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Sikes, Chapter 19: Mr Charles Dickens - June 23rd, 1849
A few weeks later, Lucy and I were able to enjoy a week together in the area around the Regent’s Park, where we sat and chatted, took tea and strolled…
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The Market Diaries, 20th July 2025
It’s been a while since I did one of these, what with one thing and another - mainly the crab that took up residence in my bowels.
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Sikes, Chapter 18. The Reading
I travelled to Lucy’s home in Richmond to see her this time.
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Jesus the Grocer
This is another story about the Good Lord, who, at His pleasure, likes to take visits to his creation in the form of one of the created, to taste and to…
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Meg
This is something that happened to me on the market recently and involves a woman we used to see regularly wandering about, one of the many who come in…
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Chapter 17, Molly. 2nd June, 1849
Molly Elliot is a stout woman ...
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June 2025

What a Drag it is Getting Old, Part 3
There’s a certain kind of camaraderie in a surgical recovery ward.
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Chapter 16. William Fairchild
It was with a heavy heart that I met Lucy the following day to report this latest news.
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What a Drag it is Getting Old, part II.
Alive!
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Chapter 15, Mary Swindells - 18th May, 1849
And now, we really had reached a dead end.
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What a Drag it is Getting Old
Part 1 - Adventures up the bum
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Diagnosis
When I first had the diagnosis - bowel cancer - I had a writer friend of mine say, ‘Oooh, are you going to write about it?
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