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John S Alty replied to the topic March competition in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 5 months ago
Last day to get your entries in!
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RichardB posted an update 6 years, 5 months ago
My elder son – 40 this November – is a bit of a free spirit and so is his missus. Just before Christmas they announced that they were going to give up their jobs, sell up (not that they actually owned a house) and go off globetrotting. They weren’t to know, but they didn’t exactly pick the best time for that, with the result that they are now…[Read more]
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I hope they are managing to make the most of it. My sister and brother in law were stranded in the Galapagos and it was no fun at all. They got flown to mainland Ecuador last week and should be on their way back to Canada today, all being well.
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His verdict on the situation was, ‘It could be worse.’ Knowing his attitude to life, not to mention his fondness for sardonic humour in e-mails, I rather doubt that they’re suffering unduly.
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RichardB posted an update 6 years, 5 months ago
Okay, so there’s danger in crowds. So let’s escape from the crowded city and go to the seaside, or the country………where we will crowd out the beaches and the cafés and the ice-cream stands…
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That is what has happened here, Richard, and now the beaches and coastal paths are closed.
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WTF is so hard to understand about social distancing? It drives me bonkers to see how people behave. I have a very large personal space zone at the best of times, which is serving me well. I have become adept at managing my supermarket trolley to keep people at a distance.
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We’ve a very popular chippy in our harbour. It, and every other food place in the village had switched to take out/delivery only, which seemed doable for keeping them in business. But there were so many tourists day-tripping or holiday-house-visiting at the weekend that the chippy queue went down the street, meaning that they’ve had to take the…[Read more]
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This emergency really does seem to be bringing out the worst in people – and I don’t just mean stupidity. MrsB relayed to me today a news item she’d found on-line, to the effect that refuse collectors are reporting a 30% increase in food waste, some of it still in its packaging. To spell it out, this means that the bastard hoarders are not only…[Read more]
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John S Alty posted an update 6 years, 5 months ago
Don’t anyone worry about the monthly competition. Janette and Jane or anyone else, please don’t feel any pressure to participate. I understand.
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😀 I guess March is proving a little distracting. But I think a mini prompt might be just the thing for week one of homeschooling!
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John S Alty replied to the topic Good news this time – finally! in the forum Podium 6 years, 5 months ago
Well done, Janette, good luck with the book!
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Squidge posted an update in the group
CoronaMo 6 years, 5 months agoSounds fab, Raine. x
Am feeling overwhelmed today and looking for positive things, so this is great.
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Barny posted an update 6 years, 6 months ago
I’ve just donated to help keep the Den alive – go to the Donations group to help keep this place running
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Barny replied to the topic Short story in Barren magazine in the forum Podium 6 years, 6 months ago
Really good, Daeds – and IMO we could all go out and respond publicly to your and Kaz’s FB posts with words to recognise how good this story is. Fantastic.
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John S Alty replied to the topic The $2,000,000 Guitar in the forum Blogs 6 years, 6 months ago
Great story.
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RichardB replied to the topic The $2,000,000 Guitar in the forum Blogs 6 years, 6 months ago
God, the nostalgia. It’s all coming back to me…
A couple of little snippets from that Croydon club:
I was still at school and couldn’t afford to go there every week, so on weeks when lesser-known bands were billed I didn’t bother. Apparently I wasn’t the only one. One night the promoter got up on his hind legs at the beginning of the evening…[Read more]
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Squidge replied to the topic The $2,000,000 Guitar in the forum Blogs 6 years, 6 months ago
Blimey – and I think my son’s nuts for setting his sights on a bass that’s selling for £5K!
Mind you, he’s got one custom built bass, courtesy of Mr Squidge, and apparently he plans to build another custom ‘normal’ guitar this summer, so who knows what they’ll be worth in years to come…?
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RichardB started the topic The $2,000,000 Guitar in the forum Blogs 6 years, 6 months ago
$2,000,000? Who’d be crazy enough to pay that for a guitar? Kirk Hammett of Metallica, apparently. He did just that in 2016, so the story goes, for a fifty-seven-year-old Gibson Les Paul.
What possessed him, you may be thinking, to do such a thing?
Let’s start from the beginning.
In 1952, following the trend set by Fender, the Gibson Guitar…[Read more]
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John S Alty replied to the topic Short story in Barren magazine in the forum Podium 6 years, 6 months ago
Great story telling, Daeds, congratulations.
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Squidge replied to the topic Recent agent experience in the forum Blogs 6 years, 6 months ago
Coming to this late…but hugs to both Hil and Janette… Agents can be beetles at times, can’t they? Fill us full of hope and then dash us down. We are stronger than they think though – we get back up and live to fight another day, and keep writing, whatever they say.
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Squidge replied to the topic Short story in Barren magazine in the forum Podium 6 years, 6 months ago
Fab news, Daeds, x
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Squidge started the topic When your writing needs a retreat in the forum Blogs 6 years, 6 months ago
Hullo Denizens! Apologies I’ve not been visible recently; have had a few issues with logging in, and I’ve been working on Tildas 3 & 4. And I’ve been on retreat…
Remember Conker and Moira from the Cloud? They run writing retreats and I booked myself onto their Spring one last week, and have written three blogs about the experience. The first is…[Read more]
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RichardB replied to the topic Very Serious Consequences: Harrow and Wealdstone, 1952 in the forum Blogs 6 years, 6 months ago
Complacency and casual disregard for human life ain’t the half of it, sometimes.
I mentioned above that the Railways Inspectorate had a battle in the nineteenth century to get fail-safe brakes adopted. They were up against not only reluctance to spend money – the so-called automatic vacuum brake was more complicated (and therefore more e…[Read more]
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John S Alty replied to the topic Very Serious Consequences: Harrow and Wealdstone, 1952 in the forum Blogs 6 years, 6 months ago
Another interesting blog, Richard, thank you.
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RichardB started the topic Very Serious Consequences: Harrow and Wealdstone, 1952 in the forum Blogs 6 years, 6 months ago
We all make mistakes. Sometimes, if we’re lucky, we get away with it. Even if we don’t, sometimes the results aren’t too disastrous. But once in a while particularly unfortunate circumstances conspire to give a momentary error consequences that are catastrophic out of all proportion.
In the foggy early hours of Wednesday 8 October 1952 the…[Read more]
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Fascinating story, Richard. Like Athelstone I find it hard to believe that I’d never heard of this accident. I used to travel through Harrow & Wealdstone every day when I lived a bit further up the line.
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