To See Other Chapters Click Here Chapter 31 First Love First Love It’s hard to know which relationship I should consider to be my first love. Was it Jackie, when I was 7, or Sue when I was 10, or Jules when I was 16, or should I only count the more adult affairs in…
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To See Other Chapters Click Here Chapter 30 2020 June “Those days are gone forever” I was driving home today. The sun was bright and hot. I could feel it hard on my arm and face. My phone was set to random and started playing Don Henley’s “The Boys of Summer”. He sang of seeing…
Continue ReadingTo See Other Chapters Click Here Forward to Chapter 29 The Miracle in Our Eyes Today, the 23rd May, 2020, is the 3-year anniversary of my surgery for a burst appendix and subsequent sepsis. During my recovery, I became very aware of how little time might be left, and what I wanted to do…
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How to remember the Renraku in the IKF UK Kyokushinkai Syllabus 2020 Before reading this please either add me on Spotify and/or like My Facebook Page, or have a listen to some of my music using the player on the right. Renraku is a common Japanese word that means “contact”, “communication”, “correspondence”, or “connection”. Just…
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The Stunning Automation of ‘Dangerous Things’ from Simon M. Smith APRIL 9, 2020 AUGUST W. ZANDER The original article can be found at: https://indierockcafe.com/2020/04/album-review-the-stunning-automation-of-dangerous-things-from-simon-m-smith/ The future of music may already be here. That is – the automation of music. With the backlash lately against automation, algorithms and artificial intelligence, it would be understandable if music enthusiasts…
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How to remember the Kyokushinkai Karate Syllabus . . Are you a Kyokushin Karate practitioner? Are you struggling to remember which techniques go with which grade? This article aims to provide a few methods that might help you. Even if the syllabus has changed since writing this, or maybe your own branch of Kyokushinkai uses…
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The Things We Said You can watch the video just below Or listen on spotify by using this link: https://open.spotify.com/album/6gVLLW55CcEc9uJSrT2WZI About the song I belong to an arts club in London called The Chelsea Arts Club, and about 8 years ago I gave a couple I’d been chatting with there a lift home, and in…
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Mike Madden Interviews Simon Mark Smith for Expat Radio Hear the unabridged version with full length songs at https://www.mixcloud.com/AlexanderWor… or http://www.expatradio.uk/listen-again/ For further info about Alexander Wordsmith please go to http://michael-madden.co.uk/. Otherwise to hear the abridged version where the songs are cut short please click on the video below.
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Chapter 28 To see other chapters click here Filling the Void 2019 This page was blank a moment before I wrote on it, and before it was a blank page there was an empty space which it came to fill. In time, it will disappear, and there will be a space where it had been,…
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A few weeks ago I got an electric bill that was £1000 more than I expected, I have a few lodgers, but they have meters monitoring their areas and they showed no increase in electric consumption. The only area which doesn’t have a monitor on is my area in which there is a communal laundry…
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