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Diary Snapshot: Home working
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Category: WRITING
Diary: 1-7 September
Then someone said “lazy” home-workers should be forced back to their offices
Drabble: U2 not really all that bad
Then someone said U2 "romanticize the shiny side of an old coin"
Drabble: Rattle & Hum
When a Chinook loiters over Cripplegate, we all wonder...
Diary: August 2020
The month started with signs of post-Covid life emerging, and ended with sobering thoughts on what now lies ahead...
Backyard Holidays: Festival Gardens, St Paul’s, London
The original street plan shaped the gardens you see today
Backyard Holidays: Hoxton Street, London N1
It is an exotic place, an eccentric jumble of colour that never fails to reward
Diary Snapshot: Forgotten foodstuffs
Just add caperberries
Drabble: US gun sales leap by 94%
I wasn't sure she'd say yes, but I asked anyway. That Saturday we took our weapons and headed outta town. Separate cars. All through that freaky pandemic Summer we kept 2m apart, faces covered with bandanas like they said, and enjoyed the great outdoors of our beautiful state. They said it was a recommended recreational … Continue reading Drabble: US gun sales leap by 94%
Diary Snapshot: Fed Up With Flying
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Diary: 24-31 August
Everything went to pot when the kids stopped playing with yo-yos
Literary imposter stalks Liverpool
Well-read New Man in search of female company
Backyard holidays: Coober Pedy, South Australia
The joy of travel without moving (very much) One of my fridge magnets...
Drabble: Three songs, one story
Brian finally agreed he was in trouble when he started to believe Romeo, as Mark Knopfler reports, really did proposition Juliet with the words, "You and me, Babe, how about it? Further clues arrived. He'd grown obsessed by what Elton John saw in the Tiny Dancer's "pirate smile". And what Billy Joel sang when that … Continue reading Drabble: Three songs, one story
Short story: To Sir With Love
I had a black female friend aged eight, the same as me, and she was the only one in the school
Drabble: All Stories Are Lies
The story was real enough, a gem, but to tell it would be to lie
Short story: Agent Orange
Billy challenged his lockdown pen-pal Stuart to find a rhyme for the word orange...
Cat fed up with pathetic owners
They've been told by experts that house cats rarely stray far from home
Drabble: Heaven’s Door Knocker
He was a loner and she guessed Lockdown had been a bad time for them
Diary: 17-23 August
Masks litter the streets, the beaches and the seas
Billy's Scrapbook 