Category: Dedications

chilling with a sweet rum punch

Lockdown Day 47: Friday 8th May 2020 Don was shot on a visit to Trinidad after decades in London, unintended victim of a local beef, just sitting around enjoying life, chilling with a sweet rum punch. Wrong place, wrong time.   Kriis trashed his fucking ridiculous Maclaren F1 V12 a couple of years later at […]

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Live to Ride

Lockdown Day 35: Sunday 26th April, 2020 Despite the blood loss and bone-mangling injuries, Jay survived the crash. The club held a number of blood runs and most of the chapter contributed. He lost his left leg below the knee and his right leg above. With the help of the club the boys in the […]

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still she lights my way

Lockdown Day 27: Saturday 18th April, 2020    Angela died of a heroin overdose at the age of twenty, my beautiful, broken sweet angel. I was barely sixteen. I hate, yet pity, junkies to this day.   No-one in my family and none of my friends except Kit ever knew. Some suspected and some, I […]

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ghosting a Piobaireachd

Lockdown Day 17: Wednesday 8th April, 2020 I feel old recalling these times, caressing these long-frond memories with their tentacle temptations, traps and trials. I wonder what fuels these musings? Guilt? I thought it long-gone, passed with the death of Uncle Jack. Love? We may have loved yet never been in love, but we will […]

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