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Apr
17

POINCIANA

Poinciana, Your branches speak to me of love. Pale moon is casting shadows from above. He'd played the
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Apr
16

IF YOU HAD JUST THREE WORKS OF ART ...

The American author Richard Roud once claimed about Jean Renoir's 'La Regle du Jeu (1939) : "if
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Apr
14

DOUG - PART 3

A good friend/nemesis/teacher and mentor Doug Ashcroft died early last year and looking back on some of the
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Apr
13

THE OLD BLARNEY

“I learned my name. I rose up. I remembered it. Now I could tell my story. It was different from
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Apr
12

10/10 FILMS OF 21ST CENTURY

A friend recently shared with me a Hollywood Reporter article, 'The 50 Best Movies of the 21st Century So
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Apr
11

THE LONGEST TIME

Every time he thought he would end things with Renee, she would start up singing Billy Joel's '
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Apr
10

MY OWN PRIVATE MR MIYAGI

I have my own private Mr Miyagi. He lives in the garden shed at the bottom of my mind. Whenever
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Apr
09

THE PLACE WHERE LOST THINGS GO

"Where do we go when we die?" my late father would often ask me as I'd
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Apr
08

FROM MONSALVAT TO DERBY

So there I was yesterday morning, sitting in the courtyard of my local bar enjoying the sunshine on my face
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Apr
07

GOOD FRIDAY BLUES

Ralph had been down of late and he was still very much in hibernation mode both mentally and physically. Winter
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