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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.

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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Artwork Archive: Can Isaac, Catalonia

Jul 16, 2020Jul 16, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 1 Comment

'...Where a dog barking is a main event'

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Creative Community Challenge, 15.7.20

Jul 15, 2020Jul 15, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 1 Comment

'The painting showed a tall brown tree trunk in a jungle of green'

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Diary: July 9-11

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

A group of giraffes is called a Tower

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Diary: July 5-8

Jul 9, 2020Jul 17, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

'Trump hysterically defines anyone he doesn't agree with as a raving commie'

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Lunchtime rant 8.7.20

Jul 8, 2020Jul 17, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 2 Comments

'They found a foot in autistic societies and now they're in charge'

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I don’t attend class, but I’m still a model student

Jul 7, 2020Jul 17, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 1 Comment

Blogging University: Bad Attendance

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Diary: July 1-4

Jul 5, 2020Jul 17, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 4 Comments

‘I wonder if Nick Cave has changed his mind about an interventionist God’

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Diary: June 2020

Jul 4, 2020Jul 3, 2021 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

‘Floyd died gasping for breath as the nation was in the grip of a pandemic that restricts respiration’

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Identify Your Audience

Jul 3, 2020Jul 17, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 1 Comment

Blogging University: Day 4

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Visit the neighbors

Jul 2, 2020Jul 17, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 2 Comments

Blogging University: Day 3

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