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  • Another Eulogy

    Another Eulogy

    With my Mum’s death coming just after I moved house in December 2025 (and a week after her brother’s, my uncle) the winter of 25/26 has been a tough one. Mums funeral on 23rd January 2026, planned to be quite simple, was complicated by the minister not turning up. The funeral director took charge and… Read more

  • The MA … and then it was over

    The MA … and then it was over

    The MA in Creative Writing Read more

  • Writing about Margaret Atwood & George Orwell

    For my MA on Creative Writing we were asked to research the career paths of two favourite writers. How they first got published, their day jobs, how much they have been published and whether they have written about their process as writers etc. I am planning on writing an essay on Margaret Atwood for an… Read more

  • A Eulogy

    A Eulogy

    I had to read this out loud back in December, but as I’ve waded through the paperwork of a life I thought I would post it somewhere for posterity. When he was in hospital this last time, Dad was sleeping a lot – they’d said they didn’t expect him to make it. One evening I… Read more

  • Alliterative shopping list

    Alliterative shopping list

    Peppers A paper (news) Some paper (A4) Pot pasta Passata Pepperoni pizza Pepperami Poppadoms Pappardelle pasta Petit pois Peri peri sauce Read more

  • Blog 4.0

    Blog 4.0

    It’s strange to be starting a new blog. It’s not the first, so perhaps I should get this one right and persevere with it, rather than adding a few posts, leaving it to lie fallow, and then forgetting about it. The past ones have been a mixed bag: Runningpiers.blogspot.com – the first blog I set… Read more