Tag: history
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Hallbury Summer – Episode Nine Silver’d in the Moon’s Eclipse
The story so far: While job-seeking in town Joe Palliser meets Emma, his best friend’s wife, and is reminded of his feelings for her. When she abjures him to return to London he lets slip that he cannot, which Emma takes to mean he has separated from his wife, just as he – in her […]
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Hallbury Summer – Episode Four Lone Wolf
The Story so Far: Succumbing to the temptations of Ned Barker’s famous beer at The Kings Head pub Joseph Palliser has lunched not wisely but too well. As he relaxes beneath an alcoholic haze of beer and warm sun in his Uncle’s garden, he recalls the time his younger brother Michael became ill, and the […]
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Obituary for a Joker
A brief note but I have to do this. Five days ago Alan Irwin Abel passed away. Really. Now I’m guessing if you live in America most of you know, but in case it slipped past you, or if you live elsewhere in the world where his death does not seem to have received coverage, […]