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Site Structure I’ve broken down my life into specific themes or topics. For example. My autobiography entries span several time periods we might describe as fundamental paradigm shifts in my life. (Life one, life two, etc) There are other periods of my life worthy of entry including the vast array of hobbies, passions and past-times … Read more

This opening paragraph will need further editing to make it more succinct and give it more flow and meaning but, for now, (just to get the bullet points onto this page), the following will do. I’ve had an amazing life … with experiences ranging from the sublime to the bizarre, surviving a surreal occult based … Read more

C & J From diary Compared with now, our lives were simple and for me, the joy of meeting someone so, so special transformed my own life. We enjoyed a passionate and emotional relationship and we were able to share every aspect of life together. It seems utterly unbelievable now but when we moved into … Read more

I could not have known or seen it save from the vantage point of experience and my later years but I have balanced my life and continue to balance my life, not by weighing my character or psychology in real time but by referring to the life chapters I have experienced and lived these last … Read more

Ouija and the occult I know. It’s crazy, isn’t it? I’m 8 years old … and sharing coaches, travelling the UK to spiritual “Greater World” conferences (hosted by a then already elderly man called Harry Edwards) Alternately, I’m quietly munching packets of Golden Wonder crisps, sucking exotic flavours of Hubbly Bubbly through a straw while … Read more

Somerset roots I guess this section of the website is a call out, a nod or message to individuals I grew up with a very long time ago … (Pause) Goodness … if I had a Time Machine … Well … a better one anyway! No matter. I have YOU so I can use this … Read more

Online life In many ways, this page, (and certainly the accompanying pages relating to Beach elsewhere on this site), represents the most important and fundamental component of my whole enduring existence these last 20+ years because, well, without Beach, (an online persona I created to escape my spiralling out of control real life), I would … Read more

The following WILL be decanted down into brief bullet points but, before that process can happen, I have to write a BURST of info, (below), that will be the source of some later editing. THUS, although the following is expansive, a later edit should decant my words into … err … less words! So … … Read more

I had never intended or wanted this website to be a posthumous post mortem of my tedious cancer experience of the last few years and, so far, as of September 2023, have not allowed my physical or psychological prodrome or early symptoms interfere with the spirit or demeanour of this site BUT, well, I guess … Read more

Father Revisiting and reading this page again, (after writing the original body of text), I confess to feeling a little bit disconcerted that I ever found the need to bring down my father’s character in the manner I have expressed below but such feelings are, kind of, irrelevant because I am recalling and writing down … Read more