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No Toys For Christmas

Time to tell a Christmas story, because Christmas is a time for stories and every year I try […]

December 11, 2022 Christmas, Conspiracy, Kidults, stories

In Praise of Freeze Dried

They’ve bought one of those complicated coffee machines at my work. I’m still on my instant coffee. A […]

December 10, 2022 coffee

The real reason for going to the moon

I’ve written a few weird (and perhaps wonderful) stories over the years, all about going to the Moon. […]

September 1, 2022 Astronauts, Cheap flights, drifting, Moon, space travel

My Mind Wandered to Somewhere Real.

Ain’t written nothing for a long time. Ain’t felt like writing for a long time. Don’t wanna do […]

September 1, 2022 cheap hotels, depression, drifting, Hotels, Landscapes, Love story, Motoring, Poetry, Road trip, street photography, Time Travel, TRAVEL, Travel writing, Weather, writing

Is There Life On Mars(eille)?

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Not many sailors fighting in the dance hall, but there is certainly life in Marseille, France”s second city, […]

August 17, 2022 Beach, Bowie, Café, cheap hotels, Crime, Culture, drifting, Environment, France, Heritage, Landscapes, photography, Religion, Road trip, Saturday night, stories, street photography, summer, Travel writing, urban, Weather, writing

The Road To Normandy

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The first part of this summer story starts in 1981 Welcome to Normandy 1 We’re supposed to be […]

July 25, 2022 Beach, drifting, driving, France, French, Military, Provincial France, Road trip, stories, summer, Time Travel, Tourism, TRAVEL, writing

WHERE HAVE ALL THE BAD GUYS GONE? (reprise)

I posted the first version of this a couple of days back. I guess this is the final […]

June 17, 2022 Culture, depression, drifting, Edgelands, Environment, Ghosts, Hangover, Landscapes, Life, nostalgia, Road trip, Small town, Smoking, stories, summer, Time Travel, Weather, writing

THE KAMIKAZE CLOWNS OF SWALLOW SUMMER

An early summer hot harvest time. Machines out in the fields whirring up dust and bringing in the […]

June 17, 2022 aircraft, aviation, clowns, deepest france, Landscapes, Rural Life, stories, summer, Travel writing, Weather, writing

Why Dinosaurs Don’t Eat Lollipops

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This is the story of the dinosaur who couldn’t eat his lollipop. No more and possibly even less. […]

June 16, 2022 Food, Kids, kids' stories, Kidults, stories, Time Travel, Uncategorized, writing

Where have all the bad guys gone?

Been away a long time. Written nothing in ages. Here’s a kind of dry piece for our dried […]

June 14, 2022 Dream, Ghosts, nostalgia, summer, Time Travel, writing

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