Contents
Acknowledgements
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King’s Mill
Twice round me
At the Doctors
Roofer & Son
Comprehensive
Brian
Whitby
Barbara and Derek, Derek and Barbara
On First Hearing ‘Careless Whisper’
Beyond Harlech
Bike Ride
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It’d Been Round the Clock, Twice Maybe, and the Guy 30 Halifax 31 ECG 32 Weatherman 33 Room 34 Gerard Benson 35 Poetry Society 36 Pneumonia 37 Phone Call 38 Alfreton and Mansfield Parkway, June evening 39 ‘To the Waterfalls’ 40 Mini Van 41 Racedown 42 Ullswater 43 The Struggle 44 Pigeons 45 Alfie is a Train in the Duck-Duck Park 47