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Oliver's Poetry Garret: November 2006
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The Life of Oliver Wilson of Brighton and Hove and Lewes. Wednesday, November 08, 2006. Lewes Bonfire / Night of Agony. Lewes Bonfire was an extraordinary experience, made even more so this year because of a strange succession of events. When I dropped into the King’s Head last week to pay my subs, I half-jokingly said to the Chairman of the Southover Bonfire Society that we needed a Southover Bonfire Society Poem. It was a perishingly cold night. I put on six layers of shirts and pullovers before tr...
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Oliver's Poetry Garret: January 2007
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The Life of Oliver Wilson of Brighton and Hove and Lewes. Tuesday, January 30, 2007. Why People Do Stand-up Comedy. Why People Do Stand-up Comedy. This week I returned to the comedy stage for the first time since I closed my club, Joe's Comedy Madhouse, in November 2005. It was a weird and beautiful experience. Afterwards, Tom said, 'That was beautiful, Oliver! It occurred to me that no one up on that stage was doing it purely out of a desire to entertain an audience. We all had sad-limned issues dri...
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Oliver's Poetry Garret: July 2006
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The Life of Oliver Wilson of Brighton and Hove and Lewes. Thursday, July 20, 2006. Rather than bore the socks off you all with more details of my mundane life, I am going to take a leaf out of my talented fellow blogger Olivia's book and do something different and educational this week. Here are some key dates in Lord Byron’s life that I have put together:. 1816) Lord Byron’s wife leaves him never to return. 1788) Byron born at 16 Holles Street, London. 1788) Byron is baptised George Gordon. 1816) Byron ...
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Oliver's Poetry Garret: June 2006
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The Life of Oliver Wilson of Brighton and Hove and Lewes. Friday, June 23, 2006. Nightmare / World Cup Injury. The last 24 hours have been a total nightmare. Someone has trashed my beloved motor, The Last Word in Luxury, by crashing into it, smashing the back axle and knocking off a back wheel. It was parked on a supposedly respectable street in Royal Leamington Spa. Enquiries have revealed that it was Plod who nicked it, ordering a local garage to remove it, without checking with me. My back was not goo...
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Oliver's Poetry Garret: February 2007
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The Life of Oliver Wilson of Brighton and Hove and Lewes. Saturday, February 17, 2007. Obergurgl Skiing / Le Touquet. Today is the last of my eight days of skiing in Obergurgl, Austria - high in the Alps within sight (from the peaks) of the Italian border. It has been a brilliant break, although skiing with a slipped disc in your back is, perhaps, not the wisest course of action. The ski school here is somewhat chaotic, which can be very annoying, but, individually, the instructors have been brilliant.
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Oliver's Poetry Garret: December 2006
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The Life of Oliver Wilson of Brighton and Hove and Lewes. Sunday, December 31, 2006. Odd Ends / Poisoned. Odd Ends, New Year's Eve 2006. This is my final blog of 2006 and to reflect on the end of an odd year I have garnered a selection of my favourite odd ends of photography that I have taken over the past couple of decades. However, I enjoy them just for their odd looks and hardly think of where or when they were taken. On Christmas Eve, my great aunt Aenne died in Bremen, Germany, at the grand age of 9...
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Oliver's Poetry Garret: September 2006
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The Life of Oliver Wilson of Brighton and Hove and Lewes. Friday, September 29, 2006. My First Poetry Gigs / Loo Love. My First Poetry Gigs. My poetry friend Sean Kelly (pictured left) offered me my first poetry gig, at his excellent club, PureAndGoodAndRight, at the TOYK bar in Leamington. I had just started to prepare for it, deciding which of my far-from-perfect repertoire of poems I should try out on a live audience. I had just finished redrafting the second poem when the time came. While a live ...
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Oliver's Poetry Garret: March 2007
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The Life of Oliver Wilson of Brighton and Hove and Lewes. Friday, March 02, 2007. Thin Lizzy / Warwick For Sale. God, I feel pissed off. The only thing that has kept me going this week is listening to an old Thin Lizzy tape in the car. The live version of Cowboy Song segued into The Boys Are Back (In Town) is absolutely awesome. It makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. Having broadband in the flat has made a huge difference to our lives there. The internet replaces television. For ...Still...
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Oliver's Poetry Garret: August 2006
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The Life of Oliver Wilson of Brighton and Hove and Lewes. Monday, August 07, 2006. Edinburgh Nights / Joe's Comedy Madhouse. It is the perfect summer's night in Edinburgh - The City of Dreams. The night sky is a deep, deep blue, tinged with green, yellow and red at its edges. Fireworks are exploding behind the castle. The Firth of Forth looks serene in the far distance, from my room, the Edinburgh Garret, at the very top of this great granite building, off George Street. In years past, I have experienced...
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