Category: Personal history
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Three Sex Pistols with Frank Carter – O2 Forum Kentish Town, 26 September 2024
I bought “Never Mind the Bollocks” on the day it came out and played it again and again. Damn, they cut it loud. It spoke to my desires and frustrations, to my energy and my ambition. It was the record I needed in that part of my life.
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The worst holiday
Mike Smith and Sarah Green were asked what they had said in the seconds when they thought they might be about to die. Mike Smith replied that he had said “I love you,” I’m afraid I doubt that. I’ve tested it under laboratory conditions.
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The Image Comes In
Debbie removed her glasses, and I had a clearer view of her face. Kind, open, humorous, gentle, soft. Beautiful.
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Going deaf slowly
How much of the rest of my life would I spend allowing my vanity to ruin conversations with loved ones, when help might be at hand?
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“the Morbids”
When I was seven I woke up one winter’s night in tears because we weren’t on a camping holiday.
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The umbrella
It seemed Deloitte Haskins + Sells could no longer overlook my technical differences with, er, the examiners…
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Devinylisation
They were now tainted with a vague guilt, like distant elderly relatives I didn’t visit very often…
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Betty’s last wiggle
“Nothing bad will happen to me, she seemed to be saying, now that Mum and Dad are here.” Warning: concerns the death of a dog.
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Votes for Members
Imagine what the press would make of such behaviour in a trade union strike ballot.
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The worst thing about Debbie
Now I’m not comparing this to the Dreyfus affair or the Birmingham Six, but I do think…
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Medal Going Home
…I was left with the impression that the government had regarded the recipients not as individuals but as a homogeneous, expendable mass.
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