Can you be trusted not to cheat?
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Diary June 14-16: Questions with no right answers
Can you be trusted not to cheat?
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.
June 7-13 Diary: London just ran out of compost
Camden Garden Centre's nifty safe-distancing etiquette is little consolation
Diary… The Black Lives Matter movement is moving opinion
'Floyd died gasping for breath as the nation was in the grip of a pandemic that restricts respiration'
Diary: May 2020
This month includes... A growing irritation with ‘Normal People’, bread that looks better than it tastes, and the Cummings-Johnson anarchy plan
Diary… We didn’t know who the celebrities were in ‘Celebrity Come Dine With Me’
‘Dawn had servants and a glass floor in her living room’
Memoir… My stroke story
‘I tried to stand, but fell back in the chair deflated, puzzled and detached…’
Artwork Archive… Caesar: my part in his downfall
'We were about three metres apart. Between us was Caesar's dead body'
Diary… ‘Gill is roaming London with a constipated puffin’
Augmented Reality offers crumbs of comfort...
Video: Cockapoo at centre of dramatic stitch up
Stitchwork project puts Alfie in the frame
Diary… Lockdown Lovers find sneaky ways to meet
'They synchronise their visits to supermarkets'
Picture… ‘The Dark Side of the Drift’
Commentary Instagram: @billyscraps
Diary: April 2020
Zoom traffic soars as Lockdown takes its toll
Diary… When the nation started to breathe easily
Clusters of anarchists ditch distancing in pursuit of self pleasure in the sunshine
Diary… When Auntie Val got locked in Milson’s cage
She was waiting for her hot date off Tinder to arrive...
Artwork Archive: Portrait of the artist
Creating a portrait of an artist friend demands a determination to be true to both your subject and to yourself, says Billy Mann.
Reflection: This time last year, the hot topic was ‘goose holes’
The garden at Penllech Farm has walls with small cavities cut into the stone
Diary… 19-25 April
‘She said her recovery from an ankle injury was going well. She could now put on her knickers without sitting on the bed’
Reflection: Some people call me an artist
Con artist, yes. Genuine artist, not really. I just make pictures, says Billy Mann.
Art in Isolation: Mona Lisa needlework
Nothing could have shocked Leonardo da Vinci, except maybe this...
Art in Isolation: April 18-23
Words in pictures from the past few days
Billy's Scrapbook 