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Category Archives: Non-fictions

Caveat; or – Overheard in ASDA

Friday, May 9, 2014

“Nah, I didn’t slap ‘er… (I could of, though!)”

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Odd couplet

Friday, May 2, 2014

My parents said that onions went ‘with everything’ — but kept a separate chopping board for onions.

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1736 to Hampton Court – or; The Surrey mafia

Thursday, March 6, 2014

But are you happy to vote for Jason? … Are you happy to vote for Jason? … Are. you. going. to. put. your. hand. up. when. they. call. his. name!?

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Afghan IV

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

  for Frank Ledwidge, Lt Cmdr (Ret.), RNR I came. I saw. I concurred.

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On the ecstasy of finally getting Sky HD (with the FF, PAUSE, and RW options)

Sunday, December 23, 2012

FRASIER: ‘… and I’ve never felt more alive!’ [30x FF] sponsor’sdeodorantad(tagline=grammaticalerror)Channel4fillerhypsersentimentalfilmofIndianmagic realistnovel(youcantellfromtheColdplay)highstreetdrugstoreposhboyadolescentcomedian/AmazonLacoste mansprayoverpricedforeignchocolatewithpurposefully’cosmopolitan’misspellingmakeupArgos1/2Snickers (JoanCollinsnotMrT)supermarketArgos2/2peopleLovin’somethingVinceVaughanChristmasvehicle/C4plug deodorantagain [PLAY] FRASIER: ‘You can’t imagine the thrill I felt…’

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Advice, remembered

Friday, November 23, 2012

‘Never go back to a place where you were happy.’ They will not remember you there.

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Yesterday

Saturday, November 10, 2012

1200 Regimental Remembrance service, St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate 1315 Receive call-up papers (from Mother), Costa, Aldgate East

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23.10.12 – UPDATE (2)

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

1800 Home. Open new Iliad edition. Epigraph: ‘For Derek Walcott More Homeric kudos’

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23.10.12 – UPDATE (1)

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

1645 Pick up Derek Walcott’s Selected Poems in bookshop. p197 ‘the madman who tore Achille’s undershirt from one shoulder also tore at his heart.’ – FROM Omeros (1990)

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23.10.12

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

0930 Retweet Homeric ‘Rain of blood’ detail (courtesy unknown female) 1100 Rewrite Rupert Brooke one-liner, ref. Danish political TV series 1130 Post arrives, incl. new Johns Hopkins Iliad translation 1315 Stanford’s: 1 x scratch-off gold world map 1400 To barracks for Afghanistan mobilisation briefing

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