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Gary Strachan – "Write" Said Fred

Gary Strachan – "Write" Said Fred

Whimsical Blogs From Deep Within A Capricious Mind

  • Contact Email
  • Bloke Behind The Blogs
  • Gateshead Memories
  • Peacock Prose
  • Karen’s Story
  • Depression Confessions
  • MacMillan Monologues
  • Cricketing Yarns
  • Parody Gig/Show Reviews
  • Pilgrimage to Strachan – Trilogy
    • Pilgrimage to Strachan – Part One
    • Pilgrimage to Strachan – Part Three
    • Pilgrimage to Strachan – Part Two
  • Sonnets of Pretension
    • 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
  • Book Biographies
  • Archived Blogs
    • Archived Blogs 2019
      • January Blogs – 2019
      • March Blogs 2019
      • February Blogs 2019
      • April Blogs 2019
      • May Blogs – 2019
      • June Blogs -2019
      • July Blogs – 2019
      • August Blogs – 2019
    • 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
        • 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
      • September Blogs 2018
      • August Blogs – 2018
      • October Blogs – 2019
      • September Blogs – 2019
      • November Blogs – 2019
      • December Blogs – 2019
  • Strachan Clan Gathering – 2019
  • A Canadian Odyssey
    • January Blogs – 2020
    • February Blogs – 2020
    • March Blogs – 2020
    • April Blogs – 2020
    • May Blogs – 2020
    • June Blogs – 2020
    • July Blogs 2020
    • August Blogs – 2020
  • Book Re-Write
    • Primitive Art
    • The Corona Chronicles (Mar – Jun 2020)
    • The Corona Chronicles (July -Aug 2020)
  • The Coco Chronicles

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