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The People Who Matter

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I lost my best friend a few years ago. How very careless of you, some might think – and to be honest,  it does sometimes feel like I was a bit remiss. Didn’t tell her everything that I wanted to, took her never-failing friendship for granted, didn’t make her enough of those endless cups of […]

An Event – 29 October — Tim’s Blog

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Some news hot off the press about an exciting event coming up at the end of the month! On Sunday 29 October, from 2 to 4pm I’m going to be doing a reading event with two other authors, at The Gallery in Slaithwaite. I’ll be reading excerpts from Revolution Day and talking about the inspiration […]

Diana Days

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“Mummy, where were you when you heard about that nice Princess Diana getting killed?” “Off my face in an Edinburgh hotel room, sweetie-pie. And believe you-me, I thought it must have been pretty strong stuff that we’d been having … when *that* particular news item flashed across the TV screen.” Actually, no. I didn’t answer […]

Let’s Hair It For The Boys

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In 1989, a very strident (and quite frankly, as mad as a mongoose) marxist lass at my college, told me that ‘you can’t be a feminist if you wear make-up, shave your arm-pits and dye your hair’. Of course, me being me, I felt compelled to waltz into the building each day, gurning my frosted […]

We’re in a New Country now

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On the morning of the General Election results of 2017, one of my favourite comedians, Mark Steel, declared; “We’re in a new country now.” I couldn’t help but agree with him. Political awareness and interest has (finally) been pricked here and I take my hat off to the young people of the UK who quickly […]