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I say it every day not just today

Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 14th, 2010

Seeing all the Valentine’s stuff flying around at the moment makes me wonder why I can’t get into it myself. Part of it comes from childhood of course, never a popular boy with either boys or girls I never got a Valentine from anyone. Feeling sorry for me, worrying that I was becoming isolated and [...]

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Per ardua not quite ad astra

Posted in Memories, Mental Archaeology, Uncategorized on Feb 8th, 2010

I said recently that I gave up trying to gain my Dad’s approval for anything when I was 12 well that’s not strictly true, at the age of 18 I made one huge effort by applying for a commission in the RAF. To be honest I didn’t expect to even get an interview but at [...]

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A new side project, your comments are welcome…

Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 2nd, 2010

This blog will continue to be my main outlet but my old WordPress blog lives again with a new purpose and a new name, riven skies is something of a whiteboard project where I’m experimenting with different writing styles. I’ve never been able to write fiction, perhaps because there have been so many extraordinary and [...]

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More uncertainty about the nature of things…

Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 2nd, 2010

The last post was one of the most painful yet as it’s forced me to re-evaluate everything about my childhood and youth. For all these years I’ve comforted myself with the knowledge that whatever else went wrong, and so much did, I had parents who loved and cherished me, who saved me from the worst [...]

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Welcome to my new home…

Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 17th, 2010

Hi there, welcome to the new home of Old Midhurstian. Nothing much has changed except the address, I’ve even decided to keep the same template because I like it. Please update your blogroll if you link to me I’d hate to lose any of the friends I’ve made. I’ll still be the same Old Midhurstian [...]

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Coming soon…

Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 15th, 2010

This will shortly be the new home of the Old Midhurstian blog

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Just another winter's tale I suppose – BK

Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 9th, 2010

We’ve actually got proper snow here in Exeter so a happier memory from a better time would seem to be appropriate. This little story is from the winter of 1962/63 one of the worst and longest winters ever known in this country. We’d moved to our new house at the end of the summer and [...]

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Rebuilding a broken teenager 101

Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 8th, 2010

OK Moving on. I might as well finish the rather bizarre tale of my rescue from the nut house and the rebuilding of a broken teenager. Dad was a very practical man and believed that all problems could be solved with a practical approach so he started a sort of occupational therapy programme of his [...]

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Get the dart gun, teenage psycho on the loose!

Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 6th, 2010

Going on from my last post and thinking about how utterly ridiculous the situation in the mental hospital was. There I was an 18 year old kid who quite clearly desperately needed to talk and the first thing they did was drug me to a point where I could hardly speak. The term kid is [...]

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And some thoughts on a new year

Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 1st, 2010

Oh well, that’s another New Year out of the way and I’m pleased to say that apart from my back giving out at 1 am I had a really excellent night in my local pub. I’ve discovered that having to use crutches does bring some bonuses, especially the way that people are much more helpful [...]

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