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    • Pilgrimage to Strachan – Part One
    • Pilgrimage to Strachan – Part Three
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    • Loco Motives
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    • Delay the Flight
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    • 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
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    • 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
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    • Rambles From The Waiting Room
    • More Tales From The Waiting Room
    • Inane Garden Ramble
  • Book Biographies
    • August Blogs – 2018
    • September Blogs 2018
  • Archived Blogs 2017
    • January Blogs 2017
      • Sutton Dressed As Lamb
    • December Blogs – 2017
      • Opera – Compositions, Conducting & Consumption
      • Business As Usual
      • 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
      • Masking Tape Madness
      • The One With Thingy In
    • June Blogs – 2017
      • To Vote Labour, Dial 0891….
      • The North Wind Shall Blow
      • A Tale of the Bleeding Obvious
      • My Musical Sibling
      • He’s Whistling That ‘One The Buses’ Theme Again, Mal!
    • July Blogs – 2017
      • Surreal Storyboards
      • No More Heroes
      • Pound Shops, Eaten by Lions & Cliff
      • Finally Facing Your Waterloo
      • Sunrise, Sunset
      • Name Tag Mysteries
      • Neither Borrower Or Blender Be
      • Mally’s Family Tree Euphoria
      • All The World’s A Stage
      • Dear Gary……
      • Clangers You Wanted To Drop
    • 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
      • Wordplay in West Yorkshire
      • Just You Wait ‘Enry ‘Iggins!
    • August Blogs – 2017
      • It’s Matrimony
      • Family History with Strings Attached
      • The Reunion
      • Tending The Fludles
      • Who’s Keeping Score?
      • Race Day Recollections
      • My Waiting Room Buddy
      • But Mark The Rustic, Haggis Fed
      • Ode to Season Moribund
      • Though Shalt Not Wear Leather Elbow Pads
      • Bargain Hunting
      • A Carriage Unfit For A Princess
      • Walk On The White Side
      • Taxi for Kaufman
      • Slings & Arrows
    • October Blogs – 2017
      • A Kick in the Orbs of Atrocity
      • Claiming Squatters Rights at Jimmys
      • After Dinner Cordiality
      • Quite A Day!
      • My Second Home
      • Combating The Silent Killer
      • Dedication Is What You Need
      • Black Skies Are The New Blue
      • But I Was In The Top One!
      • How Do You Solve A Problem Like…..
      • “Time for Bed!”…. Boing
      • A Trilby & Smoke Rings
      • Gentleman
      • Omnibus Journey To Arx Celebris Fontibus
      • Best Laid Plans of Mice & Men
      • Is That Really Chris Rea’s Cousin?
      • Eggcentric Visiting Gifts
      • Recognition for a Quarter of an Hour
      • Kindly Disregard This Letter
      • Two Soups & A Pot Noodle
      • Position Incurable
      • Scales of Injustice
      • “Keep Reading!”
      • Literary Distraction
      • “Get The Door Will Ya, Barb!”
      • Succumbing To Those Sad Eyes
      • Better Late Than Never
      • The Spanish Inquisition
      • The Phoenix?
      • Smarter Than The Average Berra
      • Paying Off The Builders
      • Calm Before The Storm
      • The Wrong Pans
      • Good Evening All
      • Does Exactly What It Says On The Tin
      • Jeepers Creepers
      • A Foggy Day In Washington Town
      • Say Ahhh……
      • ‘Appen
      • Dream Within A Dream
      • Strachan’s Sunday Spring Clean
      • Serenity in Stanley
      • City of City & United, United
      • The Wrath of Karma
      • Watching Sir Rog at the Low Fell Classic
      • Raising A Glass
      • Lexilogical Lessons in Leeds
      • Watch Out For That Candle, Ian!
      • What’s The Password?
      • Which St Michael’s Is It?
      • Knuckles Harrison’s Crombie
      • Mission Improbable
      • Peter Brown Called to Say…..
      • Mystery Solved 
      • Grey Skies, Nothing But Grey Skies
      • Ornaments That Take The Biscuit
      • Wagner’s Terrier Fan Rhapsody
      • Turning The Music Down
      • Loud Response to a Silent Auction Bid
      • The Hydrangea And Tonto
      • Less Salubrious Family Traditions
      • Where Are The Clowns?
      • Who Do You Think You Are Lad…. Stirling Moss?
      • 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
      • 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
      • 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…
      • 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
  • Archived Blogs – 2018
    • January Blogs – 2018
    • February Blogs – 2018
    • March Blogs – 2018
    • April Blogs – 2018
    • May Blogs – 2018
    • June Blogs – 2018
    • July Blogs – 2018
    • August Blogs – 2018
    • August Blogs – 2018
    • September Blogs 2018
    • September Blogs 2018
    • October Blogs – 2018
    • November Blogs – 2018
    • December Blogs 2018
  • Archived Blogs 2019
    • January Blogs – 2019
    • February Blogs 2019
    • March Blogs 2019
    • April Blogs 2019
  • May Blogs – 2019

January Blogs – 2018

Rendezvous With The Son & Heir

A…A…Achoo!!

Soliloquy From The Sofa

Alas Poor Yorick!…. He’s Done His Tibia, Boss!

Unreliable Tales From The Pavilion

Opera Without Soap

Smoking Like A Fish

After ‘Bat Outta Hell’, Take The Second Exit

Old Wives Tales – Discuss!

That Umpire’s Looking Peaky!

Philosophically Speaking

BACS To The Future

Avoiding Cliches Like The Plague

Planet Earth Is Blue

 

 

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