Tag: london
member name: Carl Halling
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February 05, 2007 09:02 PM EST --
In late 1977, with the purpose of training to become a radio officer I joined the Merchant Navy College (in Greenhithe, Kent), the latter, no longer existent, having merged with the Thames Nautical Training . . .
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August 07, 2007 08:31 PM EDT --
Days of Greenhithe
In late 1977, with the purpose of training to become a radio officer I joined the now no longer existent Merchant Navy College in Greenhithe, Kent, which had merged with the Thames . . .
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August 03, 2007 09:35 PM EDT --
Introduction
"Genesis of a Gentleman", the first of a series of seventies-themed pieces, is an account conceived as accurately as possible of how I came to be conditioned by my environment in . . .
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August 17, 2007 09:06 PM EDT --
A Westfield Narrative 1
"Ice Spoke of the Spells of Calm" is the second in a four-part series of writings inspired by my time at Westfield College. It has been fashioned out of modified versions . . .
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May 07, 2007 12:38 AM EDT --
Introduction 1
The two “tales” that follow have been compiled using my usual creative methods exhaustively described elsewhere. They serve to provide a stark contrast between my state of being . . .
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July 26, 2007 10:03 PM EDT --
Introduction:
These first two pieces set the scene for my entire writings. Both deal with my childhood in London in the 1960s. The first was adapted from a Christian testimony dating from 2002, and published . . .
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August 12, 2007 03:13 PM EDT --
Introduction
The following short story, the last in a series of pieces based on my sixties boyhood in west London, is not so much a story, as fragments taken from spidery writings with which I filled . . .
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August 16, 2007 09:22 PM EDT --
Introduction
"West of the Fields Long Gone" has been composed of pieces from formerly published writings, including "Ice Spoke of the Spells of Calm", which was first published at . . .
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February 22, 2007 04:37 AM EST --
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December 11, 2006 07:49 PM EST --
Adapted (edited, reassembled) from a letter typed to a friend in about 1990, and concerning a series of accidents I suffered at the time, but never finished, and never sent, and recovered only recently, . . .
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August 24, 2007 07:19 AM EDT --
Introduction
"The Twilight of an Actor" existed initially as nothing more than "Such a Short Space of Time", published at the Blogster.com website on the 19th of February 2006. However, . . .
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August 28, 2007 01:31 PM EDT --
A Surrey Idyll
1975 was the year I went back to school, or rather, Brooklands, a technical college secreted within the semi-rural beauty of Weybridge in the furthermost reaches of suburban south west . . .
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January 05, 2008 06:35 AM EST --
Introduction
"Those Gambolling Baby Boomers", the first of a series of seventies-themed pieces, tells how I came to be conditioned by my environment in the early 1970s after leaving Pangbourne . . .
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December 08, 2007 01:21 PM EST --
Introduction:
These two pieces set the scene for the entire work to follow, a kind of experiment in memoir writing with a spiritual core. Both deal with my childhood in London in the 1960s. The first . . .
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March 12, 2009 09:07 AM EDT --
Sad Loves of a Seafaring Man
In late summer 1973 the minesweeper HMS Thames set out for Bordeaux in Gironde in the south west of France. It was my first voyage as an Ordinary Deckhand with the RNR . . .
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March 13, 2009 10:06 AM EDT --
Those Landmark Years
For two years I'd slavishly followed those artists who'd either predated Modernism or been part of its banquet years and beyond but in '76 a new decade, that of Brando, . . .
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December 04, 2006 01:05 PM EST --
In early 1990, I lost my position as a teacher of English as a foreign language in an Oxford Street language school where I spent almost two years, the concluding two of a decade somewhat redolent of the . . .
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December 11, 2006 03:17 PM EST --
Adapted verbatim from a short story about a childhood friend from where I used to live in Chiswick close by to Acton Green, and penned in about 1975, or '76 according to how I saw things looking back . . .
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December 11, 2006 07:35 PM EST --
Introduction
The following story is not so much a story, as fragments taken from spidery writings with which I filled four and a half pages of a school style notebook in what is likely to have been the . . .
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January 30, 2008 01:21 PM EST --
Introduction
"The Summer of Fittleton" consists of two previously published pieces in slightly modified form, these being "My Future Positively Glittered", now divided into two . . .
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