Pre-Pentimento

Whatever comes to mind before I alter it with the overpaint of time. Mostly satire, poetry and fiction but occasional unreliable fact, as all facts seems to be today. From deepest Notting Hill. London.

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Showing posts with label Biography. Show all posts
Tuesday, 12 April 2011

Pear cider, Yuri Gagarin and flouting the law.

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To celebrate Yuri Gagarin bursting my birthday balloon all those years ago I am drinking a bottle of Magners pear cider. It is very fizzy. ...

Yuri Gagarin stole the limelight.

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April 12th 1961 was my 6th birthday. Yuri Gagarin orbited the World for the first time ever that day. I remember it well; he stole the show...
Thursday, 24 March 2011

The power of money or money bullies.

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My father was a difficult man. At times he was a good father if somewhat erratic. At other times he was a monster; a tyrant and a bully. H...
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Wednesday, 23 March 2011

A self-combusting father.

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One has not lived until one has seen ones father self combust. My own particular rite of passage of this variety occured in a Newmarket t...
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Monday, 11 August 2008

The Guggenheim and Warhol

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My memories are like motes of dust; occasionally they sparkle and when they do I must capture them and pin them down like formaldehyde stunn...
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