Keith Dersley
Chats in the Time of Covid: #13
They said on ‘You Must Remember This’, a podcast about Hollywood, that Van Johnson hated to leave the studio at the end of a day’s...
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Keith Dersley
Sep 25, 20202 min
Chats in the Time of Covid, #12
It stood to reason we had to get mobile, we were like a rat with no legs in the street. We were carless. The smelly, polluting automobile...
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Keith Dersley
Jul 17, 20202 min
Chats in the Time of Covid, #11
Can’t even share my YouTube videos with Mum, because we can’t get into the Care Home. The only way would be to get beside her and show...
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Keith Dersley
Jul 10, 20202 min
Chats in the Time of Covid, #10
What priceless privileges (as we now see them), a generation, or a civilisation, has lost through the effects of Covid-19. Great...
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Keith Dersley
Jul 3, 20203 min
Chats in the Time of Covid, #9
Wednesday 1.VII.2020 Got, apart from a few pieces of tinkering, two podcasts of dining room chat in the can: Red Wine Dialogues. We’ve...
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Keith Dersley
Jun 27, 20202 min
Chats in the Time of Covid, #8
Friday 26.VI.2020 It’s the last Friday of the month, which means Stand & Deliver. On the wings of Zoom we will meet the crowd from...
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Keith Dersley
Jun 19, 20202 min
Chats in the Time of Covid, #7
Had a new poem, to which I added chords and the title ‘Sky at Night’. (This was in honour of Bob Ash, the stargazer who used to live on...
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Keith Dersley
Jun 5, 20203 min
Chats in the Time of Covid, #6
A friend is launching his poetry book on the latest online craze, Zoom. This is the same software our coach uses when he supervises us...
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Keith Dersley
May 28, 20202 min
Chats in the Time of Covid, #5
No 6:30 walk this morning. Breakfast in bed. Stayed there listening to a podcast about Billy the Kid, then one about the Royals. I’ve got...
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Keith Dersley
May 21, 20202 min
Chats in the Time of Covid, #4
Over the last three years or so I’ve been wary of bus rides because I’d had some bouts of flu that hung around for a couple of months. I...
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Keith Dersley
May 14, 20201 min
3 Squibs for Delectating in
Thought I would try a few pieces of poesy for this blog post, see how they go. After that, who knows? You like 'em? * * * * * * BURSARY...
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Keith Dersley
May 8, 20202 min
Chats in the Time of Covid, #3
What about the ‘act’ in the time of Covid? Plenty of time to practise and strum the gee-tar, but by the time we can go back to the...
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Keith Dersley
May 4, 20202 min
Chats in the Time of Covid, #2
Put my seven favourite books on Facebook, the covers anyway, sans comment or review, in seven days as requested by Pauline Diamond. The...
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Keith Dersley
Apr 30, 20202 min
Chats in the Time of Covid, #1
I bought a brass key gadget that you can use to turn door handles, type on keyboards, write on screens, etc., so you don’t have to touch...
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Keith Dersley
Apr 22, 20202 min
Guest Blog
The print run was small and done with crayons: it numbered all of one.
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Keith Dersley
Jan 31, 20202 min
Just a Couple of Bards
Unlike Uncle Bill, Stalky, Tango, or Piggy, our English teacher, Neil Salmon, didn't have a nickname. He was respected and liked. He used...
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Keith Dersley
Jan 17, 20203 min
Ready Steady Go (2)
‘If Rosemary shows up too, that’ll be great,’ said Tony tentatively. ‘Don’t forget, boys, the ladies can be unpredictable,’ said Teddy ‘I...
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Keith Dersley
Jan 10, 20203 min
Ready Steady Go
Friday night Tony had a shave and shower and reached for his jacket. ‘Ready Steady Go!’ had just finished on ITV. Gene Pitney, in a...
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Keith Dersley
Jan 3, 20204 min
Champion? Champion of What?
The summer after leaving Morland Road Primary School our class was getting ready to go on to Northgate Grammar, Landseer Road, Nacton...
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Keith Dersley
Dec 20, 20193 min
Stan Hewett, part 2
They had a whole gallery of people ready to take the stage of Ipswich’s #NewWolseyTheatre and pay tribute to Peter Hewett, from the...
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