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Never forget that they’re Heroes!

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Why the long face?

A Big Fat Zero

Johnson/Starmer Vs Corbyn

19th February 202310th December 2025 Dave GurmanDisplay, NHS, Politics

Never forget that they’re Heroes!

“I thought I’d imagined sirens wailing faintly in the distance but Mark had heard them too and stood up quickly to check which direction theyContinue reading

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13th November 20229th January 2023 Dave GurmanDisplay, Observation, Politics

Unknown Warriors

Every year when Remembrance Sunday is coming around, people start proudly displaying poppies on their social media profiles, while the louder, less reflective among themContinue reading

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22nd April 202214th January 2025 Dave GurmanDisplay, Music

Why the long face?

It’s amazing to think I have friends and family who wouldn’t dream of coming all the way to London for something as frivolous as aContinue reading

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3rd April 20227th April 2022 Dave GurmanDisplay, Music

A Big Fat Zero

On March 30th 2022 ExileFM lost one of its founding presenters and the world lost a minor musical maestro. Zero broadcast his first “Surface Noise”Continue reading

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3rd October 20217th October 2021 Dave GurmanDisplay, Jeremy Corbyn, Politics

Johnson/Starmer Vs Corbyn

This morning I was all set to have my breakfast before launching back into the same old same old, in multiple arguments on Faceache, debatingContinue reading

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6th September 20216th September 2021 Dave GurmanDisplay

HORROR TRIP

Squinting through tired itchy slits, I attempted to make sense of the blurred splashes of colour, light and form as they jerked and danced allContinue reading

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10th May 202110th May 2021 Dave GurmanDisplay, Short stories

Down on the Beach

For nearly two weeks it had become a kind of routine. I’d put my four year old son to bed, followed swiftly by my sixty-sixContinue reading

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25th March 202125th March 2021 Dave GurmanDisplay, Short stories

Tommy’s Rent A Wreck

Tommy’s Rent A Wreck. Hell of a name; but it was a hell of an operation. Even if we hadn’t been on a tight budget,Continue reading

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17th March 202119th March 2021 Dave GurmanDisplay, Motorcycles

Celtic Tiger

If you’re one of TRD’s new readers, welcome. I’ve got to say that it positively cooks my cockles, to think there are now more peopleContinue reading

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22nd January 202124th October 2021 Dave GurmanDisplay, Observation

Fake Pandemic, Fake News!

It was gone ten this morning before I got an opportunity to say more than “would you like a coffee?” to my wife; and byContinue reading

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