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Gary Strachan – "Write" Said Fred

Gary Strachan – "Write" Said Fred

Diary of light hearted fictional narratives

  • Peacock Prose
  • Bloke Behind The Blogs
  • Parody Gig/Show Reviews
  • Karen’s Story
  • Cricketing Yarns
  • Pilgrimage to Strachan – Trilogy
    • Pilgrimage to Strachan – Part One
    • Pilgrimage to Strachan – Part Three
    • Pilgrimage to Strachan – Part Two
  • Sonnets of Pretention
    • Sanctuaire de Kaleidoscopique
    • Rite of Passage
    • Plummeting
    • Delusions of Grandma
    • Loco Motives
    • Visions On Vine
    • Legacy
    • Paean World
    • Animals Aren’t We
    • Nowhere Man On The Hill
    • Delay the Flight
    • Job Judgemental
    • O’night Dream
    • The Only Outlet
    • Woodhouse Man
    • Prose From The Patio
    • Sour Sonnet to Carcinoma
    • Prose From The Patio
    • Utopia In Sock Tags
    • New Dawn at LS11?
    • Airing of Sale De Lavage
    • Biting The Hand That Nourishes
    • Flotsam & Jetsam
    • What Identity Crisis?
    • Part of the Reality Show
    • Service Levels Over Spirit Levels
    • Conversations Around The Coven
    • In Search O’ Four Holy Grails
    • Sonnet Spontaneous
    • Pomme Musique Memories
    • Cack Handed Poeme d’amour
    • Domain Dismal
    • Rhymes – Though Not For The Nursery
    • What Gives Aura & Aurai?
    • Nowhere Plans For Nobody
    • Random
    • Empty Cage
    • The Entitled Species
    • That’s Nice
    • Legacy of the Loathsome
    • Prose In Repose
    • And When They Were Up….
    • A Life in Caricature
    • Malice Revisited
    • Proud Legacy To Dolls
    • Vinyl Voyage
    • Options D’Indesirables
    • Cack Handed Poeme d’amour
    • Domain Dismal
    • Rhymes – Though Not For The Nursery
    • What Gives Aura & Aurai?
    • Where There’s A Will
    • Nowhere Plans For Nobody
  • Waiting Room Rambles
    • Rambles From The Waiting Room
    • More Tales From The Waiting Room
    • Inane Garden Ramble
  • Archived Blogs 2017
    • January Blogs 2017
      • Sutton Dressed As Lamb
    • December Blogs – 2017
      • Business As Usual
      • Opera – Compositions, Conducting & Consumption
      • Guess Who’s Coming For Dinner
      • A Case Of Mistaken Identity
      • Where Were You When?
      • In A State Of Veg Rotation
      • “You Catch More Honey With Flies!”
      • Spray Tan for Corbyn?
      • Chronicles From Around The Cauldron
      • Confusing The Chaffinches
      • Don’t Leave Me ‘arold!
      • French Fleece Philosophy
      • Roll On Spring
      • An Unexpected Rendevous
      • Mr Frears Had Sticky Out Ears
      • T-Shirt Clad Winter Tales
      • Now That’s What I Call Melancholic
      • Karen, Have You Recorded Truffles?
      • Paraskevidekatriaphobia
      • Sentiments of the Well Meaning
      • To My Mother, My Dog & Clowns
      • The Poor Man’s Alexa
      • Two Celtic Laments
      • Fighting The Hoarder Disorder
      • Is That David Attenborough, Gaz?
    • November Blogs – 2017
      • A Case In Point
    • February Blogs 2017
      • Lounge Loitering in Leeds
      • March Blogs 2017
      • A Diminishing Window Of Opportunity
      • I Was Watching Broadchurch
      • Mother’s Day Musings
      • 2 Years Old Today
      • Cushty
      • You Win Again
    • April Blogs 2017
      • Almonds Are A Girls Best Friend
      • Not That Stevie Wonder Tape Again, Gary!
      • A Pointless Prize
      • May Blogs – 2017
        • The One With Thingy In
        • To Vote Labour, Dial 0891….
        • A Tale of the Bleeding Obvious
        • He’s Whistling That ‘One The Buses’ Theme Again, Mal!
        • Surreal Storyboards
        • Pound Shops, Eaten by Lions & Cliff
        • Sunrise, Sunset
        • Neither Borrower Or Blender Be
        • All The World’s A Stage
        • Clangers You Wanted To Drop
        • Wordplay in West Yorkshire
        • Family History with Strings Attached
        • Race Day Recollections
        • Though Shalt Not Wear Leather Elbow Pads
        • Taxi for Kaufman
        • Claiming Squatters Rights at Jimmys
        • Combating The Silent Killer
        • How Do You Solve A Problem Like…..
        • Omnibus Journey To Arx Celebris Fontibus
        • Recognition for a Quarter of an Hour
        • Scales of Injustice
        • Succumbing To Those Sad Eyes
        • Smarter Than The Average Berra
        • Good Evening All
        • Say Ahhh……
        • Strachan’s Sunday Spring Clean
        • City of City & United, United
        • Watching Sir Rog at the Low Fell Classic
        • Lexilogical Lessons in Leeds
        • What’s The Password?
        • Knuckles Harrison’s Crombie
        • Peter Brown Called to Say…..
        • Grey Skies, Nothing But Grey Skies
        • Wagner’s Terrier Fan Rhapsody
        • Loud Response to a Silent Auction Bid
        • Less Salubrious Family Traditions
        • Who Do You Think You Are Lad…. Stirling Moss?
      • Masking Tape Madness
      • June Blogs – 2017
        • Shylock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
        • Losing Two Days on a Whisky Diet
        • The Consummate Showman
        • Chaste Paper & Beard Conundrums
        • Uncertainty On Surreal Street
        • The Day My Boy Was Born
        • Politics, Weather & the Poems of Fermal Undies
        • Tomorrow’s Big Decision
        • Voting By Ordeal
        • Inanity Fuelled Family Bonding
        • Political Uncertainty – The Gift That Just Keeps Giving!
        • Quite A Day!
        • A Breezy Birthday BBQ
        • A ‘Telling Off’ From Mater
        • “Get Bates On, Revie!”
        • The Forgettable Birthday Gift
        • Tales from ‘The Fell’ Scorebox – Part 1
        • Tales from ‘The Fell’ Scorebox – Part 2
        • GFCC Juniors – Class of ’80
        • Paternal Appreciation Day
        • Return To The Waiting Room
        • Sing Us A Song Piano Man
        • Reducing That Carbon Footprint
        • Have You Put The Irish Lottery On, Mags?
        • Solving A Conundrum
        • Ten Things You Didn’t Know
        • The Hat-Trick Hero
        • Food For Thought
        • Clickity Clack – Weatherman
        • Pretentious Prose
        • Hilda Chinwag
        • Arthur’s Pre-Op OCD
        • From Gelatin To The Grapevine
      • The North Wind Shall Blow
      • My Musical Sibling
      • July Blogs – 2017
        • Good Riddance June
        • Hello Stranger!
        • Sour Sonnet to Carcinoma
        • Prose From The Patio
        • Woodhouse Man
        • Uncle Sam’s 241st Birthday
        • A Race Against Time
        • The Only Outlet
        • The Waiting Game
        • O’night Dream
        • The Mysterious Glare
        • Job Judgemental
        • Better Call Hutz!
        • Delay the Flight
        • Carry On Pater
        • Nowhere Man On The Hill
        • The Only Outlet
        • The Waiting Game
        • O’night Dream
        • The Mysterious Glare
        • Job Judgemental
        • Better Call Hutz!
        • Delay the Flight
        • Job Judgemental
        • Carry On Pater
        • Nowhere Man On The Hill
        • You Can Go Now!
        • Animals Aren’t We
        • TTOTB
        • Paean World
        • Watching The Gee Gees
        • Legacy
        • Two Eras of Intrepid Explorers
        • Visions On Vine
        • Light At The Tunnel’s End?
        • Loco Motives
        • Pleading The Fifth In The Forth
        • Delusions of Grandma
        • One Small Step….
        • Plummeting
        • The Anchor’s Away, Hamish
        • Rite of Passage
        • New Outlet Sought
        • A Legen In His Own Lunchtime
        • Sanctuaire de Kaleidoscopique
        • Caught Between Baroque & Hard Place
        • New Dawn at LS11?
        • Much Awaited Homecoming
        • Utopia In Sock Tags
        • Blog 800 – Collective Thoughts
        • The Diminishing Bucket List
        • Glad To Have You Back
        • Pings Ain’t What They Used To Be
        • Biting The Hand That Nourishes
        • Small Steps to Recovery
        • Airing of Sale De Lavage
        • Small Redesign, Big Consequence
        • Flotsam & Jetsam
        • Booze Cruise
        • You Cannot Be Serious!
        • The Folly of Self-Diagnosis
        • What Identity Crisis?
        • Relationship Advice From Georgie B
        • Part of the Reality Show
        • Time For A Break?
        • Service Levels Over Spirit Levels
        • Painting the Town Incandescent Stewpot
        • Commentary Provided By…
      • No More Heroes
      • Finally Facing Your Waterloo
      • Name Tag Mysteries
      • Mally’s Family Tree Euphoria
      • Dear Gary……
      • September Blogs – 2017
        • Unlikely Televised Sports
        • Is It A Bird? Is It A Plane?
        • Cack Handed Poeme d’amour
        • Mazing On A Sunny Afternoon
        • Pub Dress Codes – 1980’s
        • Options D’Indesirables
        • Cupid Strikes In The Beaconsfield
        • Maggie’s Advice For Mrs Worthington
        • Vinyl Voyage
        • Respite In Spa Town
        • Just You Wait ‘Enry ‘Iggins!
        • It’s Matrimony
        • The Reunion
        • Who’s Keeping Score?
        • My Waiting Room Buddy
        • Ode to Season Moribund
        • Bargain Hunting
        • Walk On The White Side
        • Slings & Arrows
        • A Kick in the Orbs of Atrocity
        • After Dinner Cordiality
        • My Second Home
        • Dedication Is What You Need
        • But I Was In The Top One!
        • “Time for Bed!”…. Boing
        • Gentleman
        • Best Laid Plans of Mice & Men
        • Eggcentric Visiting Gifts
        • Kindly Disregard This Letter
        • Position Incurable
        • “Keep Reading!”
        • “Get The Door Will Ya, Barb!”
        • Better Late Than Never
        • The Phoenix?
        • Paying Off The Builders
        • The Wrong Pans
        • Does Exactly What It Says On The Tin
        • A Foggy Day In Washington Town
        • ‘Appen
      • August Blogs – 2017
        • Ramblings From The Park Bench
        • Conversations Around The Coven
        • My Bruvver
        • Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow?
        • In Search O’ Four Holy Grails
        • Pen On Pen
        • Sonnet Spontaneous
        • Which One’s Bodger?
        • Pomme Musique Memories
        • Seal Lions On A Shirt….
        • Proud Legacy To Dolls
        • Treading Father’s Footsteps
        • Malice Revisited
        • Lifestyle Tweaks
        • A Life in Caricature
        • Opus To My Offspring
        • Lunch Break Musings
        • Sojourn in the Fog
        • Charlie Says…..
        • Has Anyone Ever Told You…?
        • And When They Were Up….
        • Is That The Time?
        • Prose In Repose
        • Tick in the Box
        • Legacy of the Loathsome
        • Want That One!
        • That’s Nice
        • Summertime
        • The Entitled Species
        • The Cropping of Maggie’s Locks
        • Empty Cage
        • Didn’t He Do Well
      • Tending The Fludles
      • But Mark The Rustic, Haggis Fed
      • A Carriage Unfit For A Princess
      • October Blogs – 2017
      • Quite A Day!
      • Black Skies Are The New Blue
      • A Trilby & Smoke Rings
      • Is That Really Chris Rea’s Cousin?
      • Two Soups & A Pot Noodle
      • Literary Distraction
      • The Spanish Inquisition
      • Calm Before The Storm
      • Jeepers Creepers
      • Dream Within A Dream
      • Serenity in Stanley
      • The Wrath of Karma
      • Raising A Glass
      • Watch Out For That Candle, Ian!
      • Which St Michael’s Is It?
      • Mission Improbable
      • Mystery Solved 
      • Ornaments That Take The Biscuit
      • Turning The Music Down
      • The Hydrangea And Tonto
      • Where Are The Clowns?
      • The Reluctant Scribe
      • Ill Thought Out Drinking Games
      • Storm In A Soufflé Ramekin
      • Visions of Consciousness
      • “Tapas For Table Twelve!”
      • Well, You Have Got a Very Big Nose!
      • Scott and the Scot
      • Good Riddance BST 2017!
      • Ending Nikita’s Cuban Threat to Camelot
      • Seeking the Spark
      • A New Literary Challenge
      • A Slow News Day
      • The Fraught Train
      • iBobbing for Apples
      • Salle Des Declencheurs
      • An Easy Choice
      • His First Name Is Horatio!
      • Pancake Day Ponderings
      • Family Feasting In LS1
      • Why Are You Wearing Flippers Mally?
      • Sweet Dreams Aren’t Made of This
      • You Probably Think This Blog Is About You……
      • An Anything But Brief Encounter
      • Fe Fi Fo Fum…..
      • Mysteron Mistruths
      • Taking Precautions
      • Prudence Amongst The Primulas
      • Practical Gift For A 50 Year Old
      • The Girl With Kaleidoscope Eyes
      • Bonding In The Minster’s Shadow
      • You Have Mail
      • Lazying On A Slightly Overcast Afternoon
      • Blue Sky Thinking
      • “He Wants Bleedin’ Milkin’, The Fat Get!”
      • Reflections
      • You Say Braising, I Say Bracing
      • Solitude & All Its Friends
      • A Happuth Of Chips
      • A Secret Family Recipe
      • Political Corridors of Uncertainty
      • Unlimited Food For Thought
      • Carry On D’Campo
      • March, Spring Altogether
      • The Saviours Of Soul
      • Tired Out, Tired In
      • Judging A Book By Its Cover!
      • The Paradox of Trigger’s Broom
      • He’s A Poet, But Doesn’t Know It
      • Who’s Eric Then, Mal?
      • Who’s Eric Then, Mal?
      • Anecdotes During The Anthems
      • Wintertide at Roundhay
      • The Fallibility of Science
      • What Is Love?
      • Lumbar Pain Revisited
      • One I Prepared Earlier
      • Dr X Marks The Spot
      • Tea For Four & Four For Tea
      • Non-Quantitative Easing
      • You Named Me What?!
      • Give Peas A Chance
      • Tale As Old As Time
      • The Mystery Of The Drum Roll
      • Helps You Work, Rest & Play
      • A Landmark of Sorts
      • Desperately Seeking Creativity
      • They Seek Him Here……
      • The Apple of My Eye
      • It’s Good To Talk
      • A Bon Voyage Dinner
      • Stag Do in The Shadow of the Castle
      • No Message Taken
      • Magnanimous Mike
      • Howard’s Way
      • Joanie, Mindy & Ralph’s Freckles
      • Raising a Glass to St George
      • Inner Tranquillity in Outer Whitby
      • The Black Puddings Black Today, Mother!
      • Listeners Never Hear Any Good!
      • Pre-Minstrel Tension
      • Juggling Against The Odds
      • Climbing the Ladder
      • A Day of Abstinence
      • Are You Happy With Your Bins?
      • The Wild West Cup Final Replay
      • Essence of Norman Hunter
      • Never The Twain Shall Meet
      • Green Army
      • Just My Imagination
      • Just Ask Andy Dawson’s Barber!
      • The Taunting Blank Page
      • No Smoke Without Fire
      • Facial Hair Conundrums
      • All Fools Day
  • Archived Blogs – 2018
    • January Blogs – 2018
    • February Blogs – 2018
    • March Blogs – 2018
    • April Blogs – 2018
  • May Blogs – 2018
  • Book Biographies
May 24, 2018

Jock Lock & One Smoking Farrell

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May 22, 2018May 23, 2018

Hidden Secret?

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May 21, 2018

Why Aye Captain

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May 20, 2018May 20, 2018

Return of the Strach

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May 19, 2018

The Wrong ‘Un

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May 18, 2018May 18, 2018

Strachan’s Shopping Centre Slackness

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May 17, 2018May 18, 2018

Tuffy Hardcase & The Rhum Deal

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May 16, 2018

Missing Out On Minutiae?

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May 15, 2018

Going The Extra Mile

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