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The Poet Laura-eate: A Murder In The Family

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Monday, 8 June 2015. A Murder In The Family. Recently my partner's mother told us she had just lost her cousin Peter in Canada. He was a fit and well retired professor in his early 70s who had recently been on a hiking trip when he was diagnosed with a particularly aggressive form of cancer. Within three months he was dead. This led to the story of his life. Widowed and broke and with the city in ruins, Trudl decided she needed to find a better life for herself and her boys. Trudl was naturally popular w...

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The Poet Laura-eate: Heritage Heroics

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Friday, 19 June 2015. It has never been cheap or convenient to save the nation's heritage. That is not the point (though personally I would argue that, contrary to developer's claims, it is almost always. Cheaper to restore what exists than to demolish it and erect something unworthy in its place with little more than a 50 year life expectancy, as the majority of new builds have. Fewer, if they fall out of fashion before that). Such is the fight ahead to save the oldest commercial building in Brighton.

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The Poet Laura-eate: Mistakes

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Monday, 9 February 2015. We live in terror of making mistakes, yet that is the very way in which homo sapiens learn. A parent can tell a small child not to touch the electric hob plates on the cooker when they are on until they are blue in the face but it is only when the child touches a burning hot plate for themselves once the parent's back is turned that they accept their parent was right and it is a bad idea. I know. I was that small child. And I've made a million mistakes since,. When making a major...

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The Poet Laura-eate: The Adoption of Reconciliation...?

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Wednesday, 29 July 2015. The Adoption of Reconciliation? A colleague in her twenties, *Jenny, shares a flat with three female flatmates in a nearby town. Friends since childhood, Jenny is the only one of the four whose parents are still together. As a caring and loving father who has not seen his (similarly aged) daughters for three and a half years now since they decided to reject him. Ultimately, no one should. Allow their lives to be ruined by decisions that others have made, particularly if, like my ...

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The Poet Laura-eate: Oxford Outrage

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Monday, 20 July 2015. While the photo scarcely does justice to the scale in real life, this is the block of flats being built next to my partner's mother's bungalow in a leafy Oxford suburb. A perfectly respectable 1950s family home was demolished to make way for them. Despite the artists' impression looking like a prison block (always bad news if even the artists' impression can't make a building pretty! She has the full support of her family. Locally we note that a seafront petrol station has just been...

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The Poet Laura-eate: Visiting Time

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Monday, 25 May 2015. When can I go home? This is your home Mum. How long have I lived here? Two years ago Mum. You didn’t want to live on your own, remember? Where do I live? You’ve got a nice little flat just down the corridor Mum. I want to go home. This is your home Mum. How long have I lived here? When did that happen? Two years ago Mum. What did he want to go and do that for? I dunno. It’s sad isn’t it? Have another piece of cake Mum. Oh my heart breaks. This must be so very hard. Hi Steve, sorry to...

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The Poet Laura-eate: Save British Home Stores!

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Friday, 3 April 2015. Save British Home Stores! I was sad to hear that retail Tsar, Sir Philip Green, has sold off BHS for £1 to a little-known investor group called Retail Acquisitions. As it has been losing out to inferior rivals. Where they have gone wrong over the years is that when they get a winning product which sells like hot cakes, they invariably never re-stock it! I bought my favourite ever pair of trainers in BHS - with the flexible soles that I like - in block silver colour with no horrible ...

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The Poet Laura-eate: July 2015

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Wednesday, 29 July 2015. The Adoption of Reconciliation? A colleague in her twenties, *Jenny, shares a flat with three female flatmates in a nearby town. Friends since childhood, Jenny is the only one of the four whose parents are still together. As a caring and loving father who has not seen his (similarly aged) daughters for three and a half years now since they decided to reject him. Ultimately, no one should. Allow their lives to be ruined by decisions that others have made, particularly if, like my ...

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The Poet Laura-eate: Sewing Lessons for Buccaneers

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Friday, 13 March 2015. Sewing Lessons for Buccaneers. Is it really over a month since my last blog post? Where does life go? Maybe I'm waiting for some seamless and erudite narrative to share rather than the few random jottings currently in my head. However in lieu of any kind of literary opus;. Maybe his parents died metaphorically? In that he now feels mature enough to not be a child anymore. Though given his Tweet. perhaps not. 14 March 2015 at 10:57. Some use deceit to get attention. Mud in the Blood.