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Category Archive for 'Humour'

Odd facts about Malcolm, number 7 on the list…

Posted in Humour, Lists, Memories, Mental Archaeology on Jul 9th, 2010

First up from the list of 33 odd facts is number 7, a story I told some time ago but which bears retelling as it graphically illustrates the boy I once was. This is a funny story although, for me, it wasn’t at the time. It became one of my Mother’s stock tales calculated to [...]

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More misadventures the Old Midhurstian way…

Posted in Humour, Memories, Nostalgia on Jan 14th, 2010

I’m dotting about a bit randomly at the moment, partly to get my mind off the memories that I’m deliberately digging up for the book, tell you what those demons had better damn well be dead when I get it finished. After moving to London in 1975 I found myself in the care of an [...]

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Running with scissors would have been safer – BK

Posted in Humour, Memories, Nostalgia on Jan 12th, 2010

For  no reason other than I remembered it another little adventure from the innocent days and a lesson in how to scare your mother half to death. I would have been 9 at the time and had just moved up to the top class in Primary school. A couple of weeks into the new term [...]

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A little bit more public than I'd bargained for…

Posted in Humour, Memories, Mental Archaeology on Jan 11th, 2010

Here’s a story that I wouldn’t believe if I didn’t know it to be true. It happened when I was 13 and flailing around trying to deal with my then unwelcome homosexuality. There’s no particular reason for telling this tale, it just popped into my head last night. Anyone who knows me in the flesh [...]

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