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Page 1 AUTUMN AGAIN
Page 2 … I was a mere flash in Steve’s pan
Page 3 Shipton College: my home-from-home
Page 4 Sixty-two shopping days to Christmas
Page 5 Saturday: Ian Seed‘s prose poetry workshop
Page 6 Sunday: rebound
Page 7 Monday. A new poem!
Page 8 Tuesday: Hallowe’en
Page 9 Piggy-in-the-middle? No thanks
Page 10 Disinhibition
Page 11 Dragon. Not.
Page 12 A week later
Page 13 A Dom among the Brigg Mill Drawing Group
Page 14 Plumber (1)
Page 15 Plumber (2)
Page 16 What John does for a living
Page 17 Pensioners’ group, Addingley
Page 18 SUCCESS, SUCCESS, SUCCESS
Page 19 Leaving Nathan and Paolo’s
Page 20 THE FESTIVE SEASON Even though I am happy…
Page 21 Friends (1)
Page 22 Friends (2)
Page 23 ‘Flash fiction’ competition
Page 24 Is this poetry or prose?
Page 25 Plumber (3)
Page 26 The artist’s perspective
Page 27 Dougal’s studio, snowy December morning
Page 28 Last Foundation class before Christmas
Page 29 Christmas Eve
Page 30 THE DARK MONTHS Eat, jog it off. Eat, jog it off.
Page 31 No period
Page 32 Five months?
Page 33 The father
Page 34 Plan A
Page 35 Revised Plan A
Page 36 The old ones are the best
Page 37 Plan B
Page 38 Bottom falling out of Plan B
Page 39 Sculpted in clay (1)
Page 40 Sculpted in clay (2)
Page 41 Sculpted in wire
Page 42 Thursday
Page 43 3.10 a.m.
Page 44 Some weeks later…
Page 45 Post ‘Scream‘
Page 46 Dougal’s studio, late March
Page 47 Abortion pose
Page 48 No peace
Page 49 SUMMER Back to normal
Page 50 Tampon string
Page 51 Dougal’s studio, depleted group, end of June
Page 52 Young. Not.
Page 53 London launch
Page 54 Post-launch
Page 55 Interview on Radio Pepperwharfe (1)
Page 56 Interview on Radio Pepperwharfe (2)
Page 57 Bluebottles at Caulder Bottom Mill
Page 58 Rainy Sunday afternoon, Chianti upstairs
Page 59 48th birthday
Page 60 The person who knows me best
Page 61 Option 1
Page 62 Option 2
Page 63 Option 3
Page 64 Victoria Herz of Brown and Herz Literary Agency
Two Small Lives a film short (16 minutes)
EFL/ESOL notes for English language learners