Kate Clarke
Heading South
Our last day or two in the neighbourhood before we pack up these pots & pans, whippets & trinkets and head south. I find myself getting...
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Kate Clarke
- Nov 12
- 2 min
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
- Oct 3
- 1 min
Golden Hour
For all our anxiety about running out of time we spend a lot of it composing grand things in our mind that we won’t say out loud. There’s...
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Kate Clarke
- Sep 22
- 1 min
It's Four in the Moning
We were awake at 4am last night laughing about this odd addiction to sadness we have both nurtured so carefully since early childhood. I...
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Kate Clarke
- Sep 17
- 2 min
Some Came Running
We've been swapping movies. This is apt, since Kate & Ronny came in on James Grissom’s Follies of God, which is, among other things, a...
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Kate Clarke
- Aug 19
- 1 min
British Heatwave
In Maidenhead, at Heather’s flat, one rare, scorching summer - swimsuits, a paddling pool in the garden under a drooping washing line....
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Kate Clarke
- Aug 14
- 1 min
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
- 1 min
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
- Jun 27
- 1 min
Listening to John Delahunty Again
I’m listening to John again. I never knew him but I watch his step. The heart was miscarrying and defeated, but the face says he laughed...
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Kate Clarke
- Jun 14
- 2 min
Nero's Bath, Elvis, Lisa Marie
I visited the Vatican museum years ago. The orgy of wealth was shameful and I think everyone leaves the place feeling a little grubby,...
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Kate Clarke
- May 27
- 1 min
The Tennessee Two
For two people with no religion we seem to count a lot of things as holy. Dogs, kissing, sex. Clyde McPhatter and Arthur Alexander....
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Kate Clarke
- May 15
- 2 min
Gerry from Kilkee
i understand now why everyone comes home from Ireland with stories. While I was with him and Maureen in Enniskillen, Joe Corrigan...
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Kate Clarke
- May 5
- 2 min
They're All Wild Seeds Now
I'm taking to boat from Fishguard to Rosslare tomorrow. Crossing the same sea Terry crossed with his mum and dad when he was three or...
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Kate Clarke
- Apr 29
- 1 min
Sadness, Sinbad, Swiss Roll
The trick is, I suppose, not to attribute your sadness to the wrong thing. I’m not sad because of you or us, or because of waiting, or...
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Kate Clarke
- Apr 27
- 2 min
Old Ladies At Bus Stops
I am being haunted by the old ladies at bus stops again. I'm sure these women are going about their business perfectly happily, but I...
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Kate Clarke
- Mar 25
- 1 min
No Deadly Nightshade
It is no accident that Shakespeare cast Romeo and Juliet as 13 or 14-year-olds. Separation is so heavily laced with grief when you are a...
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Kate Clarke
- Mar 19
- 1 min
Heartache Spoken Here
I realise we are a grain of sand on a speck of dust but I’m beginning to think that The Universe actually does care about us. Why else...
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Kate Clarke
- Mar 17
- 1 min
Looking For Angels
I know it should bring some comfort to the grieving that perhaps life really does flash before you when you die, but it makes me a little...
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Kate Clarke
- Mar 14
- 2 min
Cowboy Man
With his body bent strangely at knee and hip and with that twisting face turned ghostly under stage lights, Lyle Lovett makes me think of...
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Kate Clarke
- Feb 13
- 1 min
St Valentine Drove a Red Continental
Norman B from Life Elsewhere radio very kindly asked me to take part in his Valentine's Day show. He quizzed a panel of arty-types about...
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