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Meet Rafferty
Meet Rafferty. Rafferty is a dog. Sadly, Rafferty is not my dog but he is a dog of spirit and character. In a park near to where I live in Southampton there is a coffee stall that is literally little more than a tuk tuk with a coffee machine. If you are not familiar with…
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Happy Christmas!
I’m a traditionalist. I put my Christmas decorations up on Christmas Eve whilst listening to 9 Lessons and Carols from King’s College Cambridge. It always begins with a solo from Once in Royal David’s City. I have a strong memory as a teenager being driven by my dad as we listened to the service on…
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Three for the Road (Notes from the Beagle’s Logbook)
They say all good things come in threes…here are a trio of white-line adventures straight out of our travel journals. An Impromptu Ride East After a few days in San Francisco back in ’79, Neville and I, two lads short on cash and wheels, figured it was high time to keep our cross-country adventure rolling.…
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The Grafton Barber
My imagination had crafted a somewhat unrealistic cross between the barber Floyd and a character from the film ‘The Quiet Man.’
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Muscle Memory
There is something almost holy about stumbling across a classic car show on a lazy Saturday afternoon.
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Presidential Pardon
The passing of President Carter at the end of last year has set me thinking about the world as I knew it in 1979 when I skipped lightly through immigration at JFK and entered the wide blue yonder beyond that is otherwise known as America. This is not a political blog so I shall leave…
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Sonoran Desert Allure
Though spirits drift, cloaked in desert patina, Scorched passion under lunar arena. Let your gnarled branches roam, For here, I’ve made my home!
The American Beagle 