Traffic Warden Hancock and the Union
Originally posted on Broadsides - A collection of bits and pieces: Traffic wardens can be rather grumpy sods. It’s a job that attracts the grumpy. In the early days, and it probably still is the...
View ArticleThe little sods from the !st Monchen Gladbach Scout Troop
Originally posted on Broadsides - A collection of bits and pieces: It must have been the summer of 1961. Certainly before the Beatles. The music that year was all Dean Martin and the Drifters, or itsy...
View ArticleToo Soon to Speculate: thoughts on Grenfell Tower Fire
Originally posted on kirstwrites: Sometimes you can watch the TV news unfold its daily horrors and let it just wash over you; at other times the sheer awfulness leaves you breathless, heartsick,...
View ArticleSpending time in a prison cell
This is part of a recollection of “Some things I’ve done that you probably haven’t.” This describes a time, in my past, long gone. It recounts details in the male gender only, because that is how it...
View ArticleTwittering Tales #119 – 15 January 2019
It’s time again, for Kat Myrman’s wonderful challenge, to write a story, inspired by her picture prompt, in 280 characters or fewer. Here is this week’s prompt and my contribution. Check out all the...
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