SONGS AND SCRIPTS AND DUNKING BISCUITS
Every day tales of a winging-it creative
Author: Paul Ariss
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With more excitement than is probably necessary, I have just placed an order for my 2024 Day by Day Diary. It will be arriving with great ceremony, tomorrow. Or more likely I’ll get a text telling me it’s been un-ceremonially left in the garage. Normally I prefer to choose my diary by buying it from…
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On Wednesday of this week, October 4th, the rail workers in the UK decided to have a ‘day of action’, an ironic term of phrase for a national strike. Pretty much all the trains in the country didn’t run at all. This post isn’t about the strike, although I do broadly support their issues to…
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For a few, brief, yet glorious moments I stood alone in Sun Studios with Elvis Presley
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How can you be friends with someone for years, maybe even decades, and not realise uncomfortable aspects of their personalities? Their views on the world, their take on current world events based on their prejudices? From what I’ve discovered over recent years, it’s very easy. I know a handful of people I am friends with…
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Over the years I have proudly developed the invaluable skill of nodding knowingly whilst someone explains something that I have not the faintest idea about. You must have been there yourself, the subtle social art of giving off signals that you get what it being said to you whilst hoping to gleam a little something…
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What is it like not to have any ambition? How much does it matter? Is ambition overrated? Is it not easier just to have an easy life were the boat is never rocked and we just accepted our lot in life? I know someone that I see most days; let’s call him Kevin, who doesn’t…