autobiography
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50 years ago: Politics, Sex from alecweston Pro 43 days old
Fifty years ago exactly, on Thursday 8th October 1959, there was a General Election, won by Harold Macmillan's Conservatives. He claimed we'd never ...
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My Father's Harem and the Grandfather Clock from alecweston Pro 62 days old
Coming back from another day spent at my mother's I remember this post, blogged backin April 2006,about my father's drcline and death. My parents were ...
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Foreplay from alecweston Pro 72 days old
A three year old post about an affair that happened far too long ago, on the telephone and in bed, near Glasgow "Oh, fuck off, Alec. Just FUCK OFF. ...
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H.M.S. Fascinating from alecweston Pro 72 days old
Shortly after my arrival as a boarder at prep school (we are talking here round about 1953) the Headmaster died and was succeeded - in the manner of ...
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A Memory (squared) from alecweston Pro 80 days old
My insomnia, as far as I can remember, began when I became a boarding at my 'prep' school, aged nine. As I have mentioned here before, I was terrified ...
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A Poet's Song + Bad Memory from alecweston Pro 82 days old
It was the first poem I ever learnt The rain had fallen, the poet arose. Or perhaps the second. When I was ten, at boarding school. He passed by ...
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I was a capitalist pig, before my voice broke from alecweston Pro 134 days old
I was sent away to boarding school at the age of 9. At first I was miserable. And then there was http://alphamin.blog.co.uk/2006/04/15/the_shittish_empire~730411/ But ...
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Third Rail from alecweston Pro 141 days old
I have been thinking about the two or three months after I was expelled from school - on the last day of my last term. Usually - including elsewhere ...
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Lost Exam from alecweston Pro 149 days old
For some unaccountable reason, finally unpacking from my holiday, I found tucked away in the zip pocket of my two-year-old suitcase the Essay Question ...
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Aunt Louis' suspender from alecweston Pro 183 days old
(recycled and revised) I have several, early memories - of dreams; - of time spent with my dad; - my earliest waking up in my cot, alone in a room, ...
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