As a navy brat, born 25 years after the end of WW2, my playground consisted of gun emplacements, pillboxes, mysteriously short narrow guage tracks which petered into undergrowth; large swaiths of concrete and other debris that littered the south coast. I remember vividly one weekend, there was a cycling race, and we were at a […]
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Sweet Sixteen 21/1
posted by MoreThanACat
At sixteen I was so full of doing my O levels, of getting my exams, that I don’t think I had time to think what I wanted my life to be. On reflection, I wonder if part of that is the consequence of being a navy brat. Of always moving, never being in the same […]
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32 Flavours 10/1
posted by MoreThanACat
Short post from me on this one. Favourite flavour: cheese and onion crisps in a crisp sandwich. Nuff said.
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A Line In The Sand
One of my characters in Widowhood of Spiders (book 2 of Symington’s adventures) is angry. So angry in fact he is in danger of breaking the unwritten code of the criminal world: twice. Not only is he in the process of killing a policeman; he is doing it in front of witnesses – not bound […]
Engineering Rows
This week I’ve been doing a lot of thinking rather than a lot of writing. Being stuck in traffic is like that. And I’ve been thinking about my victim. Well one of them. A chap by the name of Sir Martin Hamblebee. In my head he’s a nasty piece of work. A bully. A pompous […]
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