Tag: travel
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 04, 2007 12:44 PM EDT --
Farewell Lauderdale Tower
In the summer of 1979, following a year at London's prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama, my career as an acting student came to an end. I don't recall exactly . . .
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August 02, 2007 09:31 AM EDT --
The Siege of La Rochelle
If my memory serves me faithfully, some weeks after returning from the Ocean Youth Club trip to the Baltic in the summer of 1975, I sailed with the RNR to La Rochelle on the Atlantic . . .
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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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December 04, 2006 07:47 AM EST --
I underwent my final RNR voyage, destination Ostend in Belgium, towards the end of the summer of 1977. My best RNR oppo Colin was sadly not onboard, but thankfully a new close seafaring friend was. His . . .
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July 27, 2007 06:17 PM EDT --
Introduction
This third story in a series of seventies-themed pieces was forged in February-March 2006 from scribblings committed to a notebook in 1978-'79, and concerning events that took place in . . .
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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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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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November 03, 2006 03:08 PM EST --
Taken verbatim from a projected novel written sometime in the mid to late 1980s, but then largely destroyed:
1) Scene from a Paris Brasserie
I took the Metro
to Montparnasse-Bienvenue,
where I slowly . . .
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November 04, 2006 09:06 PM EST --
The following is an account concocted as accurately as possible, given that I was looking back at some three and a half decades ago, of how I came to be conditioned by my environment in the early 1970s, . . .
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November 04, 2006 09:11 PM EST --
By any standards, Pangbourne College was a deeply Christian school, with regular Divinity classes, daily prayers, and compulsory chapel on Sunday morning. Moreover while at college I was baptised and confirmed . . .
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December 04, 2006 07:16 AM EST --
If my fifty year old memory serves me faithfully, it was some weeks after returning from the Ocean Youth Club trip to the Baltic in the summer of 1975 that I sailed with the RNR to La Rochelle on the Atlantic . . .
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December 04, 2006 07:20 AM EST --
1976 was the year in which I came increasingly under the sway of the fifties, a decade far less congenial to my rarified tastes than the Bright Young 1920s, and yet I was thirsty for change. Thence, inchmeal . . .
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December 04, 2006 07:33 AM EST --
77 was a darker year than its immediate predecessors as I see it, it having been marked by the ascendancy of Punk, a musical and cultural movement which perhaps somewhat hampered Rock's uneven progress . . .
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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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December 05, 2007 10:20 AM EST --
Introduction
An initial draft of "Gilded Youth at the Guildhall School" was published at the Blogster.com website on the 1st of July 2006, since which time it's undergone considerable . . .
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November 30, 2006 08:12 PM EST --
1975, my second and last year as a dandy in the land of blue denim was one of the most eventful and felicitous years of my late teens and early twenties. It was the year I went back to school, which is . . .
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