Author: Paul Ariss
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This coming Friday I will be moving out of the house that I have lived in since I was eight years old. The biggest part of my lifetime has been spent within these walls and I am the only one of my family still living here. It feels like the right time; I of course…
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My grandfather Gordon Ariss from Birmingham UK, boarded the ship HMT Rohna on the 25th November 1943, along with 1,981 American soldiers. The next day the ship was attacked by a wave of German aircraft. They appeared to have weathered the attack until they were hit by a recently devised radio controlled bomb. It proved…
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Currently my blogging, be it publishing or reading, is struggling as my house move comes closer. But you’ve all been there right? Long periods of little happening and then suddenly everything comes at once and you feel as though you still have mountains of stuff to work through and fitting in any creative pursuit feels…
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Any creative process can be a question of trial and error, and that includes blogs. Not many of us write a piece in one flow, make a little tweak before considering it good enough to go and excitedly click ‘publish’. Well some may, but they have clearly made a pact with the devil. Or they…
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A local cinema years in decay now refurbished, re-loved, and ready to open it’s doors again For Debbie’s One Word Sunday
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All of us, myself included, to some level like to cultivate a musical identity that is eclectic, knowledgeable and a little edgy. Oh we’re in sync with what is happening right now. Too right we are. We may not like it, we may not get it, but we like people to know we are aware…
SONGS AND SCRIPTS AND DUNKING BISCUITS 