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Meeting Neddy
YOURS TRULY WITH HARRY SECOMBE, BOURNEMOUTH OCTOBER 1995A BRUSH WITH GREATNESS:SIR HARRY SECOMBEAs an unknown freelance in the autumn of 1995 I was commissioned by BBC Radio 4 to write a feature on The...
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OLD FASHIONED & TOO MUCH WORK
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CHASM
ChasmAll we can do is wonderOver what nefarious forceGouged that gap to wound the earthSo cheerlessly between us;An ecclesiastic excavation by your God?Deep, your carnivorous dark canyonWherein you...
View ArticleTrombone Shorty // Live in New Orleans // Full Concert
A BREAK FROM POLITICS, WORRY, TRUMP, THE WHOLE NINE YARDS ... 2 HOURS OF UPLIFTING FUNK FROM NEW ORLEANS.
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Hypernormalisation
HypernormalisationWe live in a strange, inexplicable world. Take this blog, for instance. Before the internet and the PC, those of us who sought to express something about our daily lives would have...
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WELCOME TO LIE-LIE LAND
WELCOME TO LIE-LIE LANDWriting something like this seems a waste of time. It is ‘preaching to the converted’. In the current dark and threatening atmosphere with its sinister, uncertain future, it...
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Walking the dog
Walking the DogThis was a short story entered for Amnesty International'sannual competition. It did very well in the top ten but of course, it didn't win.So what else is there to do but put it on line;...
View ArticleLeonard Cohen - Dance Me to the End Of Love
With Bowie and others leaving us, now the great Mr. Cohen, 2016 seems to be turning out to be the year decency, compassion, creative dialogue and hope have all been trashed. Best then to look back at...
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STOP THE WORLD
STOP THE WORLDto get off!In 1961 Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse launched a West End musical entitled Stop the World, I Want to Get Off. They got the title from a piece of graffiti on an East London...
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A MESSAGE TO MR. HUNT
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THE SAINTS GO MARCHING IN
Saints vs SuperstitionTake a good look up there, Donald - that's not where you'll be going ...It may not seem overtly superstitious but the way in which religion branches out in all manner of bizarre...
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That's Not All Right, Mama
That’s Not All Right, Mama.The sad story of Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup‘“Down in Tupelo, Mississippi, I used to hear old Arthur Crudup bang his box the way I do now and I said if I ever got to the place...
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Hands off Robin Hood!
HANDS OFF ROBIN HOODEvery now and then the controversy of Robin Hood’s home county is re-kindled like a forest fire between Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire. At the time of writing, it’s crackling away...
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The Man Who Feeds The Swans PART 1
The Man Who Feeds the Swans This is a long novel which I have been working on some years. I doubt whether anyone would publish this, yet I'd like to share the work with anyone interested enough to...
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Swans chapter 1
The Man Who Feeds the Swans Chapter 1:Munich, 1978 The Cog‘Life can only be understood backwards;But it must be lived forwards.’Sὄren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)Stadelheim Prison, MunichIn Germany they...
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Swans Chapter 2
THE MAN WHO FEEDS THE SWANS is an on-line novel project whereby a chapter of the work is downloaded every 2 days. To start at the beginning with the prologue, scroll down to July 3.Chapter...
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Swans Chapter 3
Chapter 3Munich: September 1929No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favourite.Friedrich SchillerThe scruffy woman in her shabby coat...
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The Man who Feeds The Swans is a novel, a chapter loaded onto this blog every 2 days.Chapter 4Munich: September 1929 “They hurry toward their destiny as though it would not wait. They push the rolling...
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