Writing tagged: ‘reminiscences’
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6 September 2020
Watching yachts, and a walk along the Anglesey coast.
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21 July 2020
Dad does some archaeology.
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1st January 2020
Kathleen Jamie, and Shetland memories.
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23 August 2019
A sad anniversary.
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20 July 2019
The fiftieth anniversary of the first moon-landing.
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23 June 2019
A topaz treasure, and suppressed claustrophobic memories.
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Grandma’s organ donation
On the mysterious arrival, and equally mysterious disappearance, of a Wurlitzer organ.
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Orion’s belt-buckle
In celebration of my adopted star.
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Keswick Woods
In which I return to a favourite childhood haunt after a gap of 40 years.
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Bacon and X
Not wishing to boast, but Richard Carter didn’t get C-minuses—and he certainly didn’t get SEE MEs.
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Life’s too short for pristine notebooks
How I eventually overcame my reluctance to write in my precious notebooks.
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The seahorse and the pelican
How a passage from W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn might give a clue to some family history.