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Love Story 6
I vowed to God I’d work hard and turn myself around and no longer look at the stuck-together catalogue pages even if they were just sitting there...
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Love Story 5
Her underactive imagination had me thinking for both of us. How we should behave since we kinda agreed not to get formally engaged until I could...
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Love Story 4.
I tearfully confided in Colin in a side room in the church, where we stacked extra chairs we never used. But God willing, might someday. I didn’t...
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Love Story 3
The furrows on my da’s forehead stood like stepping stones to his thoughts. The measured way he lowered the back paged of the Daily Record’s sports...
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Love Story 2
I wasn’t fully Baptised in the Spirit. Which to some church members meant I wasn’t baptised. Our prayer leader, Colin, spoke in tongues. So I was...
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handshaking etiquette was
Posted on Sun, 13 Oct 2024
handshaking etiquette was always a toughie and turned into handwringing techniques to master the truly awful. How we long for the simpler time when my da could punch the gaffer on a Friday and start a new job on the Monday. Not Linden. Fuck em....
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Bus Pass knows best. A sad
Posted on Wed, 16 Oct 2024
Bus Pass knows best. A sad but simple truth.
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I enjoyed reading the Outrun.
Posted on Sat, 12 Oct 2024
I enjoyed reading the Outrun. Now it's a film, I'd quite like to watch. I think we've all gotten into the house, just ahead of the wind and rain and thanked whatever god we didn't believe in.
Read full commentPosted in Who Needs Orkney Anyway
one of the lads..or lassies.
Posted on Fri, 11 Oct 2024
one of the lads..or lassies. Getting a gaffer's job was seen as moving up and moving out. A bit like getting married.
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I'd think Spellbound, which
Posted on Fri, 11 Oct 2024
I'd think Spellbound, which published Beastie, would consider it and would publish it. But you'd have to wait at least a year for publcation and perhaps longer. You'd face the same problem we all do. Writing the book is the easy part. Selling...
Read full commentPosted in Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - A day out
good health, indeed. And
Posted on Fri, 11 Oct 2024
good health, indeed. And great writing.
Read full commentPosted in Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - A day out
It's a wonderful take on
Posted on Fri, 11 Oct 2024
It's a wonderful take on something sad and happy at the same time.
Read full commentPosted in Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Mother's Day
reading is my main habit. I
Posted on Wed, 09 Oct 2024
reading is my main habit. I spend too much time reading to track it. But I'm aware of my excess.
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nothing much is perfect, but
Posted on Tue, 08 Oct 2024
nothing much is perfect, but if it means a lot it should be treated with lots of consideration.
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The Crow Road novel and TV
Posted on Mon, 07 Oct 2024
The Crow Road novel and TV series.
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