Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Friday, 24 April 2020

Pandemic: foxes and sunsets and suicide

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A couple of months ago, I saw a cat run across the garden with a pigeon in its mouth. I’ve never seen a domestic cat hunt such a big bir...
Friday, 1 November 2019

A woodpecker just when I needed one

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I rest a lot in my bedroom. I read there too and also watch garden birds, I have a chair at the window. It is my meditation, my way of bein...
Wednesday, 14 November 2018

Autobiographical novel: 'a prosthetic voice' (Alexander Chee). And (films of) Guru Dutt

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I recently dipped into Alexander Chee's collection of essays How to Write an Autobiographical Novel . I find reading about writing to ...
Thursday, 15 March 2018

Zaibunissa Street

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I recently learned that Elphinstone Street (named after British official Monstuart Elphinstone) in Karachi was re-named Zaibunissa Street i...
Monday, 10 April 2017

A Book of Banished Words

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Delighted to have a short piece in Nancy Campbell's just published The Polar Tombola: A Book of Banished Words (photo from @BirdEditio...
Monday, 20 February 2017

Bath Flash Fiction Anthology - To Carry Her Home

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Delighted to receive this gorgeous anthology of longlisted, shortlisted and winners in past Bath Flash Awards. My own story 'A widow ...
Saturday, 7 January 2017

On fathers: Om Puri, Hisham Matar and some short writing

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Saddened to learn that Om Puri has died aged only sixty-six . I loved him, of course, as the flawed Pakistani father in East is East. And a...
Tuesday, 5 January 2016

The Appa Dance (made us happy as carpets)

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We had much hilarity with MadLibs over the holidays. My eleven year old nephew introduced us to the game. You're asked for adjectives, ...
Sunday, 8 November 2015

The clamjamfry of the PACE trial

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It's quite a clamjamfry in the world of ME research at the moment. The dodgiest-of-dodgy-trials aka as the Oxford PACE trial is havin...
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Saturday, 12 September 2015

Art and death and farewells in Glencoe and Greenland

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Twitter can be wonderful. I first met artist and writer Nancy Campbell via Twitter, last year in March. Nancy had favourited a snowdrops ph...
Sunday, 2 August 2015

Writing, Rituximab & a Japanese film about death

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Three pieces on writing I have recently enjoyed: An interview with Janice Galloway, who has a new collection of short stories out. Spea...
Friday, 10 July 2015

'Trying out different fathers' - my thoughts on Omar Sharif

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Had tears today, hearing that Omar Sharif has died. Sad for his family, but happy for him that he no longer suffers the ravages of dementia...
Sunday, 21 June 2015

The longest day

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Today is the longest day and also Father's Day - the first one without my beloved stepdad. I can hear his lovely voice. I think of t...
Thursday, 11 June 2015

Hanging bath mats on the gate

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It is eighteen weeks since my wonderful stepdad passed away - I can still not write the word 'died' beside him, in the same sentenc...