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Fishcakes my Grandmother made

18 May, 2022

Rising to a challenge posed by WeAreEurope, I try to recreate the childhood food — “salmon cutlets” — that my grandmother used to make.

Categories Stops and Stories
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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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Flying to Accra – in 1964 and 2018

2 August, 20208 July, 2020

Flying to Accra. This post continues my account of our my trip with Mrs SC to Ghana for my 60th birthday, This week’s post is about getting there.

Categories Memoir, Stops and Stories
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Ghana memories – an introduction

3 August, 202027 May, 2020

Ghana memories: an introduction to a forthcoming series of posts at Stops and Stories about my trip to visit Ghana again after 54 years.

Categories Stops and Stories
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Flanders fields, poppies and iconography

4 October, 202114 November, 2018

Of Flanders fields, poppies and iconography – something of a ramble, something of a rant and all inspired by the recent Armistice memorial events.

Categories Articulations, Memoir

A barber’s shop quartet: Malik, Rahim, Antonio and Reg

22 October, 202119 September, 2018

Sitting in the barber’s chair can be a meditative experience, my mind wanders back to revisit some of the barbers I have known.

Categories Articulations, Memoir
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Somebody faraway nearby that I used to know

1 October, 202117 September, 2018

A book review of The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit and Somebody That I Used to Know by Wendy Mitchell, two books read in parallel.

Categories At the Quill, Book Review, Reviews
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The worst journey in the world (redux)

22 October, 202112 September, 2018

What is the worst journey you have ever made? Recent events, public and private, have me remembering my own worst journey and the concept of a bad journey.

Categories Memoir, Stops and Stories
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Six decades of a date – the thirtieth of July

22 August, 201830 July, 2018

The six decades between 1958 and 2018 – today is my 60th birthday and I’m sharing snapshots of my life from the last six decades.

Categories Articulations, Memoir
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Wounds and scar tissue

13 September, 201930 November, 2016

This week, wounds and scar tissue. Not one of my usual efforts, though it is a kind of a Stop and a kind of a Story. I want to give some explanation of why I’ve not been enthusiastically blogging the last few weeks. It all starts with my birth…

Categories Articulations, Illustration, Images, Memoir, Stops and Stories
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Childhood, the latest edition of The Poet magazine, includes two of my poems
Far Flung: An anthology of stories, articles and poems - published in November 2020 - includes two of my short stories and a poem.

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