David Mathews
On doors and making up stories
See the photo? The latch, lock and handle it shows are now in your memory, as an image rather than a physical object, for you cannot see...
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David Mathews
- Dec 12, 2019
- 2 min
Fourteen men with the surname Johnson, in my order of preference
At times like this, I need diversions. Our new grandson is arriving later with his mum and dad. He’ll help for a few days, though I’m not...
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David Mathews
- Dec 3, 2019
- 2 min
On having a new profile photograph
How recent should your photo be? Actors deserve some licence, I suppose, given how ageist their trade is, though offering something that...
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David Mathews
- Oct 18, 2019
- 2 min
Once more with feeling
The NHS has given me an insight into a story I am planning. Wednesday it was. ENT surgeons, hunting for further nasty cells after a...
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David Mathews
- Oct 8, 2019
- 3 min
Mr Johnson's arrested development
Three and a half years since he began so fervently to advocate leaving the EU, Mr Johnson has come up with his first suggestion as to how...
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David Mathews
- Oct 1, 2019
- 3 min
Ultimum Fossa
Thank heavens for Sidney. If ever there was man with his feet on the ground, it’s Sid. I mention it because he was round yesterday with a...
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David Mathews
- Sep 10, 2019
- 1 min
Inspired by Shackleton and ice
Our grandchildren’s primary school in Sussex gets things just right. Last year, Ernest Shackleton and Endurance. Boring dead blokes with...
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David Mathews
- Sep 9, 2019
- 1 min
The Critic
Apropos that rather special 24 hours I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, here is our new grandson listening to one of my stories. Children...
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David Mathews
- Aug 17, 2019
- 1 min
Quite a 24 hours
First up, I lost a chunk of my left ear on Friday. Don’t get me wrong, it was no accident. It was removed with considerable grace and...
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David Mathews
- Jul 26, 2019
- 2 min
On being chosen and being pure
My distinguished psychiatrist pal, Sir Arthur Whatnot is swanning about in Biarritz. He says its faded glory makes a change from smart...
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David Mathews
- Jul 15, 2019
- 3 min
Three terrific storytellers
More summer reading for you in your deckchair or on your yacht. Three titles: two offbeat books and a gem. I have to tell someone about...
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David Mathews
- Jul 12, 2019
- 2 min
The Dawdler
'Daddy goes slow when he takes us, but you make us go fast, Mummy.' Fast? Really? The complaint had been issued by a six-year-old...
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David Mathews
- Jun 27, 2019
- 1 min
Summer reading, tears and laughter
Hot off the press, two terrific anthologies, in each of which I am delighted to have a story. Story Cities from Arachne Press (order...
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David Mathews
- Jan 3, 2019
- 1 min
Seaborne Freight ferry discovered on far side of moon.
China’s pioneering Chang'e-4 lander finds lorry-carrying ship in deserted moon crater 'Ramsgate'. Finding made by UK Department of...
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David Mathews
- Dec 31, 2018
- 1 min
To the tune of Lady Franklin's Lament
We were homeward bound one night on the deep Swinging in my hammock I fell asleep, I dreamed a dream and I thought it true Concerning...
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David Mathews
- Nov 21, 2018
- 3 min
Queue Jumpers
I inadvertently jumped the queue at our bakery yesterday, to loud complaints. ‘Who do you think you are, a Romanian?’ and ‘Watch it, lad,...
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David Mathews
- Nov 6, 2018
- 2 min
WELSH CHEMIST SHOOTS GERMAN PoWs …
… hundreds of them, in front of a door at the old distillery at Frongoch, near Bala. On 7 November my shortest of short stories tells of...
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David Mathews
- Sep 14, 2018
- 1 min
Suspension
I have been suspended. The shame of it. I’ve never been suspended before, not being a footballer, nurse, GP, socially awkward school...
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David Mathews
- Aug 28, 2018
- 4 min
Egregious Growth Theory: Fox-Mogg Plans Revealed
Sir Arthur* is back from the South of France. A little sea bathing, walks in the hills of Provence and some photographs and theatre in...
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David Mathews
- Aug 25, 2018
- 1 min
The Xenophobes Marching Hymn
They even hum a version of it in the Home Office, so I’m told by my ever-reliable contact Blame the Germans, blame the French, Blame the...
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