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July 07, 2009 02:08 PM EDT --
Chapter One: The Gambolling Baby Boomer
Birth of a Rock and Roll Child
I was born Friday 7 October 1955 at the tail end of West London's Goldhawk Road and my first home . . .
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July 07, 2009 01:58 PM EDT --
Introduction
Tales from the Halling Valley 1 consists of the first six tales of the epic "Tales from the Halling Valley". They have virtually nothing to do with Norway's . . .
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May 13, 2009 08:12 PM EDT --
My mother the Canadian singer Ann Watt was born Angela Jean Watt to British-born parents in the city of Brandon, Manitoba. Her father an Irish builder from Castlederg in County Tyrone had been born . . .
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March 13, 2009 10:06 AM EDT --
Those Landmark Years
For two years I'd slavishly followed those artists who'd either predated Modernism or been part of its banquet years and beyond but in '76 a new decade, that of Brando, . . .
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March 12, 2009 09:07 AM EDT --
Sad Loves of a Seafaring Man
In late summer 1973 the minesweeper HMS Thames set out for Bordeaux in Gironde in the south west of France. It was my first voyage as an Ordinary Deckhand with the RNR . . .
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March 11, 2009 08:29 AM EDT --
Birth of a Rock'n'Roll Child
I was born Friday 7 October 1955 at the tail end of West London's Goldhawk Road and my first home was in Bulmer Place near Notting Hill Gate.
My brother was . . .
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March 10, 2008 04:06 PM EDT --
Introduction
"Gone the Way of Cain" consists of pieces from formerly published writings:
"First Night of the Dream" and "The End of the Century Young" were taken from . . .
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January 30, 2008 01:21 PM EST --
Introduction
"The Summer of Fittleton" consists of two previously published pieces in slightly modified form, these being "My Future Positively Glittered", now divided into two . . .
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January 21, 2008 04:47 AM EST --
Introduction
An early draft of "The Sweetness of Wrens" was published as "A Dandy in the Land of Blue Denim 2" at Blogster.com on the 21st of April 2006, since which time it's . . .
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January 05, 2008 06:35 AM EST --
Introduction
"Those Gambolling Baby Boomers", the first of a series of seventies-themed pieces, tells how I came to be conditioned by my environment in the early 1970s after leaving Pangbourne . . .
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December 08, 2007 01:21 PM EST --
Introduction:
These two pieces set the scene for the entire work to follow, a kind of experiment in memoir writing with a spiritual core. Both deal with my childhood in London in the 1960s. The first . . .
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December 05, 2007 10:20 AM EST --
Introduction
An initial draft of "Gilded Youth at the Guildhall School" was published at the Blogster.com website on the 1st of July 2006, since which time it's undergone considerable . . .
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November 14, 2007 10:07 AM EST --
Introduction
“A Final Distant Clarion Cry” consists of diverse unrelated writings which I painstakingly knitted together to make a suitably grand finale to my as yet untitled experiment . . .
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September 01, 2007 12:43 PM EDT --
Introduction
"Of All Sad Words of Tongue or Pen" debuted at the Blogster.com website on the 25th January 2007. It consisted of an introduction, the main body of the work, formerly untitled but . . .
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August 28, 2007 01:31 PM EDT --
A Surrey Idyll
1975 was the year I went back to school, or rather, Brooklands, a technical college secreted within the semi-rural beauty of Weybridge in the furthermost reaches of suburban south west . . .
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August 27, 2007 06:47 AM EDT --
Introduction
"Shreds of Nothingness" centres on my brief stay at Homerton, a teaching training college contained within the University of Cambridge, with its campus at Hills Road just outside . . .
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August 24, 2007 07:19 AM EDT --
Introduction
"The Twilight of an Actor" existed initially as nothing more than "Such a Short Space of Time", published at the Blogster.com website on the 19th of February 2006. However, . . .
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August 17, 2007 09:06 PM EDT --
A Westfield Narrative 1
"Ice Spoke of the Spells of Calm" is the second in a four-part series of writings inspired by my time at Westfield College. It has been fashioned out of modified versions . . .
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August 16, 2007 09:22 PM EDT --
Introduction
"West of the Fields Long Gone" has been composed of pieces from formerly published writings, including "Ice Spoke of the Spells of Calm", which was first published at . . .
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August 12, 2007 03:13 PM EDT --
Introduction
The following short story, the last in a series of pieces based on my sixties boyhood in west London, is not so much a story, as fragments taken from spidery writings with which I filled . . .
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