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My working career spans the Royal Navy, a spell as a dairyman in the Highlands of Scotland, many years in military survey in the British Army, and a fourth career in Information Technology. I have recently become a budding author. See more...-
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Book Review: Perfectly Flawed: Living with Genetic Illness by Molvia Maddox
It is with great sadness and heavy heart that I report the death of Krystie, a very courageous and inspirational young lady. I worked with her mother, Molvia, at the time that she published this book, which you must read. … Continue reading
Posted in Book review
Tagged book review, courage, daughter, diagnosis, friedrich's ataxia, genetic illness, inspiration, inspirational, krystie, maddox, molvia, mother
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Scatter my Ashes
This is a poem that I wrote last year and recited during the Poetry Open Mic Evening at the Swanwick Writers’ Summer School 2018. It is about the scattering of my Mum’s ashes. I posted it on my blog, but … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Poetry
Tagged ashes, bonar bridge, highlands, mother, personal, poetry, Scotland
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Billy
This is a poem that I learnt at school when I was eight. You can imagine my mother’s horror when my little sister, aged six at the time, returned from a friend’s birthday party, and the conversation went something like … Continue reading
Eighteen Years!
Hard to believe It is eighteen years since my beautiful Mum died at the relatively young age of sixty-five. It was only eight weeks from when she received her diagnosis of pancreatic cancer to the day that she left us. … Continue reading
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