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The Kick-About #14 ‘Boogie Doodle’
The previous edition of the Kick-About featured a rather precarious vision of a civilisation held together by threads. I won’t labour this analogy any further, but suffice to say civilsation feels a good deal more… Read more
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Tankerton Slopes, November #4
A final batch of martime tuftiness from my trip out to Tankerton Slopes at the beginning of the week. I was just thinking how some of these would make for particularly cruel jigsaw puzzles… Read more
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Chimera Book 1 / Chapter 10 – Caramels & Coconut Cracknell
It’s 4 o’clock, there’s a nip in the air, and with a little bit of luck there’s a slice of cake nearby. Time then to rejoin Kyp Finnegan and Atticus Weft in their continuing adventures… Read more
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Tankerton Slopes, November #3 (2020)
Another celebration of the always-surprising subtleties of texture, tone and colour in the everyday scrub of another patch of local wild plants and grasses. As I was taking these images, I could smell the sea… Read more
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Dan Snelgrove: “There’ll Never Be Another Girl Like Stacey!”
Chapter 9 of Chimera Book 1 – entitled Captain Toothache & The Silver Locket – takes place in a locked room, with Kyp Finnegan, the book’s 8 eight year old hero, and Atticus Weft, a… Read more
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Throwback Friday #28 Weak Kneed (2003)
It’s a lesser known fact about me that I’m sometimes known to write a song or two when the mood strikes. That mood used to strike much more often, I think because I didn’t second… Read more
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Tankerton Slopes, November #2 (2020)
More salted, windswept skeins and matted hummocks on the sea-facing rise of Tankerton Slopes. Read more
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Phil Cooper / Painting Chimera #5
Chapter 9 of Chimera Book 1 is a very important one to me. I took the decision at the outset of the very first draft of Chimera that the reader’s first experience of the novel… Read more
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Tankerton Slopes, November #1 (2020)
A short walk along Whitstable’s blustery sea front and you arrive at Tankerton Slopes, a long steep rise of scrubby grass, hog’s fennel and brambles. In the depths of winter, kids sledge down the slopes,… Read more
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Chimera Book 1 / Chapter 9 – Captain Toothache & The Silver Locket
It’s 4pm on Sunday afternoon, which means, here in Red’s Kingdom, it’s time once again to gather around the wireless (or more probably your smart phone!) and continue Kyp Finnegan’s adventures in the curious, fantastical… Read more
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