can’t they grasp the simple premise that I want something and it’s clear to me, so why...
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My New Family (IP)

I guess this piece is about my new beginning with my new family. It sounds very complicated and I was not a baby when it happened. I am Kayleigh. I...
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This Is Where The Story Starts

This Is Where The Story Starts As I am now in the twilight of my years and my autumn rapidly approaches my winter I have a vast expanse of...
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Zero Tolerance

Written as snow lay 6" deep in our garden and with the luxury of a log fire I cast my mind back over half a century to my childhood memories of being cold.
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An Angel's Wings

An Angel’s Wings Christmas always seems so full of angels. Christmas decorations, Christmas cards, Carols and much, much more. For some that’s where...
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Story of the week

Adam Hopkins September 1939 - November 2024

Sometimes, panic stops my breath. You’ve always been anxious, my wife says. To comfort me? Or is there a note of impatience? Anxious? Not me. Because...
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So farewell then Steven Wells

Steven (Seething) Wells, (or Swells), was a punk poet, turned journalist, turned comedy writer, turned author, turned cancer-diarist. He was a...
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So farewell then Smiley Culture

The first reggae album I every bought was Tongue in Cheek by Smiley Culture (real name David Victor Emmanuel). The first single from the album,...

So farewell then Simon Veness

The first in the gang to die. On 20 June 2002, Simon Veness, a 35 year old financial risk manager for the Saudi French Bank , was killed by an Al al-...

A hundred moments in autism - What about the Infadels?

I am at a writers group. One of the people at the group is a DJ on local radio and is preparing a show for later in the week. “Can anyone think of a...