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Drawing With Pastels

30th April 2023 Blown Periphery 11000 Comments

In part two of this series I’d like to introduce the joys and messiness of drawing with soft pastels. The pastels I use are chalk based, although some are oil-based and therefore more like crayons. [more…]

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Samyaza Epilogue – 2017, No Time to Mope

11th December 2022 Blown Periphery 2698 Comments

Some violence. Afarin Khan looked at herself in the mirror and sure enough, an old lady stared back at her. She picked at her hair and felt her joints that told her she was getting [more…]

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Samyaza Chapter 34 – Albania and England 2013

4th December 2022 Blown Periphery 2570 Comments

Contains violence and a description of suicide. Jean-Claude took the morning BA flight from London to Tirana, and it landed at 13:00. He got a taxi from the airport to the British embassy at Rruga [more…]

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Samyaza Chapter 33 – England, Afghanistan and England – 2012

27th November 2022 Blown Periphery 2675 Comments

He moved in with her in the little house on the hill. He was gentle, kind and a good nursing orderly, changing the dressings on the burns every day and weaning her off the Oxymorphone. [more…]

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Samyaza Chapter 32 – Libya, – April – May 2011

20th November 2022 Blown Periphery 2651 Comments

The next time they visited Sirte, Belhaj was more disposed to see them. Afarin said nothing in the pick-up truck and was totally incognito in her silk farrashia and this time, Jean-Claude introduced Julian to [more…]

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Samyaza Chapter 31 – Libya, February – April 2011

13th November 2022 Blown Periphery 2820 Comments

The next morning, she moved the pickup truck round and onto the road. She was wearing her hijab, tightly wrapped so only her eyes showed. She waited and saw Jean-Claude and Edge walk out to [more…]

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Samyaza Chapter 30 – Near Buerat Libya, February 2011

6th November 2022 Blown Periphery 3156 Comments

Action to isolate the Qadhafi regime Mr Speaker, let me turn to the pressure we are now putting on the Qadhafi regime. We should be clear. For the future of Libya and its people, Colonel [more…]

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Samyaza Chapter 29 – August 2007 – Wiltshire, RAF Brize Norton and Martigues France

30th October 2022 Blown Periphery 1967 Comments

He visited her religiously every weekend. By now she was able to speak clearly, although her voice was a little hoarse. He brought her books about the Crusades and one about the SOE. He taught [more…]

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Samyaza Chapter 28, Great Western Hospital July 2007

23rd October 2022 Blown Periphery 3723 Comments

He had been sitting in A&E for long hours and it was now 09:30. He had watched them wheel her out them to an operating theatre and she had come back, still on the trolly [more…]

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