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The Music Box with Ade, 31 Aug 2026
Every week I make a live radio show from our Blackpool UK studio for West Coast Radio Blackpool. The show includes my eclectic music choices, local news, sport and entertainment stories. This week’s music choices included tracks from The Rasmus, Nelly Furtado, Nina Simone, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Jamie XX, the Funeral Portrait and Bonobo to…
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Chief
A story inspired by hearing Eric Church’s song Springsteen from the album Chief
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Sol y Sombra
In 2010 I went to the Feria de Pedro Romero in Ronda, Spain and wrote this poem, “Sol y Sombra” (translation “Sun and Shade”) based on my experience of the Feria Goyesca
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Hot Dog & Onions
No doubt inspired by food vendors servicing a nearby music festival, Steve came up with a prompt (amongst others) of hot dog and onions
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Enlightenment
I think this one speaks for itself written one depressing Saturday morning in 2025
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Handbags
I found this hiding on my computer. No idea where it came from, apart from inside my copious archives …
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Exit Scheme
Compiling miscellaneous writings from my writing app, I found this, influenced by a death in the family, from thirteen years ago. Caveat: not for the faint-hearted …
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The Acid Test
Amongst several prompts suggested, the words ‘the acid test’ appealed most to me, so I wrote this piece of hokum
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The Feast
Amongst the prompts provided recently by Brighter Writers’ major-domo, Steve, was ‘The Feast’. Using those two words, it’s up to the writer what to write about…
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The Marathon
The major-domo of our writing group manifested some prompts for us to use in a writing exercise recently. I thought one of them might provide an athletic twist, as it was The Marathon, (a noble race) which I quickly chose to write about because I love a challenge!
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