Kate Clarke
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
- Feb 11
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 4 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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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Kate Clarke
- Jul 8, 2020
- 3 min
The Good Ones Dream Of Their Grandmother
I’ve started to notice women in the supermarket queue who wear a large wedding ring on a chain around their neck. It’s a little moment of...
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Kate Clarke
- Jul 5, 2020
- 1 min
Proper Poets
There are some words only poets use, in order to sound like ‘proper poets’, aren’t there? They always set my teeth on edge: Shards...
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