Author Archives: odeboyz

My Liver and Me

Posted on June 9, 2015 by odeboyz

I give my liver hell But it forgives me once again My life is drinking (Chris)

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Micro-Brewing

Posted on June 9, 2015 by odeboyz

“We were trying to come up with a new beer,” Brett Joyce of the Rogues Ales craft brewery told reporters in Newport Oregon, “using a different type of yeast. We tried to harvest new yeast strains from the hops in … Continue reading →

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Housing

Posted on June 5, 2015 by odeboyz

1972  to 1990 Note: All names  have been changed to save rows and recriminations. I had been married to Angela for eighteen years and thought we had a good life together, but out of the blue one Saturday, a mutual … Continue reading →

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Racked by Indecision

Posted on June 2, 2015 by odeboyz

Along with the rest of our gang, Dave Rosewarne and I had idled away most of our Saturday afternoon in Hilldene* Café opposite the pet shop. I had smoked a joint or two out the back but Dave, the most … Continue reading →

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A Fatal Problem for Induction

Posted on June 2, 2015 by odeboyz

The sun will rise in the east tomorrow. (Chris)  

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A Pyrrhic* Victory: David Cameron, May 2015

Posted on May 29, 2015 by odeboyz

David Cameron’s Conservative party won the British general election on 7th May 2015. This victory ended five years of coalition government with the Liberal Democrats. Cameron has freed himself from the constraints of coalition partnership with the Liberal Democrats but … Continue reading →

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Metropolis: A Wordless Poem

Posted on May 26, 2015 by odeboyz
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The Nobel Peace Prize as Satire

Posted on May 26, 2015 by odeboyz

1973: Henry Kissinger for realising he’d lost the war South East Asia, especially Viet Nam. 2009: Barack Obama for not starting a war in his first nine months in office. (Chris)

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Old Housing and Working Conditions

Posted on May 21, 2015 by odeboyz

1953 to 1963 Gibson Square Islington. Raised from 3 years old, in what was then a slum area – a large ten roomed Regency terraced house situated on one of Islington’s now prestigious squares, nearly each room let out to … Continue reading →

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Fairy Elephant

Posted on May 18, 2015 by odeboyz

There I am, in my bed All warm and snug & cosy When at 5:15 it has to be said My world is anything, but rosy. The rhythmic pounding of your feet Wakens me with a puzzled start While I … Continue reading →

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