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This is a personal memoir about growing up in Yorkshire in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and later. It is not always about Yorkshire, nor is it entirely memoir, but most of it is. Names and other details have been changed to avoid difficulties. This page lists and links all posts roughly in chronological order (rather than by posting date).  

Some items recall people and experiences, others try to give things a humorous slant, and some are of the “look how the world has changed” kind. Among my favourites are Dad’s Thursday Helper and M Dunham Are Crap which remember my earliest times and Uncle Jimmy which is more journalistic. I enjoyed researching and writing The Exorcist which I hope is at least mildly humorous. Lookin’ for a ‘Feet’ is more polemical. So far there are couple of stories which, although fictional, are based on real-life situations, such as A Silly Christmas Love Story. Probably none of my posts are really ‘finished’ – they never are. As I said at the beginning, you think you are going to be the next Alan Bennett but soon come to realise you’re no better writer than Tony.

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Past and Future  Hello Living Memory Bath Hospital 1839 What Is Wrong In This Room?  What Is Wrong With This Steamer? Uncle Jimmy Mrs Quackworth 1 Pals  The Airship in the Shed George Gibbard Jackson Mum's Little Bear The Man With The Hebrew Bible Carolus II Dei Gratia Mag Br Fra et Hib Rex Grandad Dunham’s Flight Simulator 1 Brown's Self-Interpreting Family Bible Tips, Ships and Executorships Haunted Houses Drunk Penistone The Restless Friend   Teenage Mums Childhood Gram Motherem 1 Dad’s Thursday Helper Ivy Little Ships My Picture Book of Ships Donkey Stone Crossbar Excursions In praise of bicycles Cartophilic Concerns Old Tools The Old Apple Tree  M Dunham Are Crap Trump Haley Paley Snow on the Ground  We Know Where You’re From Colours I See With Get back on t’land whe’re y’belong Talk like a pirate Hornby ‘O’ Gauge - and revisited Philately will get you nowhere Be Prepared Plums   How Well Do You Know Morse Code?  Back In Time For The Weekend 1 Dad’s 1950s Films Tour de Yorkshire  Great Yarmouth 1960 The day we saw the Queen Mary sail  Teenage Years Airfix Modelling The Yellow Shed Developing, Printing and a trip to London Doing the Pools Reel-to-Reel Recordings Rather a studious kind of boy Lookin’ for a ‘feet’ Knockout, Knowledge and Arthur Mee Home Chemistry and Explosives Precursors School Chemistry School Metalwork School Woodwork  A Silly Christmas Love Story Tackling Rugby Jim Laker, Mr. Ellis and the Eagle Annual In England They Eat Cat Food Votre Billet, Monsieur? Belgian Youth Abroad Peyton Place and Top Deck Shandy 1966 The Great Cigarette Machine Robbery Mists: a tale for Halloween Teenage ‘X’ Certificate Hedge Trimmer Safety 1968 Hornsea Pottery   Playing With Dictionaries Beer Mats  Late Teens and Early Twenties Articled Clerk Where were you? Easter 1971 The Goole to Leeds Train Agents of Maths Destruction  A family tragedy Vulgar Money Bags

Jokers Wild  Back In Time For Tea Playlist: Fixing a Hole Heathkit AD-27  The Ghost of Airmyn Crossings The Real Marigold Hotel Partners and Seniors Twelve Balls 250 Words a Minute  The Play That Goes Wrong Posters on the Wall Brendan and the Shared House Old and New Cars The Phone Phreak The Vauxhall Griffin  Ram Weekend in College Petrol Rationing Kinder Scout Ray Gosling's Goole The Old House One Man's Week 1974  Not The Best Policy Brian Cant and Play Away The Exorcist 2 Back In Time For The Weekend 2 Strange Brew (Back in Time 3) Eric Kershaw’s Guitar Class Road to the Isles The Ascent of Man  Lytton Strachey Later Help, my courgette looks like a duck!   Keith Richard’s Lost Weekend Bonking ‘A’ Level English 1977 ‘A’ Level Geography 1977 Recording Artiste Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny  Philip Larkin’s Foot The Mighty Micro Jumped Down Catholics Top of the Pops 1983 Rewriting Rewritten Writing VAX and VAXen  Talbot Samba Every Car We’ve Owned Castleford   A Tale of Two Tea Pots  From Ferrybridge to Finland The Wrong Door Hi there Duggy! Significant Plagiarism Detected   The Commercialisation of Universities Research Before The Internet 1 Not Seeing Pink Recent Köhler’s Apes Stair Rail Lonely Brown Hair  Checked Out Siemens A55 Doorstep Deliveries Downtown Dill in Mustard Sauce People who can't say 'ul   The Morecambe and Wise IRA Sketch My IKEA Bekant Sit/Stand Desk Self-Doubt and Imposter Syndrome Blessed By Snowdrops   A Birthday Surprise Does Anyone Want Some Drinks?  Get Tret Better  Limerick Leanings Half Length and Mrs. Rat Poison Petrol Cans  Parking Machine Tickets Kitchens Old and New Off Topic and Technical Adsense, Blogger and YouTube Adsense Revisited Side by Side Images in Blogger Alt-0247 and Rule The Riddle of the £30 Restaurant Bill Supermarket Loyalty Badge Scheme Trump and Tusk   This Hi-de-Hi Government  Some Memorable Posts Blocked!

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¹ these four items were reposted by Smorgasbord Blog Magazine in June 2019 
² this item was reposted by beetleypete in September 2019