Category: Auto-biographical
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Kentucky Fried God-in-a-Box (part 2)
Following popular appeal from my regular readers, (all three of you, Jimmy is on holiday) I am continuing the experiment. I tell myself: “Fools rush in, where angels fear… to be read. “ KENTUCKY FRIED GOD-IN-A-BOX (part 2) I try to wander through this vale of… of…. flowers, with a balanced, good humored, tolerant, and…
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Kentucky Fried God-in-a-Box (part 1)
KENTUCKY FRIED GOD-IN-A-BOX Part 1: The Butterfly Do you remember when you were at junior school? Wasn’t there always some kid who brought a prized possession to school, such as a spider in a box? Or a beetle? Or, maybe a butterfly? The latter, usually stone dead from fright anyway, was sometimes stuck through with…
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The Master’s Return
(I find it very interesting how differently people relate to the next story, and how they interpret it. This is a story I wrote a long time ago.It goes back to dark days, during a long, long hopelessly corrupt court case, which lasted for years, and about which I was trying to write a book.…
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The Modelmaker
(It’s always interested me how many people didn’t like the Modelmaker. He first appeared mixed in with the aviation stories in ‘Castles in the Sky’. Many were the folk who said it didn’t belong there. A prosperous young lady told me she felt the Modelmaker was a pompous ass, but added that ‘at least he…
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The Gogglebox
The next story, written a long while ago, whistles back over half a century in time. Before you read it, sit back, close your eyes, and ask yourself some questions. Then answer them honestly. 1) how many hours a week do YOU watch the telly? 2) how many hours a week do you read books?…
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The Knocking
(The next story is based on a remarkable dream I had. It is truthfully described, and has many elements of that peculiar symbolism, that dreams tend to be so full of. I enjoy symbolism as a literary concept, and of course the parables in the Bible are examples of some of the most successful symbolism.…
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Free Ice cream!
(this is another -true!- golden oldie, I wrote many years ago, about a summer job I had, driving an ice cream truck around Dublin…) FREE ICE CREAM! It went wrong of course, right from day one. Well, quicker than that even. I was only there twenty minutes or so, before I committed a classic clanger.…
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Meeting Mrs Bird
(this is an old -true!- story I wrote many years ago…) MEETING MRS BIRD I had to admit to my girlfriend that I had been putting it off. There was no point in denying it. She knew. I knew. But… I had GOOD reasons, I kept telling her. It would NOT work. I KNEW it…
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Floater Me
Fishermen waving like crazy; a small atoll lost in the Pacific; photo by me, from a Hughes 500 helicopter FLOATER ME I used to get this recurrent dream. I think I probably had it hundreds of times. It got to the stage where I know I would pretty well “groan in my dream “. A…
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The Murderer
Photo by S.Baker THE MURDERER