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Mindball
Today’s events triggered a memory. When I was a young TV director I worked on a show called Tomorrow’s World. You’ll be familiar with it if you grew up in the UK and are over forty I reckon. As a lot of my readers are not from the UK I shall describe it to you…
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‘All the Colours of the Dark’
There are things that are hard to articulate about this process of attempting to save one’s own life. The major one is the slip slide of reality. If you can be bothered to read on, this is going to be pretty trippy and you will probably abandon me, dear Reader, thinking I have slipped off…
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Can Creativity Save Us?
I have often wondered if I could survive without my creative endeavours. As a child I was constantly, restlessly making something. I remember my mother’s understandable reluctance when I would go to her asking if I could cut up some old dress of hers to make a bag or lavender pillows. I still regret cutting…
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Mission Impossible
It’s been a bad week so far. And it’s only Tuesday. Maybe the worst week since my diagnosis. I’m on my second trip to A&E in three days, coinciding unfortunately with my family being away. Last night, on my fourth day of extreme side effects from the drugs and persistent weakness, I felt more lost…
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All the Small Things
I’ve entered a quiet hole. Maybe the first time things have slowed down since the tornado hit as the new year began. Is it really nearly June? Where did the year ago? You’d think when you stop working that it is all lying down and Netflix but secondary cancer is like being caught in the…
Breathe 