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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.

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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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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