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- From tiles to files
- Palindromes at Posh Town
- The prime of Miss Cash jr
- Lunch in the church hall
- “Lloyd George knew my father”?
- The real thing
- Snow here and there
- Lights on Twelfth Night
- Unexpected scooting, unexpected saving
- Nearly the last gasp?
- Winter ritual
- Addressee unknown
- Family and fraudsters
- This week? Last week?
- Homecoming
- Still with us?
- Legal exploitation
- Seven seven six six six
- Shocking blue, then blonde in black and pink
- Parent and child
- Tam
- Benjy
- Privileges of the prosperous
- At variance
- Cultural difference
- So much to do
- Unsettling changes
- People of Posh Town
- Fading into history
- Old and forgotten
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Tag Archives: 2015
Thomas Tanbrit tired and troubled
Friday 18 December 2015 Overnight, Miss Trimot’s car is parked by the uphill section of the Old Man’s front lawn. At 07:43, via the bathroom window, I see an orange glow at the horizon, to the right-hand side of the … Continue reading
Multiple encounter
Thursday 3 December 2015 As I approach the newsagent’s, a woman is just walking out of the shop. She is of indeterminate age (40?) and slim-to-medium build, with dyed blonde hair and some fake tan, wearing pale denims and a … Continue reading
Thomas Tanbrit taken to the toilet
Saturday 5 September 2015 There is rain overnight — the roadway is wet. I intended to set off for Cheerful Market by 09:00, but I have a longer lie-in than planned. Yesterday I left a trowel on the top of … Continue reading
A trace of moisture
Saturday 13 June 2015 In the small hours I am woken by the noise of the rain. There is no thunder. At 09:30 I can hear subdued birdsong, and it is not raining as hard. By about 12:00 there is … Continue reading
Tanbrit tattoo
Friday 12 June 2015 Mr Tanbrit crosses the street towards the Efords’ driveway, with Thomas’s left hand in his own right hand. There is a tattoo on the outer side of Mr Tanbrit’s right arm, below the shoulder. On the … Continue reading
Return of Grandma Vest
Wednesday 10 June 2015 During the afternoon school-run, Grandma Vest’s 61-registration black Plum is parked nose downhill alongside the Ports’ house. Mrs PP, and Mrs Vest outboard of her, ascend together from the school. Mrs Vest is wearing a salmon-pink … Continue reading
Blue car, black car, Big Star
Saturday 23 May 2015 I have a dream in which Suburbia Ventosa is at the centre of, or is the source of, the most important aspects of my life. At breakfast-time I realise that I haven’t seen Mr OS this … Continue reading
Pegasus trio, Orla’s Trio, Sandbank Shoals trio
Friday 22 May 2015 At 04:40 the sky is overcast. It is much the same at 06:53. Not long before 07:45, a boy is descending past the Efords’ driveway and then past the upper part of the school-house garden. I … Continue reading
The putative Peppercorn
Thursday 21 May 2015 In the early-morning school-run, I don’t see Mrs Vest or her children, but I do see Grandma Vest’s black Plum depart in the direction of George Street, from where it was parked alongside the Trimots’ house … Continue reading