of mice and maturing
1985 (Assume poetic licence with the precision of dates and details. The story has changed with fermentation in memory. The gist of the story is consistent with the orginal experience.) I...
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In 1985 I was sharing an upstairs rented room with another girl in a house shared with five other people. The stairwell was laced with buckets, pots and pans to catch the rain water from the leaky roof...
View ArticleLooky Likey #3: Cher
My favourite 6 ft blonde bar staff in the ‘sack of potatoes’ used to call me his favourite Cher. Cher after Sonny and before her substantial body resculpture. I suspect the nose, attitude and...
View Articlethe word is incompatible
I used to have Microsoft Office 2003 installed on Neverland. I haven’t yet bothered putting it in the cupboard because I don’t have the patience to wait for 7 years worth of updates to install. Many of...
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A clean village red phone box Flat Eric on a sunny day A family gathering to watch Top of The Pops (TOTP) all with freshly filled mugs of tea Like all these things, this song always makes me feel very...
View Articlecomfortably middle class
does that hurt? It’s not what I was expecting. When you open the door to a stranger they normally introduce themselves or ask if some named person is in the house. We held each other’s gaze while I...
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