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Category Archives: gone west
Endelienta – Amen to that
Times are definitely changing. Take a recent music concert in which I was expected to say, after a brief initiatory prayer, ‘amen’. The fact that I was in a church may have had something to do with the religious angle … Continue reading
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For Sonia
I can see her over 20 years ago when she will have been younger than I am now in a black one piece swimming costume, slender and erect. The waist of a model and the shoulders of an athlete … Continue reading
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Taking To The Hills – Malvern
The most significant change to my life since being dumped from The Sunday Times by a man with a name synonymous with lavatory cleaning is no longer automatically being shown the best room in the hotel. Nowadays I must … Continue reading
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A bigger SPLASH
The most important thing for Kim and I to remember today (November 5) is to empty the bath. It remains half full or thereabouts for much of the week and sometimes longer, depending on how infrequently either of us … Continue reading
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Ever been to south west London
…the riverbanks, avenues and playing fields, beat clubs and bars and clothes shops that were the architecture of my first twenty or so years; the first three in Manchester notwithstanding. An adolescence upon a stretch of Thames that winds south … Continue reading
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happy birthday
When winter’s gone and chills are scant, Our thoughts do turn to Polyphant. Therein amid a blaze of grandiflora blooms, A steadfast clock and sun drenched rooms, Each one radiant with wood and dust and webs and brass. Where … Continue reading
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It’s a dog’s life on Tregirls
The oceanic panarama at Tregirls’ changes all the time. This half mile stretch of sand from St.George’s Well to Harbour Cove, washed by the Atlantic and patterned with a patchwork imprint of thousands of webbed feet, changes from one hour … Continue reading
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Coronavirus – a September view from Padstow
Kim and I went blackberrying today to an evidently not-so-secret spot near Constantine Bay: our source heavily pre-picked by the look of the denuded brambles. It had been chilly when we left the house, passers-by in puffa jackets and woolly … Continue reading
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coronavirus – an April, May and June view from Padstow
June 12, 2020 With everyone and his dog claiming that ‘lockdown’ is somehow making us better more caring people with an enhanced sense of community is overlooking the bald fact that it’s also turning us into caricatures. Today Kim and … Continue reading
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coronavirus – a March view from Padstow
Monday March 30, 2020 A sign of the loneliness this death is bringing came to Dennis Road this morning. A loved, admired and respected member of the community Rosemary Brinham was take from her home, Wingfield House, in Dennis Lane, … Continue reading
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