Ten Letters for swimmers – swimming the alphabet
Ten letters for swimmers. Iin a public swimmingpool swimmers tend to swim lengths as if they are cutting letters into the water.
Memoir
This sub-category of Articulations collects posts that are mostly or largely made up of memoirs from my life, or family stories
Birthday Blues
Birthday Blues: How I celebrated my 53rd birthday. Also about criminal behaviour in my family and about about the law of copyright.
Dad – remembering my father
Dad – remembering my father as I do every year in June around about the time of his birthday. His influence still hangs over me.
Disparate days in Leeds with Jonathan Kershaw
Disparate days as a student at Leeds with my housemate Jonathan Kershaw, bipolar (manic depressive) and certainly neither gay nor queer.
Learning to swim
In the baths today, swimming my 40 lengths, I was trying to remember learning to swim, but the memory’s lost somewhere in the chlorine haze.