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Imogen on New Year’s Day

Posted on January 1, 2021 by Tim Smith
imogen on New Year Day

For the first time in her life she had a plan that was for her own happiness. It was simple plan that required her to be patient, which she knew she was. Continue Reading →

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Mr Burchill’s Memories

Posted on December 16, 2020 by Tim Smith
A Christmas story

A Christmas Story 2020 It was Christmas morning a few years after The Beatles ceased to be. It was early, dark and crisp. Mr James Burchill was long retired and rattling around in his flat high up opposite the Cathedral… Continue Reading →

Blog, Christmas, Fiction, Short Story Christmas, Fiction, Horror, Short Story

Covivid Tales: Giving Up is Good

Posted on August 24, 2020 by Tim Smith
In the pub

Two months ago, during Covid Lockdown, the time finally came to accept the fact that drinking booze has never done any good, ever. Fractured and fracturing memories would vouch for this statement if they possibly could. Continue Reading →

Alcohol, Blog, Booze, Health, Lockdown Alcohol, Blog, Booze, Covid, Lockdown

Covivid Tales: The House is Falling Down

Posted on August 22, 2020 by Tim Smith
Booze time!

The back of our house is falling off, sliding slowly into brick death, and the insurance company is a phone maze with goodness knows what at the end of it? But things could be worse. Continue Reading →

Baseball, Blog, Health, Insomnia, Sleep Alcohol, Blog, Booze, Fags, House, Nicotine, Sleep

Covivid: Release the Bats!

Posted on August 20, 2020 by Tim Smith
Mr Met, the mascot with the finger

Insomnia and Lockdown have ganged up and forced me to watch and then become obsessed with something very alien to me. Let’s dig deeper. Continue Reading →

Blog, Insomnia, Sleep Baseball, Blog, Insomnia, Sleep

Insomnia, Madness & Fun Times Ahead

Posted on August 10, 2020 by Tim Smith
The author not sleeping but deep in thought.

Real insomnia is a relationship wrecker, it’s a straight road to madness, it’s a hallucinogen, it’s a soul sapper. So, where’s the fun side? Here we go… Continue Reading →

Anxiety, Baseball, Blog, Cricket, Depression, Health, Mental Health, Sport Baseball, Blog, Cricket, Insomnia, Mets, Sleep

Thoughts on a funeral and love

Posted on July 16, 2020 by Tim Smith
Taronga Zoo

Today is 15 years to the day since I spoke the eulogy at my daughter, Zuzu’s funeral. She was eight years old, nine that September had she lived that long, she had died two weeks previously. I’m sitting at home… Continue Reading →

Ageing, Blog, Depression, Disability, Family, Zuzu Blog, Family, Life, Loss, Memory, Zuzu

Speaking as a statue

Posted on June 30, 2020 by Tim Smith
Statue

I’ve been a statue for a hundred years or so now. Prior to that I was a loose mixture of metals, a gang if you will. Very disorganised, a little shallow maybe, quite violent when in a heated situation. Young… Continue Reading →

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Come on! Before it’s too late!

Posted on June 19, 2020 by Tim Smith
Twyford Church

It’s 1976, a boy has a smoke and meets a girl He sat in the churchyard, feeling the fag packet in his pocket. He didn’t want to go home where all his relatives would have arrived in black, trying to… Continue Reading →

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Fathers Day 2020 – A Sad Admission

Posted on June 18, 2020 by Tim Smith
Zuzu and Daddy

Fathers Day in the UK is rolling around again. Every year since my daughter Zuzu died in July 2005 in her room in my flat in Sydney I contend with this day. This year it’s hit me in a different… Continue Reading →

Blog, Disability, Family, Grief, Zuzu Blog, Disability, Family, Grief, Zuzu

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