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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.

In pictures: Barbican Conservatory

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

Lost in its wild vegetation and pondlife, you can easily dream of a better world

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Rant: Second spike will puncture presumptions

Aug 2, 2020Aug 2, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

Sympathy of poorly performing politicians is running out

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Diary: July 2020

Aug 2, 2020Aug 4, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 1 Comment

Includes: Gothic horror, a slip-up with the Nuclear Trigger, and a drunken duck on the loose

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Diary: 29-31 July

Aug 1, 2020Aug 2, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 1 Comment

Discarded face masks and rubber gloves will be neatly preserved as fossils in the geological record

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Drabble: Dog-collared

Aug 1, 2020Aug 18, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

It was the smell… the mothball stench of the clergy that got to him

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Blog review: My Life As A Piece Of String

Jul 31, 2020Jul 31, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

There is so much not to like about it, and yet...

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Art: my weekly appointment with failure

Jul 30, 2020Jul 30, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

The sessions have become an exercise in self-inflicted humiliation

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Drabble: He Tried To Act

Jul 30, 2020Aug 18, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

There he was, trying to look like he gave a toss about Casear

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Drabble: BME

Jul 29, 2020Aug 18, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 1 Comment

What kind of love did they share? What made them strong?

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Artwork Archive: Sharing in Deep Space

Jul 29, 2020Jul 29, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

It is a dark world occupied by words and icons

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Diary: 26-28 July

Jul 29, 2020Jul 29, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

'She pedalled furiously with a dead and rigid Lulu in her pannier'

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Video: The thread is my paint

Jul 28, 2020Jul 30, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 1 Comment

‘The mouth was wrong. The hair was, too, and the nose. Those ears are a disgrace’

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Artwork Archive: The Moon

Jul 27, 2020Jul 27, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

I thought Tony would enjoy the idea of an astronaut discovering a dog on the Moon having a crap

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Diary: 22-25 July

Jul 26, 2020Jul 26, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

'In the back of a cupboard we found an old Sony Discman, which still works perfectly'

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Masculinity & Me: A photography workshop

Jul 25, 2020Jul 26, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 1 Comment

'What does your photo say about you and your relationship to masculinity?'

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Diary: July 19-21

Jul 22, 2020Jul 23, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

'In Parsons Green we heard two sisters compare the number of marriage proposals they'd had'

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Picture: First Meal Out

Jul 21, 2020Jul 21, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

At the 'Sloaney Pony'

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Artwork Archive: Stephen Fry’s Ever Expanding Brain

Jul 20, 2020Jul 22, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

'His head seemed to be growing taller and taller'

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Diary: July 16-18

Jul 19, 2020Jul 21, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

'He is originally from Australia and anally incontinent in front of a camera'

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Diary: July 12-15

Jul 16, 2020Jul 16, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

'Rishi is greasing a comfortable path to Boris's job'

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