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Author: Billy Mann

I'm originally from Liverpool and worked as a national magazine journalist for more than 30 years before suffering a stroke at age 53. I started blogging as part of a neuro-rehabilitation programme and wrote the very first entries with one finger of my disabled left hand. Later, art became another therapy for me at Headway East London's Submit To Love Studios. I write about my daily activities and encounters. In 1988, I married Jane. We are still together today, sharing our lives and making each other laugh.

Drabble: Springsteen album review

Aug 16, 2020Aug 17, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 3 Comments

Western Stars in 100 words

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Drabble: Face Down In The Pond

Aug 16, 2020Aug 18, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

A dirty laugh echoed in the "cauldron of death"

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Drabble: A Day Out In Broadstairs

Aug 15, 2020Aug 18, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

She said it was Midsomer-sur-Mer

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Drabble: A Book And A Bad Name

Aug 14, 2020Aug 25, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

He scoured the other pages. Why did he nick her precious word book?

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Art: Best laid plans…

Aug 13, 2020Aug 13, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 1 Comment

Prepping was never one of my great skills before my brain injury. Something must have happened...

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Art: Sam Jevon, In Colour And In Black and White

Aug 12, 2020Aug 12, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

Every week I get transported back to 1977. It happens briefly but powerfully, via email...

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Drabble: Small Pond Life

Aug 12, 2020Aug 18, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

Some of the fish got cut off, marooned in the small pond

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Art: A split-second with TikTok

Aug 12, 2020Apr 12, 2021 ~ Billy Mann ~ 2 Comments

It was a blink of several young people pulling up veg in a farmer's field

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Diary: 4-10 August

Aug 10, 2020Aug 12, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 7 Comments

Thankfully, Hotel Chocolat on Cannon Street was open to buy some emergency chocolates

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Artwork Archive: Earthslice

Aug 10, 2020Aug 10, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 3 Comments

It was meant to be suggestive of the geological diagrams we'd sketch in our school exercise books

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Snapshot: The Pond, Winnall Moors, Winchester

Aug 9, 2020Aug 9, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

The spectacle that greets you will live in the memory for a lifetime

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Flashback: The socialite and the spy writer’s mother

Aug 8, 2020Aug 8, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

Her husband ran off with Mrs Eve Fleming, mother of the James Bond author Ian Fleming

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Video: Winnall Moors, Winchester

Aug 7, 2020Aug 9, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

A chance encounter with Chris Packham or Clare Balding wouldn't be a wild surprise

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Word Wall: Nick Cave’s Into My Arms

Aug 6, 2020Aug 18, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 1 Comment

My diaries often contain incidental thoughts or things that flit in and out of my mind

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Drabble: Lulu

Aug 6, 2020Aug 18, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

She was convinced Lulu died because she lived on a diet of cheese and chocolate

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Drabble: Things Can Only Get Bitter

Aug 5, 2020Aug 18, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

In the middle of the night, guilt arrives with its haunting visage

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Diary: 1-3 August

Aug 4, 2020Aug 12, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 2 Comments

One of the huge terrapins was even out on a rock, sunbathing

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Artwork Archive: Razz Girls

Aug 4, 2020Aug 18, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

The three women have fallen into a sort of driving rugby maul

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Art: Population in pictures

Aug 3, 2020Aug 3, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 2 Comments

The two images are strikingly similar and yet very different

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Video: Barbican Conservatory

Aug 2, 2020Aug 2, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 4 Comments

These videos are partners to In pictures: Barbican Conservatory Colonel Kurtz has left the building... Wild swimming... No escape from paradise... Visit Barbican Conservatory...

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