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The Swaling, Part Fifty Five

15th May 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Myself and my colleague Natasha Williams are at our department’s private election night party at a packed and noisy Dolphin Square bistro. In the early hours of the tenth of June nineteen eighty-three, a colour [more…]

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The Swaling, Part Fifty Four

8th May 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Myself and my colleague Captain Davis are in the constituency office of Sleescale MP, Major Sir Fergus McDee MC. He is standing at the window facing into the room, eying us up. His secretary, Miss [more…]

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The Swaling, Part Fifty Three

1st May 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Myself and Davies are sat in the local MPs surgery waiting room in Sleescale. In one of the better parts of the town, outside are cobbled streets where old gas lights stand redundant next to [more…]

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The Swaling, Part Fifty Two

24th April 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Myself and Davies were sat on a hilltop (the flat limestone pavement type) in our bivvys and sleeping bags, squashed together for warmth. We faced towards the coast. At the horizon, a flat sea was [more…]

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The Swaling, Part Fifty One

17th April 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Myself and Davies are two dots in the landscape running along county roads from Sleescale to a neighbouring town. Occasionally, we take short cuts across farmer’s fields. The weather is cold. So cold that the [more…]

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Mancs, Marx and Mill Towns

15th April 2021 Joe Slater 0

More notes from 45 years of cycling If you are following this series, you will know that my kind of curiosity is one that is still making money, or at least providing a public service [more…]

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The Swaling, Part Fifty

10th April 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

“Very nice,” declared the Colonel while the pair of us looked towards a bungalow, stable block and paddock, one of a number of exclusive homes sitting in a knot about twenty minutes drive from the [more…]

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The Swaling, Part Forty Nine

3rd April 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

“Silly old fart.” Never slow to turn thoughts into words, Davies expressed that one from his side of our shared room, above a Sleescale corner shop, while sat in bed reading a three-day-old newspaper by [more…]

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The Swaling, Part Forty Eight

27th March 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Having been indoctrinated into my new task by the Colonel, I wandered into the town centre with his money to suit and boot myself. Jeans, T-shirt, top and trainers made way for a Marks and [more…]

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