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Kate Clarke
Nov 12, 20222 min read
Love and Commerce
Well, we are trying to move to Dorset but Santander Bank seems to be working on a hunch that Ronny is a money launderer rather than a...
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Kate Clarke
Aug 14, 20221 min read
I Like This Girl
I wish more people could do this. I think most of us know we are being cheated. The game of 'who can hold the ugliest note for the...
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Kate Clarke
Jul 27, 20221 min read
Despite Everything
When I’m lying on the floor, rubbing her belly, Vera never wonders: "What exactly is she after?" When I put chicken in the slow cooker...
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Kate Clarke
Feb 11, 20222 min read
Music Wednesday
I had those videos digitised The ones that sat in a slouching stack. “Yeah, I must get around to that," you said. Too late – they’re...
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Kate Clarke
Aug 15, 20212 min read
Gladiolus
As soon as they came into season Terry would buy gladiolus - for me, for the house, for those audacious colours, but mostly because they...
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Kate Clarke
Jun 24, 20213 min read
Steve Gibbons
There's a petition going around to get Steve Gibbons a star on the Birmingham Walk of Fame. While they are at it can someone get him a...
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Kate Clarke
May 15, 20212 min read
Arrest This Moment
I'm reading that book about Michael Marra that I bought for you but you hadn't yet read. 'From Kate, Easter 2018' - you always wrote the...
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Kate Clarke
Apr 22, 20214 min read
Cal Vincent
Terry wrote this piece on his website, March 2, 2017. Back in the day, Cal looked like Elvis Presley's older brother who might have been...
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Kate Clarke
Feb 17, 20212 min read
A Red Coat, A Red Apple
I've spent a few days back and forth to the hospital. It's the same one Terry and I went when he had a heart issue a couple of years ago....
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Kate Clarke
Feb 13, 20212 min read
We're All Idiots
I've been going through some photographs, looking for something. There are hundreds of them, all carefully archived and dated - Terry had...
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Kate Clarke
Feb 3, 20211 min read
Jack and that Beanstalk
I don't know why I think a song is a sacred thing, to be elevated and adored above almost everything else. Particularly a profane song....
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Kate Clarke
Jan 3, 20211 min read
Night Ride to Birmingham
Just received a letter from someone Terry had good times with 50 years ago. They drove to Birmingham together in '68, in Dave's dad's...
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Kate Clarke
Dec 16, 20202 min read
Jewellery, Windows and Wine
If you don't get a Christmas card from me I can only apologise. I have never sent one in my life. Terry did all of that stuff. He was the...
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Kate Clarke
Nov 16, 20201 min read
Those Clarke Boys
I may have said this before, I lose track. When Terry's son, Joseph, visited us, there was a ritual. They would come into the house,...
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Kate Clarke
Nov 5, 20202 min read
Trailers For Sale or Rent
I don't do much socialising. My mother worries about it. If I go to a gathering it tends to be a business event and I'm there for my...
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Kate Clarke
Aug 29, 20202 min read
Cashing in Chips That Aren't Mine
There are people in this shabby world - some I have never met, some I have met for the briefest of times, and some who I have spent scant...
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Kate Clarke
Jul 31, 20203 min read
A Stranger To My Birth
I've been listening to Honky Tonk Masquerade. It is one of those albums I hadn't dared to approach since Terry died. He was so into Joe...
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Kate Clarke
Jul 28, 20202 min read
The Full Neil Diamond
I dreamed about Terry again. He was sitting in my mum's sunny kitchen, singing us Neil Diamond songs. I heard the whole of Signs,...
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Kate Clarke
Jul 13, 20202 min read
As Sweet as New Tobacco
That Western jacket I have been obsessing about? The last time Terry wore it was at The Luminaire, in Kilburn High Road. He and Wes...
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