Category Archives: Last day of the Month

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31st December 2011

  Due to the excesses of Christmas and New Year, the blog page for ‘Last day of the Month’ will be a day or two late. I have published what it is completed so far and will develop the page before … Continue reading

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30th November 2011

  November 1st and the wind lifting the clinging leaves from the branches, slowly exposing the strong laboured limbs, in the warm, damp air…. it is raining over St Pauls and is gradually wetter further North, around the Scottish coasts, while here … Continue reading

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31st October 2011

  October 1st…. the telephone line is still down. No chance of getting my ‘Last day of the Month’ article for September done now. I find some solace in the fact that I have got to go to town to watch … Continue reading

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30th September 2011

  No sooner have the salutes fallen/faded/flags run down from Wooton Bassett than the Defence Ministry outlines Armed Service personnel cuts…. Nearly 2,000 Army and Navy lives less dramatically shifted to one side, ready for burial…. Internment…. Brize Norton takes on … Continue reading

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Welcome Back

  After the recent problems with connectivity we are pleased to announce that normal service has almost been renewed. However, there are one or two points of order. The September episode of ‘Last day of the Month’ will be published … Continue reading

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Apologies

    Due to unforseen technical problems, we have been unable to bring you the latest edition of ‘Last day of the Month’ for September 2011. Please be patient. These issues have been provisionally resolved. Normal business will be resumed … Continue reading

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31st August 2011

  August 1st, the weeks stretch out towards the final Bank Holiday before Christmas, the last day of the month bringing an end to the meteorological summer. Life continues to be a montage, or a marriage, or a mirage …. maybe all … Continue reading

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31st July 2011

  The first Friday of the month, with Gareth and Joel playing some tunes by Longshanks and friends…. I though of Egan and his Skilled Helper model…. I defended myself to the challenging notion of being a counsellor…. Memory aides…. Moments that help…. … Continue reading

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30th June 2011

  Work in Progress <<   James Joyce published his novel ‘Finnegans Wake’ in 1939, just months before the outbreak of the 2nd World War. It was serialised in fragments, under the title ‘Work in Progress’, in a variety of literary … Continue reading

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31st May 2011

  33 hours and counting. I was thinking of having a month off the grog. As always. I remembered back to that day, on the late May Bank Holiday of 2010 when I had a little quiver in my wrist, involuntarily, and … Continue reading

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