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- Conversation, 1970s
- Blue car, black car, Big Star
- Pegasus trio, Orla’s Trio, Sandbank Shoals trio
- The putative Peppercorn
- Master Mustard makes a mess
- Young lady, don’t walk backwards!
- Pointer, PP, Vest
- Making sense of myth and music
- Segmented umbrellas
- Belle calls Blanche back
- Mrs Zebex in a hurry
- Conversation, 1990s
- Mini and Ultra
- Uninspired, stressed and tired
- Motley Maxi
- Of Ojays and others
- Doctors and tenants
- Embarrassing dinosaur
- Cheerful shopper
- Mustard and Wobbly
- Vinnie
- No sign of the District Nurse
- Cultural, medical, political
- Mystified by Mrs PP
- Blanche Pepper’s tantrum, Thomas Tanbrit’s tears
- In decline
- Fern, Ivory, Vista
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- Not a nightmare, not a rationalist
- Snow, shopping, trimming, potholes
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Tag Archives: 2018
One evening long ago…
Saturday 22 December 2018 This evening, it is sixty years since we moved in to the Old Man’s house. Episode 1 of Quatermass and the Pit was starting on BBC TV at 20:00, which is probably not long after we … Continue reading
The eleventh…
Mr Xerxes, my grandfather, fought on the Western Front in the First World War. In the late 1950s and the 1960s he would occasionally remind us all that the Armistice had taken effect on “the eleventh hour of the eleventh … Continue reading
Fake news?
On 21 August 1968, the armed forces of the Soviet Union and three of its Warsaw Pact allies invaded Czechoslovakia, putting an end to the “Prague Spring”. My uncle George, the second husband of the Old Man’s sister, was a … Continue reading
Jessica
Jessica Charlotte George 2011 — 2018 R.I.P.
