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Jul 6, 2020
3 min

gone to the dogs

My dad liked “a bet”. After work on Saturday morning, he would bike into town and head straight to the bookies (a betting shop). After...

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Will

Jun 25, 2020
3 min

the belt

Class F was not in the mood for French, which meant Mademoiselle Croissant* was having a bad day. I could feel the tension in the...

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Will

Jun 22, 2020
2 min

english

Quote from Wee Malcie …“we f*****g hate the English”. Once there was Malcolm, who everyone called “Malcie”, then he had a son who he...

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Will

Jun 18, 2020
2 min

a glasgow smile

We were about to "do a flit", a colloquial expression for stealthily leaving one's abode, usually late at night so that debtors don't...

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Will

Jun 9, 2020
2 min

entropy

Definition of my childhood: “a lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder” And then something weird happened, we...

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Will

Jun 3, 2020
3 min

let's start at the very beginning

When I was 11, do you know what I wanted for Christmas? No ... well neither did I. I thought I wanted a bike but what I really wanted,...

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