Chapter 16
Gainful Employment
‘But George Orwell had something to fall back on. He had money behind him’.
I didn’t want to admit it but I could see that my Dad might be right. Washing up day in day out might eventually get boring.
But what about W. H. Davies? ‘The Autobiography of...
Coastal Communities Minister Jake Berry MP has announced that the Weymouth Quay Regeneration Project has been successful in bidding for £3.79m worth of investment. This money will come from the Coastal Communities Fund .
Coastal Community Team
Weymouth’s Coastal Community team – including the Weymouth and Portland Chamber of Commerce, Weymouth...
Phenomenal. They may choke the atmosphere but they are a thing of wonder and a reminder of bygone days.
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BY ANDREW CHRISTOPHER MILLER
Chapter 14
Fifty Miles is a Long Way
‘Let the word go forth from this time and place ... ‘
President Kennedy’s rhetoric had held my attention and fired my ambition in a way that the crusty and pompous tones of our own country’s great and good never would.
‘...
BY ANDREW CHRISTOPHER MILLER
Chapter 12
Mentors for the Atomic Age
My earliest years at school and the final one or two stood out as exciting excursions through a stunning landscape of human accomplishment and knowledge. The intervening decade or more, by contrast, seemed like an unending trudge through featureless marsh and...
BY ANDREW CHRISTOPHER MILLER
Chapter 10
Like Survivors
Ricky was particularly excited about the guns. The rifles. Not any old air rifles like the older kids around here had or the ones on the stall at the Fair, but proper weapons. He had seen them lined up in the cadet store with...
BY ANDREW CHRISTOPHER MILLER
Chapter 8
Pecking Order
When I was nine years old my father surprised me by agreeing to the conversion of half of our shed into a pigeon loft, an action forbidden under the terms of our council tenancy. The shed was partitioned with wooden struts covered with chicken...
American novelist Jacquelyn Mitchard reaches out to support a debut novelist who is attending the London Book Fair 12–14 March 2019
Dorchester novelist, Gail Aldwin will be at the London Book Fair with Victorina Press the publisher of her debut novel The String Games. This is the story of the abduction of...
With as many as 40,000 visitors enjoying three nights of extraordinary digital light art spectacles the second Light Up Poole festival has been hailed a “giant leap” forward.
“It has been wonderful, far beyond anything we could have hoped for,” says Libby Battaglia of festival directors Audacious.
“Last year we showed...
BY ANDREW CHRISTOPHER MILLER
Chapter 5
Every Sparrow Fallen
Lizards, snakes, frogs and newts.
We were custodians of the hedgerows, the waterlogged bomb site and the waste ground. Inside the old air raid shelter, erratic movements up the wall. In the dark, among the rubble underfoot, something slithering resentfully away. Turning over large...
