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Craft: When needles must

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

I can’t say I'll miss this stitching project when it is finished

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Diary snapshot: Thursday at Uniqlo

Aug 22, 2020Aug 22, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

Smart staples. That sounds like a Milton Jones gag

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Drabble: Trust me, I’m a search engine

Aug 21, 2020Aug 23, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

Brian knew the engines were so clever they practically read your mind

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Diary snapshot: Thursday

Aug 21, 2020Aug 22, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

Colombia's civil war

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Drabble: Flight 370

Aug 20, 2020Aug 20, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 8 Comments

They broke the news to the families by sms, which was heartless

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Short Story: Terry Wogan Stole My Birthday

Aug 17, 2020Aug 18, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

‘I’d just reached a benchmark age, a moment never to be repeated. Double figures’

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Drabble: Face Down In The Pond

Aug 16, 2020Aug 18, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

A dirty laugh echoed in the "cauldron of death"

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Drabble: A Day Out In Broadstairs

Aug 15, 2020Aug 18, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

She said it was Midsomer-sur-Mer

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Art: Sam Jevon, In Colour And In Black and White

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

Every week I get transported back to 1977. It happens briefly but powerfully, via email...

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Art: A split-second with TikTok

Aug 12, 2020Apr 12, 2021 ~ Billy Mann ~ 2 Comments

It was a blink of several young people pulling up veg in a farmer's field

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Diary: 4-10 August

Aug 10, 2020Aug 12, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 7 Comments

Thankfully, Hotel Chocolat on Cannon Street was open to buy some emergency chocolates

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Artwork Archive: Earthslice

Aug 10, 2020Aug 10, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 3 Comments

It was meant to be suggestive of the geological diagrams we'd sketch in our school exercise books

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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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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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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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