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A pint of Bitter please Buddy
I am aware that I am experiencing myself as increasingly bitter. Two evenings ago I vented my frustration and bitterness about Saskia’s parents. This I did in front of her cousins, Hilary and Jake, the latter someone who had been given great hospitality as a child, love and warmth, by Patrick and Diane, when his …
broken hips
A typical news item might read as follows: Today in a town somewhere a man deliberately drove a vehicle into a crowd of bystanders. Two people were injured and the man was arrested. This event is not thought to be terrorism related. There is a necessity to draw attention to the difference between an individual …
today’s lesson
So there are two important stories that I want to put down here. Maybe one day Jack and Lottie will read them and remember quite how many times I repeated these stories to them. So for years and years now our family has struggled to carry an emotional cauldron. The source of heat has been …
telling stories
So it appears that I tell stories. When my children ask me a question I say, if I’m in a good mood, do you want the short answer? The medium one or the proper one? And the good ones are always narratives. I get surprised when people point out to me that I’ve gone off …
Call
Well even walking right then to the supermarket Just when you shouldn’t of called but you have to and I don’t mind it’s a brutal cessation
stating the obvious…
Stating the obvious is what non-academics claim about a completed-explained academic position – position that as a compliment for it is obvious that is the nature of the act that it looks that way afterwards. What’s written above is the form in which I tried to remember this particular point. And the form of it …
Thanks to Ian Wisdom
Thanks to Ian Wilson! Living in the Dordogne through the 1980s and 1990s one of my close friends, now deceased, was Ian Wilson. I could of course fill pages speaking about him. Larger than life. Deserving of innumerable cliches besides that. However what springs to my mind today is something he said to me in …
Transone
A friend asked me today about engaging in supportive activity in the context of a transgender group here in Sheffield. Firstly, I said, my son doesn’t attend anymore. And then somewhat secondly, I said that I don’t engage with those issues in an understanding, Softly Softly manner. I understand it as rather like a wart …
Now
So, when in the past I asked some of my friends to let me record them telling stories I had in mind what we might call fairy stories, nursery stories. Something perhaps suitably rustic. When I went to sleep with them to record the stories comma because they were really keen on the idea. I …