Monthly Archives: January 2021

Wasting good time

Eric Burdon and the Animals were a favourite of my father. “We’ve got to get out of this place,” released in 1965, was his theme tune for years. We were going to move to Cornwall when I was twelve. Of … Continue reading

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Far, far away

The father of a girl with whom I attended primary school told me the story. “My uncle emigrated to Australia in 1910. My grandfather took him to Taunton station and said to him as he left, ‘Whatever you do, don’t … Continue reading

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