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Memoir

This sub-category of Articulations collects posts that are mostly or largely made up of memoirs from my life, or family stories

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Steel fabricating under the arches

15 September, 202214 September, 2022

One of my first jobs after graduating from university – I worked for a steel fabricating company under the arches near Leeds station.

Categories Articulations, Memoir
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A Sandstorm Summer Holiday – a memory from 1968

4 May, 20224 May, 2022

A Sandstorm Summer Holiday – not the best advert for Lytham St Annes, I’m afraid. This is an attempt to write autobiographical flash fiction.

Categories Articulations, Images, Memoir
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Return to Tema: the search for house and school

16 March, 2022

Part 2 of The Return to Tema, in which, in 2018, I search for the house I remember living in and the school I attended back in 1963 and 1964.

Categories Memoir, Stops and Stories
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Return to Tema: the motorway then and now

15 September, 20229 March, 2022

On the Accra-Tema Motorway: first part of a report on my return to Tema, Ghana, 50 years on from when I was there as a child in 1963-64.

Categories Memoir, Stops and Stories
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Skiing downhill, with or without an audience

24 November, 2021

Skiing downhill was never my strong suit – let’s face it, skiing was never my strong suit – but once upon a time I used to ski every winter.

Categories Memoir, Stops and Stories
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Shanks’s pony is getting tired

22 September, 2021

Shanks’s Pony is an old idiom for feet and walking. I’ve been having problems with my feet – they don’t like carrying me any more.

Categories Memoir, Stops and Stories
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Fire in the Bowl or Cinderella and the Flaming Deposit

28 July, 2021

Fire in the bowl, or Cinderella and the flaming deposit, a supposedly eco-friendly adventure from my recent holiday (though I have my doubts)

Categories Memoir, Stops and Stories
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A Dear John letter from my father

23 June, 2021

A writing prompt on the website of my writers’ group has me counterfeiting a letter my father might have written to me.

Categories Articulations, Memoir
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Beach Green bungalow – some of my earliest memories

21 April, 2021

The bungalow at Beach Green in Shoreham-by-Sea was the third place I lived, but the first place I have clear memories of.

Categories Articulations, Memoir
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Debbie Jimack, my grandmother: some more history

11 December, 20209 December, 2020

Debbie Jimack is the same Debbie Warwick of an earlier blog post, my grandmother. That earlier post lead discovery of more family history.

Categories Articulations, Memoir
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Most popular posts published in 2022

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Michael Rosen and Many Different Kinds of Love (January)
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Writing a wreath – adventures in poetry (February)
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Bruce and the Spider – writing resolutions in 2022 (January)
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Impressions from the SWF22 (August)
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Return to Tema: the search for house and school (March)

Most popular posts from earlier years

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Liminal places: on the threshold – a reading diary (2021)
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Thinking how to translate Jana Kippo (2021)
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Jamestown, Accra: walking through history with Collins and Lee (2020)
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Bringing up the Bodies from Wolf Hall (2020)
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Curse words we all use – but less often nowadays (2021)
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A couple of days in Maastricht (2016)
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