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About Dick Jones

I'm a post-retirement Drama teacher, currently working part-time. I have a grown-up son and daughter, three grandchildren and three young children from my second marriage. I write - principally poetry but prose too, both fitfully published. My poetry collection Ancient Lights is published by Phoenicia Publishing (www.phoeniciapublishing.com) and my translation of Blaise Cendrars' 'Trans-Siberian Prosody and Little Jeanne from France' (illustrated by my friend, the artist, writer and long-time blogger Natalie d'Arbeloff) is published by Old Stile Press (www.oldstilepress.com). I play bass guitar & bouzouki in the song-based acoustic/electric trio Moorby Jones, playing entirely original material. https://www.facebook.com/moorbyjones?ref=aymt_homepage_panel http://www.moorbyjones.net/) https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=MOORBY+JONES spotify:artist:07MDD5MK9MnRGSEZwbsas9 I have a dormant blog with posts going back to 2004 at Dick Jones' Patteran Pages - http://patteran.typepad.com - and I'm a radio ham. My callsign is G0EUV

Posted on Aug 6, 2015 by Dick Jones
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Posted on Aug 4, 2015 by Dick Jones

Age is opportunity no less, Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Morituri Salutamus In his book Promises to Keep: Thoughts … Continue reading →

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A PLACE CALLED ENGLAND.

Posted on Jul 29, 2015 by Dick Jones

At this time of the year in the countryside, given a couple of days break in the cloud layer and temperatures that slip a notch above the seasonal norm, something fleeting but magical might be witnessed. Defying the driest of … Continue reading →

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A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself. TOM STOPPARD. Sometimes I turn, there’s someone there, other time it’s only me. BOB DYLAN. The original tagline for my first blog, Dick … Continue reading →

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MEANWHILE, BACK IN THE REAL WORLD…

Posted on Jul 28, 2015 by Dick Jones

Man is a self-balancing, 28-jointed adapter-base biped, and electro-chemical reduction plant, integral with the segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent activation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62,000 miles of capillaries, … Continue reading →

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THE TRANS-SIBERIAN ARRIVES AT BLOOMSBURY…

Posted on Jul 27, 2015 by Dick Jones

Press Release following the ‘Trans-Sib’ book launch. On Monday evening, June 6th, at about 7.30, after months of stop-start journeying, always trailing a good head of steam but sometimes impeded by obstacles on the line, the Trans-Siberian finally arrived! Not … Continue reading →

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LOST IN A MALL

Posted on Jul 27, 2015 by Dick Jones

A man alone on an uncomfortable chair outside Jamaica Blue in the Lion’s Yard shopping mall in Cambridge. Kids & Emma roaming the denser regions of the retail jungle, hunting & gathering while I muse. Current topic: do they make … Continue reading →

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TWEAKING…

Posted on Jul 26, 2015 by Dick Jones

A bit of design tweaking going on. Any observations?

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BLOG REVIVAL

Posted on Jul 25, 2015 by Dick Jones

I started blogging in February 2003. In those primitive times the software was crude, cumbersome, difficult to use and unreliable. Those of us who persevered beyond an initial entry or two became accustomed to helping each other up the rockface … Continue reading →

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