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World AIDS Day

Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 1st, 2009

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Aspirational – Moi?

Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 30th, 2009

A comment appeared on my Friends Reunited page over the weekend which has left me feeling a wee bit odd. I suppose I can take comfort in the knowledge that my acting ability was even better than I thought, even a boy who travelled on the same school bus as me for some 5 years [...]

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OK I'm bloody minded, I admit it

Posted in Gay Stuff, Nostalgia, Uncategorized on Nov 29th, 2009

An interesting question came to me during a conversation prompted by my post about boys coming out. More than one person over the last I don’t know how many years, on hearing just parts of my life story, has asked “How did you survive?” “How did you go on?” and at last I think I [...]

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Ah the pretensions of youth

Posted in Nostalgia, Uncategorized on Nov 28th, 2009

Follow me, the General said and we, like dancing, brass band believing children ran behind the marching columns of the future dead By Malcolm McLachlan – Form 2A – November 1965 That erm… poem? was written by me in 1965. It’s a piece of work that I did for a prep assignment in English. Written [...]

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If I'm on the road to hell at least I'm fairly happy

Posted in Ranty Stuff, Uncategorized on Nov 26th, 2009

It would seem that we are facing yet another onslaught from the forces of “light”. Of all the prejudice I’ve faced over the years these smug, self-righteous gits probably make me the angriest. One of my very close friends, the one I meet every Sunday evening for a beer, is a devout Christian and yet [...]

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My spleen needs venting

Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 22nd, 2009

The worst thing, I’ve discovered, about being physically disabled is that it robs you of purpose. Since being made redundant in June I’ve been unfortunate in that my arthritis has got worse so I’ve had to start taking morphine to control the pain. The upshot of this is that for a significant part of each [...]

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Mental archaeology

Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 21st, 2009

Aaaargh! My dev machine broke, right in the middle of developing an eCommerce site for Gary’s Masters graduation Ball so I’m taking a break from that and I’m also ducking the book for a couple of days while I deal with another bunch of horrible stuff, got to be done though. I had an unpleasant [...]

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That makes me sad

Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 9th, 2009

Perhaps it’s just a classic mid-life crisis but the other night I was hit by an overwhelming sense that I’ve wasted most of my life. It’s taken me until now, in my mid fifties, to realise what an extraordinary child I was and how little I’ve actually achieved. Many children of my generation learned to [...]

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Why am I not surprised

Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 7th, 2009

I despise the present government and desperately want this affront to Socialism to end however I can see that the threatened landslide to the Tories would be equally disastrous. Within the first half day of the Conservative Party conference we learned that they have already identified their particular bête noir should they form the next [...]

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Arrogant and elitist? I can't argue with that

Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 22nd, 2009

The CBI are quite astonishing aren’t they? Their proposals, coming at a time when the whole area of student finance is a headline issue, display not only a complete lack of social conscience but also a worrying desire to return to the times of oligarchs. One would have to be completely divorced from reality to [...]

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