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alan20

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A Travel Ghost Story

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He'd booked a holiday cottage in South Kerry so there was a long drive ahead. No time for non-essential stops if he was to get there by nightfall. He drove fast but some of the roads were narrow and twisting. Still the SatNav (and I don't mean a... See More »

A Second Attempt : Part Three

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They found a comfortable couch in the lounge. Sea-view as if they hadn't had enough of that but can one ever? She was intrigued by his choice of drink; a pint of dry Breton cidre. "The stuff they serve in Britain as opposed to Britanny really is... See More »

Apart from possibly the first few sentences, this story which I hope to re-invent as I go along, is fictional.

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UNEXPLAINED :- Part One He arrived in London to start his college career. The scholarship grant covered little more than tuition fees. It was intended to be supplemented by parental contributions but following a year of increasingly hysterical rows... See More »

I Love Ghost Stories

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This is partly based on two incidents in the same area at night time when I was convinced a girl had run into the path of my car only to find there was no girl, but later found out a girl had committed suicide there some years before by jumping in... See More »

A Second Attempt : Part Five

He awoke early. Slipped out of bed as quietly as possible so as not to awaken the sleeping beauty. A quick shower. She was ready to take his place as he emerged which she did after an exchange of kisses. He found two dressing gowns. Over breakfast... See More »

Has anyone ever heard of a haar?

It's a freezing fog that comes in from the sea like a white wall. and blanks out everything making it next to impossible to see. The temperature drops dramatically, I'm sure I've experienced it in both Cornwall and Jersey. In the latter case the... See More »

A Second Attempt : Part One

The Channel Isle of Jersey is a very pleasant place for a holiday ; punching well above its size for walks of all kinds, flowers everywhere, spectacular cliff scenery, interesting sights such as an interesting ancient mill driven by a large wooden... See More »

Reflection

Twilight. The end of the day so much more calming than the end of life. With the former one can still enjoy the moonlight and countless stars twinkling, and of course rebirth with the morning. With the latter maybe the jury is still out, but this is... See More »

Have you noticed how keen some countries are to commemorate wars with other countries but are reluctant to talk about civil war?

I'm thinking especially about Spain and Ireland. At least in the former it was a clash of ideologies to some extent, but I've never understood the Irish one. As soon as they got rid of the common enemy they turned on each other. My reading of it is... See More »

A Summer Idyll

Mid-June and an untypical heatwave. He felt wistful as he drove amidst the very green fields of the gently sloping Sperrin foothills. As a boy he'd often gazed at these through a school bus window, wishing he could be rolling down them rather than... See More »

Listening to Wagner's Das Rheingold.

The modern equivalent is the nuclear bomb; the thing that makes inadequate despots think they have total power over humanity if they control it. Their power is limited to ending the human race without anything creative or positive. So was Wagner "a... See More »

Contradictions within oneself is part of the fun of life. Would you agree?

A new norm in British politics ?

You do whatever will buy you votes. Whenever it cannot be undone as in Brexit, you apologise for damage it has done to relations with neighbours claiming you didn't foresee the results and all is forgiven.

What's the longest you've walked at a single go?

Were you a pleasant, agreeable child?

I definitely wasn't. I was constantly pestered to play something light for people who couldn't tell their Arne from their Elgar, so I'd treat them to Scriabin's greatest hits. At least it stopped them from saying "Oh, he's another Liberace".

Living in a new Gilbert and Sullivan operetta

No regional government , thanks to the Brexiteers. Politicians on full pay don't need to work. Civil Service seems to exist mainly to provide employment and coffee breaks for its employees. Health waiting lists the worst in the UK and droves of... See More »

On the one hand we're told that energy companies have made billions from the present crisis. On the other that the government will have to borrow

billions to compensate them for cutting their prices. I don't understand. Aspiration has become the "in" word. Should it not be exploitation?

Pointless Existence

Does anyone else feel they've wasted their life? It's just gone by.

Music while you walk.

When I had a long walk ahead of me which I felt would never end, I used to play in my mind something like the March from Prokofiev's Love of Three Oranges and march in time. Sometimes I'd notice people staring at me and realise I'd started conducting... See More »

Nostalgia seems to come in waves which can ebb as well as flow.

Would you agree?

How are you coping mentally with lockdown?

Sometimes I feel its like being locked up - in solitary confinement. Like a condemned person waiting to die, not knowing which morning is the last. One needs the hope of escape, even if its only an illusion. A glimmer of light on a dark night... See More »

Group identification

I've always had a problem about identifying with groups; whether it be race, nationality, political party, religion, support for a particlar sport team.......Anyone got any thoughts on this?

Better than a drug

I got home from school, feeling completely demoralised and broken. I put on Tchaikovsky's 1st. Piano Concerto. Within minutes I was on top of the world. Here was someone who understood defiance and triumph.

I Enjoy Watching Waves Crash Onto the Beach

Destination : Jersey (Channel Isles); a walker's paradise. Object - to forget (a woman); not a swinger's paradise! First night, determined to get drunk. "Is this seat free?". She's pretty, as long as she doesn't expect conversation. He was an... See More »

Should many drugs be legalised?

The amount of violence by drug gangs in Ireland has reached alarming proportions and police seem unable to do much about it. I wonder if legalising at least the less harmful drugs would reduce the killing.

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