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A Christmas Cracker

It's New Year's Eve

Schools I Would Like to Have Attended

Aye Aye, What’s All This AI About?

What EasyJet Cabin Crew Would Like to Say

Silence in Church

An Assertive Lady Frightens Me

Sitting Next to Rosa Parks

The Man with the Shopping Bags

When I Was a Child

A Choice of Pet

The Bravest of Flowers

The Black Plague

Ferries on the Mersey

Dismantling Famous Poems

My Memorable Teacher

My Dansette Record Player

Landmarks of Our Past

If Shakespeare Lived in Birkenhead

The River Runs Through Us

Growing Old Disgracefully

I'd Love to be in a Band

Frustration at the Post Office

Protesters and Visionaries

When I'm Not Here

A Busker's World Has Changed

An Endangered Species

The States and Us

A Wetherspoons’ Species

The Birthday Cake

The Streets of Liverpool

Song Titles that Didn’t Quite Make It

The Cuddle Manager

A Drunken Man in Liverpool

Things That Perplex

Merseyside Etched in Heart and Stone

Thank You Pink Floyd

A Taste of Scouse

The Woman with the Unusual gait

My Dad's Bigger than Your Dad

Nature vs Nurture

Nick's New Lungs

No Idioms for Me, Thank You

My Friends the Trees

The Train Journey

A Murmuration of Starlings

Overcoming Disappointment

A Consultation With My GP

The End of the School Day

Soon I'll Just be a Memory

The Best Attributes

The Strength of Love

Life is a Circus

Wolf Whistles and Cat Calls

Inhibition is the Curse of the Repressed

Winding Ways and Wrong Decisions

Dance, Sing and Embrace

Mouse in the House

A Respectful Atheist

Remote Controls

Trump's Spoonerisms

The New Year 2025

It Was Just a Football Match

AI and Learning

Mice Living in a Bookshop

Cooperating, Negotiating and Compromising

How Do You Measure Time?

The Telephone Box

The Missing Corkscrew

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

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