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Names on a Windscreen

Christmas Competition

Textiles and Me

Purple Quality Street

Back-to-Back in Bed

A Crocodile of Nursery Tots

Along a Country Lane to the Pub

Letter to My Great, Great, Great, Great Grandchildren

The Prince's Problem

In Memory Clark, the ‘Maple Kind’ Dog

Christmas is Coming

I'm Not Immortal

Mirth and Misery

I’m Just a Mollusc on the Ocean Floor

The Magician Who Made Mistakes

Parthenogenesis

Little E on a Diet

The Social Butterfly and the Hermit Crab

No-one is Ugly, Just Unique

An American Civil War

Getting to Know You

Comparative Times

A Colourful Wedding

Close the Curtains We're Passing Through Wolverhampton

Getting My Teachers Back

Alan the Wind Turbine

A Liverpool Anthem

The Boy Who Didn't Know a Horse from a Cow

Ellen the Usherette

Naked Attraction

Sayings on Merseyside Streets

Driving Behind a Tanker

Everyone is a Photographer These Days

My Limited French

The Garden Event

Your Back Passage

The Light of My Life

My Negative Traits

Time Travelling

The Older Lady Golfer

A Conferred Aunt

You Can Have All of Me

The Sleeper to Inverness

What Does Joe Public Know?

Lasting Memories

We Thank You So Much

International Relations

A Lament for Jurgen

The Wreck of the Royal Charter

Frightened to Death

The Bravest of Flowers

You Know You're Old When...

A Stargazing Man

Things I'll Miss

Homer's Silly Ad

Marlborough Poets

The Papal Election

Damned Auto-correct

Helpful New Words

Of All the Stars

The Misspelt Animal World

Bedtime in Our House

Displays of Happiness

Look What They've Done to the NHS, Ma

Another Messiah

Designer Gear John

The Lighthouse Keeper

A Soldier On Gold Beach

The Alternative Christmas Dinner

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The Hospital Waiting Room

That's Men For You

From Gorky Park to Hyde Park

Global Warming in Limerick

The Town of Regrets

Karaoke at The Winds in Glasgow

The Worst Possible News

Monday 13th November - Aunty-Bullying Week

Maybe I'm Weird

Little Bobby Baxter

We Owe Those Brave Souls

Rose Tinted Glasses

The Doctor's Surgery

The First Woman to Fly

David Attenborough

Marzipan and Marmite

Little E and the 52 Pies

Flipping Beer Mats

The 1960s Neglected House

What Would I Take to the Repair Shop

A Letter of Complaint

Ten Imponderables

Marlborough Teeth

A Day at Partick Thistle

Alcohol Makes Me Mellow

A Good Battering

The Memory Mirror

Give Me Stress Over Boredom Any Day

Covid Took David

A Handwritten Letter

My Mother and Music

Crossing the Mersey

The Festive Steam Train

Subtract to Add

Products of Old

Kiss My Ass Goodbye

My Dansette Record Player

A Photograph in a Box

Larry, The Downing Street Cat

The Lollipop Brigade

In 2123 Remembering the Past

Landscape Gardening

The Hypochondriac

The Understated Diary Entry

Our Life Together

We All Need An Allotment

What's in a Name

I'm Sure I'm a Sloth

Things Just Got Worse

Demise of the Topic Bar

On The Day of Reckoning

When You Were Little

Things I wouldn’t Dare to Do

I’m Stuck Inside This Telescope

An Extinct Conversation

Trading Body Parts

My Homework is Due

Daphne the Great Dane

The Hand-dryer in the Loo

We’re Royals Son

Looking in the Mirror

The Class Conductor

Surprises in the Family Tree

Celebrated Artists

A Trip Around the Zoo

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