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    Music Wednesday
    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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    Gladiolus
    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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    Steve Gibbons
    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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    Arrest This Moment
    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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    Cal Vincent
    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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    A Red Coat, A Red Apple
    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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    We're All Idiots
    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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    Jack and that Beanstalk
    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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    Night Ride to Birmingham
    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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    Jewellery, Windows and Wine
    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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    Those Clarke Boys
    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,...
    100 views0 comments
    Trailers For Sale or Rent
    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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    Cashing in Chips That Aren't Mine
    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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    A Stranger To My Birth
    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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    The Full Neil Diamond
    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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    As Sweet as New Tobacco
    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...
    58 views0 comments
    The Good Ones Dream Of Their Grandmother
    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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    Proper Poets
    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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    Elvis, Terry and the Brando of Theatrical Tailoring
    Kate Clarke
    • Jul 2, 2020
    • 2 min

    Elvis, Terry and the Brando of Theatrical Tailoring

    As you know, Terry’s beautiful clothes are grieving me. There is one item in particular. A lovely, Scully Western jacket: fluid, inky...
    74 views0 comments
    People Are Stupid
    Kate Clarke
    • Jun 25, 2020
    • 1 min

    People Are Stupid

    I've been wondering why it bothers me so deeply that some folks who really should have valued Terry didn't. I'm not talking about his...
    25 views0 comments
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