Category Archives: Londonish life

Dear Kayla

Posted on July 19, 2015 by titflasher

Dear Kayla I’m using your real name in the vain and pointless hope that one day you will read this. I know you are about 10/11 years old in 2015, that you like pretty things, startlingly adult perfume, that you … Continue reading →

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How to live with nine cats and not lose your mind …

Posted on August 11, 2013 by titflasher

People ask me what it is like to live with nine (Nine? NINE? NNNINE? Yeah, nine.) cats … here is a snapshot .. 1.  Forget about greeting any visitors normally. Because those people who wish to sell you things (cheap … Continue reading →

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For Greg and all who loved him

Posted on July 26, 2013 by titflasher

Last weekend I lost a friend. He slipped through my hands just at the last moment, at the point where things were so bad for him, they simply had to get better. He had what I believed to be an … Continue reading →

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Why wouldn’t you?

Posted on June 13, 2013 by titflasher

Today I signed a cheque. I sat down at work, took it out of the card that was sent to me, waited for a second, took a deep breath, looked at it, and signed it. In signing my name next … Continue reading →

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Grumpy

Posted on May 19, 2013 by titflasher

I had spent a good four years trying to catch him.  I glimpsed him first up the road, playing with his friend, a big ginger cat who looked domesticated on first sight but who also resisted all temptations to come … Continue reading →

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Compo

Posted on March 9, 2013 by titflasher

We called him Compo.  His real name was Peter but as we already had one of those in the shop, we needed to differentiate him from the other, who was rapidly falling out of favour with us.  We knew he … Continue reading →

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Cats are weird … just like humans

Posted on February 17, 2013 by titflasher

Cats seem to live a whole secret life sometimes, apart from us, full of their own rituals and behaviours.  It is something I  have taken a long time to realise but they truly are not just eating and shitting machines … Continue reading →

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In the dank, damp grey of this afternoon, I stood today and watched a woman fall apart.  She was being gently surrounded by security guards.  They let her approach me, she asked me clumsily for a light, grabbing the lighter … Continue reading →

Posted on January 8, 2013 by titflasher | 15 Comments

Christmas

Posted on December 24, 2012 by titflasher

No time of year is as emotive as this one. For those of us who had less than loving childhoods, Christmas, with all its expectations of emotion, love, excitement and presents, more often than not descended into chaos, abuse, pain … Continue reading →

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And so …

Posted on November 4, 2012 by titflasher

Having had a small hiatus from blogging due to life being busy as hell, I miss writing. I write for work, write messages, write instructions but … putting experience down in words, describing how I feel, what I live, is … Continue reading →

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