Death is a Fast Gun

Death is a Gunslinger
Gun Fighters
That's Amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing
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DEATH IS A GUNSLINGER

“I deal in steel.”

Said the man in dusty

Boots

“fill the coffin, return them

to their roots.”

The guns in his hands

still hot with their death

they’ve shot their seeds

and taken their breath

The cadaver the body

Is empty, is spent

Just like the shells

Ejaculated and sent

The pool of blood

Congeals in the dust

Ashes to ashes

Dust turned rust

He holsters his irons

And Spins on his heels

The life has been taken

Death’s done its deals

Into to dusk he walks

And disappears from view

Death will continue

And will be given his due

The 10 Deadliest Wild West Gunfighters

10. Billy the Kid

Legend has it that famous outlaw Billy the Kid had killed as many as 26 men by the time he died, aged just 21 years old, although the total seems more likely to have been under 10. While there’s conflicting information about Billy the Kid’s true name and origins, he is widely reported to have been excellent with a gun. It seems most likely that he was born in an Irish district of New York City on November 23, 1859 and then settled in New Mexico in 1873, after being moved around the country by his mother.

In 1877 – following his engagement in criminal activity such as livestock rustling – Billy the Kid was hired by a wealthy English cattle rancher named John Tunstall in Lincoln County, New Mexico. The Kid’s job was to protect Tunstall and watch over his animals. And he was known for his lightning-fast draw, his lithe frame, and his readiness to fight with his fists if necessary. The Kid is said to have thought highly of his boss, and the two had a mutual respect. So when Tunstall was murdered in cold blood, Billy vowed to exact revenge on the killers.

Billy the Kid’s favorite gun is believed to have been a .44 caliber Colt “Peacemaker,” and he became notorious due to his involvement in the Lincoln County War. Much violence and many escapades ensued, and on July 14, 1881, he was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett.

9. James “Killin’ Jim” Miller

James “Killin’ Jim” Miller was born in Van Buren, Arkansas on October 25, 1866, but his family moved to Texas when he was a baby. Miller’s parents died when he was young, and he moved in with his grandparents. Yet he was orphaned for a second time when his grandparents were murdered, with Miller himself arrested for the crime, even though he was only eight years old. In the end, he wasn’t charged, and he went to live with his sister and her husband. Later, as a teenager, Miller blasted his sister’s husband in the head with a shotgun after a quarrel. He was handed a life sentence for the murder but escaped justice owing to a technicality.

Next, Miller was implicated in another shotgun attack, this time on Ballinger City lawman Joe Townsend. Following this incident, “Killin’ Jim” spent time traveling and ran a saloon. He then turned lawman himself, eventually becoming the marshal of Pecos. In 1894, an ongoing feud between Miller and Pecos sheriff George A. “Bud” Frazer led to Frazer shooting Miller in the arm, groin and chest – but thanks to a steel plate under his shirt, Miller survived.

“Killin’ Jim” went on to become a Texas Ranger as well as a professional assassin. However, on April 19, 1909, following the murder of former Deputy US Marshal Allen “Gus” Bobbitt, Miller was hanged. Apparently, he screamed, “Let ‘er rip,” before stepping off the box. This outlaw once claimed that he’d killed 51 men; other sources say he dispatched with 12 in gunfights.

8. John Wesley Hardin

According to an article in True West magazine, a contemporary of John Wesley Hardin’s claimed that Hardin “could get out a six-shooter and use it quicker than a frog could eat a fly.” And describing Hardin’s skills, Texas Ranger James B. Gillett said, “The quick draw, the spin, the rolls, pinwheeling, border shift – he did them all with magical precision.” Hardin is also said to have been a crack shot from horseback, able to unload his ammo into the knot of a tree trunk while galloping past.

Hardin favored cap-and-ball six-shooters and, on at least one occasion, a double-barreled shotgun. Unfortunately, he used his skills for ill. Born on May 26, 1853, this Texan desperado and gunfighter shot and killed his first victim in 1868, when he was just 15 years old. Publications of the period say that he dispatched with 27 men during his lifetime. However, he got his comeuppance on August 19, 1895 when he was shot and killed at the age of 42 by outlaw-cum-constable John Selman.

Interestingly, whilst he was a teenager going by the alias Wesley Clemmons, Hardin encountered another individual covered in this article, “Wild Bill” Hickok. Hardin was captivated by Hickok and in awe of his gun-fighting reputation.

7. Dan Bogan

Born in Alabama in 1860, Dan Bogan relocated and grew up in Texas, where he started working as a cowboy from an early age. Bogan seemed to have a quick temper, and he was always on the lookout for a fight, which earned him a reputation as a troublemaker. He later left Texas for Wyoming after being blacklisted in a wage dispute.

It is believed that by 1886 this cowboy had taken the lives of three men. What’s more, Bogan’s rabblerousing didn’t end there, and on January 15, 1887 he murdered Constable Charles S. Gunn, shooting the onetime Texas Ranger with a revolver. Before he could get away, though, Bogan was himself shot in the shoulder and then captured – although he managed to make a getaway in the midst of a raging blizzard.

Bogan later turned himself into the authorities because his wounds had caused him to get sick. However, in October 1987 he succeeded in breaking out of jail. And although famous detective Charlie Siringo pursued him, Bogan vanished without leaving much of a trace and possibly escaped to Argentina. While Bogan is not as well known as some of his contemporaries, author Robert K. DeArment considers him among the Old West’s most underestimated gunslingers.

6. William “Wild Bill” Longley

William Preston Longley – better known as “Wild Bill” Longley – is regarded as one of the most lethal gunfighters of the Old West. He had a notoriously short fuse and killed upon the slightest provocation. In fact, he may even have been what today we’d call a psychopath. By his own account, he was instructed from an early age to “believe it was right to kill sassy Negroes,” and by the age of 17 he had committed his first murder.

Longley was born in Austin County, Texas on October 6, 1851 and grew up on a farm close to Evergreen in Lee County, where he mastered the art of shooting. This dangerous gunfighter was known to carry two Dance .44 caliber revolvers, but he used a shotgun as well. At the time of his hanging, on October 11, 1878, Longley said that he had killed eight people – although he earlier claimed the figure was 32. Either way, CBS News calls him “one of the first two-gun fast draw experts.”

5. Harvey “Kid Curry” Logan

Born in Tama County, Iowa in 1867, Harvey Logan – otherwise known as “Kid Curry” – was caught up in criminal activity such as robbery from a young age, and in 1894 he got on the wrong side of the law in Montana. As the story goes, a miner and lawman named Powell “Pike” Landusky believed that Logan was involved with his daughter and accused him of assault. Logan was taken away by police and beaten. So on December 27, the 27-year-old Logan confronted Landusky in a saloon and shot and killed him with a pistol. Forced to flee, Logan would ride with outlaw Black Jack Ketchum, form his own gang, and eventually join Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’s Wild Bunch.

According to some, Logan was considered “the fastest gun in the West” and is thought to be the basis for the Sundance Kid character as depicted by Hollywood. Logan participated in a series of robberies in South Dakota, Wyoming, New Mexico and Colorado, and Wild West magazine even claims that he was “the wildest of the Wild Bunch.”

This gunman escaped from prison on two occasions and allegedly killed nine men in various shooting incidents during his time. In the end, on June 17, 1904, Logan took his own life after being wounded in a gunfight in Parachute, Colorado – perhaps to evade capture one last time.

4. Luke Short

Fast-drawing gunslinger and killer Luke Short was born in Mississippi in 1854 but was raised in Texas. Leaving home whilst in his teens, Short worked as a cowboy, an illegal whiskey trader and a professional gambler. He also later invested in various saloons. Short had practiced with a gun in his early years and would acquire a reputation for his skill, but the most famous event he was involved in was probably the so-called Dodge City War.

After buying shares in the Long Branch Saloon, Short was branded “undesirable” by the Dodge City, KS authorities, and they made attempts to get rid of him. However, determined not to go down without a fight, Short reached out to prominent Old West lawman Bat Masterson, who in turn got in touch with Wyatt Earp. Earp then descended on Dodge City with a posse of desperados. And in order to prevent any conflict, Short was allowed back into Dodge and given permission to reopen his saloon – all without a single gunshot sounding. Short is also famous for winning a duel against Jim Courtright on February 8, 1887 in Forth Worth, Texas, where his ability to pull a pistol saved his own life – and ended Courtright’s.

3. Dallas Stoudenmire

Dallas Stoudenmire was born in Aberfoil, Alabama on December 11, 1845. As a 15-year-old, he spent time in the Confederate Army – although he was discharged when officers found out that he was underage. Still, undeterred, Stoudenmire signed up again and fought in the Civil War, and he later operated as a Texas Ranger for three or more years. Armed with two guns, Stoudenmire was an accurate shot with both hands, and he had a reputation for being tough and dangerously short-tempered when he had a drink inside him.

In April 1881, Stoudenmire became marshal of El Paso, Texas – this being an infamously lawless and violent town at the time. On his third day on the job, Stoudenmire killed three men with two .44 caliber Colt revolvers in a famous incident known as the “Four Dead In Five Seconds” gunfight. By February the following year, he had dispatched with a further seven men in gunfights. Although the crime rate in El Paso fell significantly, and Stoudenmire earned himself repute as a legendary lawman and gunslinger, he also made himself a lot of enemies. On September 18, 1882, he was shot and killed during a shootout with the Manning brothers, the culmination of a feud. He was 36 years old.

2. William “Curly Bill” Brocius

Born around 1845, William Brocius, better known as “Curly Bill” Brocius, may well be Arizona’s most famous – or infamous – outlaw. He was involved in multiple gunfights and related incidents, including the accidental shooting of Tombstone town marshal Fred White on October 27, 1880 and the March 8, 1881 killing of a cowboy named Dick Lloyd.

Brocius may have also been mixed up in the March 18, 1882 assassination of Morgan Earp. Whether or not this was the case, what is certain is that Brocius was good with a gun. In fact, a contemporary said he was capable of shooting coins from between people’s fingers and could comfortably take down fleeing jackrabbits. He was also said to have the ability to snuff out a candle by firing at it with his pistol. In the end, though, on March 24, 1882, Wyatt Earp killed Brocius during a shootout involving the Earp posse, Brocius and several other cowboys in Iron Springs, Arizona.

1. James “Wild Bill” Hickok

Deadly gunman and Old West folk hero James “Wild Bill” Hickok was born in Illinois on May 27, 1837. Hickok is said to have been a great shot, even as a youngster, and was well known for his marksmanship with a pistol. In 1855, after a fight Hickok mistakenly believed had ended with the death of his adversary, the 18-year-old headed west. He first found work as a stagecoach driver, prior to working as a lawman in Kansas and Nebraska. Hickok then spent some time fighting for the Union Army – possibly as a spy – during the Civil War.

In 1865, “Wild Bill” was involved in an iconic public quick-draw duel with David Tutt. Harper’s Magazine featured it in a story, which elevated Hickok to hero status. Hickok’s weapons of choice were a brace of 1851 Colt pistols with ivory handles and silver plating, which he kept in his belt or sash and drew in a reverse “cavalry” style.

On April 15, 1871, Hickok took over as the marshal of Abilene, Texas. However, in December that same year he was discharged of his duties following a string of dubious shooting incidents – including the accidental killing of his deputy. After that, Hickok traveled with Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West show for a few years, performing as himself. He also tried to support himself as a gambler and was even arrested for vagrancy on a few occasions. Fate caught up with Hickok on August 2, 1876 when a man named Jack McCall walked into the Deadwood, Dakota saloon in which Hickok was playing poker and shot him in the head from behind.

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No wind or snow forecast for tomorrow. The Met Office have advised everyone to make unnecessary journeys.

Watching the Detectives

Bus Detective

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Bus Detective
Sherlock
That's Amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing
Word
Random Joke



Here is something new and experimental, let me know if you like it..

So, I’m sitting on a bus. The first time for many years, I marvel at its technology, from USB to WiFi. But, for all the changes, the passengers do seem to be the same.

I have often been told that my writing shows a talent for observation. I do like to watch, almost as much as I like to talk.

So I use this trip as an act of experimentation. What can I observe? What can I deduce? Sherlock on his way home(s).

In front of me sits a woman, early forties I suspect. Her coat, smart and constructed of wool, looks about five years out of date. The collar is slightly frayed. Her hair is swept back but is well conditioned, a slight smell of coconut. Her clothes, neat and tidy, appear to be quality made but again are not as fashionable as I think a woman of this age would wear. Physically, she appears to look after herself but looks tired, dark rings beneath her eyes. Her fingernails neat, but show evidence of being chewed. Her tummy shows a slight swell, the typical physicality of a woman who has gone through childbirth at least once.

Her shoes neat and simple, no great heel and show no sign of great wear. Her fingers show no rings. I look as closely as I dare and notice an indentation where a wedding ring may have been.

She occasionally checks her phone. A smart one, but not up to date. She does not check any websites just messages. This would suggest that her contract may be small or pay as you go to keep her costs down.

The coat and clothes show that no great expense has been spent, but that was perhaps two or three years ago. Shoes worn, but not so much; this suggests a person who doesn’t walk in these shoes, a car owner?

No rings. I conclude that she is divorced and has not done well from the split. A shortage of money to update her wardrobe and perhaps a recent change of circumstances concerning her car. Perhaps it is in for repair, or she has had to shelve it due to cost. She is a Mother of at least one teenager. The tiredness and anxiousness showed by her nails suggest trouble at home. An unruly teen, angry at her split with the father or financial arguments.

Opposite the bus aisle sits a young man. Blonde hair shaved at the sides and piled on top of his head, the identifying quiff of a hipster. He is, however, cleanly shaven. His left ear shows a piercing but contains no earring; it has been removed.

He is wearing a grey suit. The shoulders are slightly too big for the man; the suit also appears to be manufactured of manmade fibres, a mix of cotton and lycra. It is not wool. The fact that its slightly ill-fitting suggests it is ‘off the shelf’ rather than made to measure. The construction and fabric would seem to suggest a supermarket suit. His shirt, although clean is a tarnished white. He wears no cufflinks as there appear to be no holes for them in the cuffs, again suggesting a cheaper manufactured shirt. The cuffs show sign of wear underneath seeming to suggest that they rub against a surface regularly.

Shoe leather uppers but rubber soles. Not dirty but not polished.He carries a carrier bag with a store logo on it. The bag contains the square outline of what appears to be a lunch box. He has yet to look up from his phone, a new up to date iPhone, I see facebook and twitter pop up as well as other sites I do not recognise. I think this young man is in retail, he is certainly ‘front of house’ as the fact he is clean shaven and without an earring suggests. He carries no briefcase but rather a carrier bag this reinforces my idea that he is not an ‘office worker’. Given his age and cash he has to spend on a phone, I would assume he lives at home.

The bus trundles on, would I make a detective?

The Top 10 Portrayals Of Sherlock Holmes

10. Ellie Norwood

Norwood played Holmes in 47 silent films ! He was the first actor to bring Holmes from the page and onto film.

9. Nicholas Rowe

Nicholas Rowe was the star of the 1985 Steven Spielberg movie Young Sherlock Holmes.

8. Tom Baker

A year after leaving Doctor Who, Baker was invited to play Holmes by his former producer Barry Letts. The 1982 BBC television production of The Hound Of The Baskervilles, 

7. Arthur Wontner

Arthur Wontner won the role of Holmes having played Sexton Blake, a character seen as a flattering imitation of the Baker Street detective. Wontner earned appreciation from staunch Holmes experts, including Conan Doyle’s wife.

6. Douglas Wilmer

Douglas Wilmer became the first television Sherlock Holmes when the BBC produced The Speckled Band in 1964.

5. Robert Downey Jr

Over the course of two Guy Ritchie films, Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows (2011), the magnetic personality of Robert Downey Jr has allowed his rather crass, cynical, yet likeable portrayal of the master detective to be enjoyed by cinema-goers across the world.

4. Peter Cushing

Although Peter Cushing first portrayed Holmes in the 1959 Hammer version of The Hound Of The Baskervilles, he is perhaps better remembered for the 16-episode, 1968 BBC series, Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, when he replaced Douglas Wilmer as the Baker Street sleuth. Even as late as 1984, Cushing appeared as Holmes in the TV movie The Masks Of Death.

3. Basil Rathbone

Arguably the actor most commonly identified with Sherlock Holmes on film, Sir Basil Rathbone made 14 Sherlock Holmes movies between 1939 and 1946, creating the deerstalker and cape look in the process.

2. Benedict Cumberbatch

Star of the current BBC series Sherlock, Benedict Cumberbatch is Holmes for the 21st century.

1. Jeremy Brett

The sorely-missed Jeremy Brett was a genuine one-off – an actor of immense skill and intense personality. In 1984 Granada television, fresh from the success of The Jewel In The Crown, produced an equally superb television adaptation of Sherlock Holmes. Supported first by David Burke and then Edward Hardwicke, both intelligent and thoughtful as Watson, Jeremy Brett made Sherlock Holmes so much his own that any fresh television adaptation would have to approach Conan Doyle’s work from a very different direction.

21% of the UK population think Sherlock Holmes was a real person.

Word of the day: CRYTOSCOPOPHILIA - The urge to look through people’s windows as you pass their houses.

You know what I hate? People who answer their own questions

Seven Seas

The Sea
That's Amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing
Random Joke


Seven Seas

How many oceans on this planet?

Seven seas we were told

But of course, that’s just our perception

There is but one, deep and cold

It’s salty tears envelope our world

Its blueness mirrors the sky above

Man has crossed it in boats of iron

Fisherman lost in its embrace of love

It creates our seasons, makes our rain

Whips the wind and erodes the earth

The sea is our thermostat

It will be there at our death as it was at our birth.

A pantry, a feeder, the birthplace of all

A toilet, a waste place, to flush crap away

We choke it; we poison it, we fill it with rubbish

Now plastic is found that cannot decay

Man-made garbage has covered the earth

It spills into oceans and spreads its death

From plant life to fish and crustation, all life

Nothing is safe we’ll take their last breath

So cry the seas, wash away all our sins

Blow on the sand and wave us goodbye

We’ve changed your make up your chemical balance

From acid rain to deaths dear alkali

THE SEA

About 70 percent of the Earth's surface is covered with water, yet the oceans largely remain a mystery for scientists.

More is known about the moon's surface than the depths of the ocean. In fact, 12 people have stepped foot on the moon, but only three have been to the Mariana Trench — the deepest part of the ocean, at roughly 7 miles (11 kilometers) deep.

For every species of marine life we know of, at least another three are yet to be discovered

Our oceans teem with life ranging from the blue whale — the biggest animal on Earth — to tiny microbes.

But nobody knows exactly how many different species live in this environment. There is no data for around 20 per cent of the ocean's volume.

The Census of Marine Life, a 10-year international project to identify life in our oceans, found nearly 250,000 species. But scientists believe a least a million species of marine life could be out there, and that's not counting the tens or even hundreds of millions of kinds of microbes that make up the majority of marine life.

What we do know is that ocean life survives in the most extreme environments. Scientists have found life that can survive in temperatures that melt lead, where seawater freezes into ice, or there's no light or oxygen.

In fact, the dark ocean zone between 1000 and 5000 metres known as the abyssal zone has a far greater range of marine life than we once thought.

Water takes around 1000 years to travel all the way around the whole globe

The oceans not only have waves, tides and surface currents — they also have a constantly moving system of deep-ocean circulation driven by temperature and salinity.

Known as the global ocean conveyor belt or thermohaline current (thermo = temperature, haline = salinity), this deep ocean current gets one of its "starts" in the polar region near Norway.

As sea ice forms, the water left behind becomes saltier and denser and begins to sink, making room for warmer and less dense incoming surface water, which in turn eventually becomes cold and salty enough to sink.

The cold dense water flows along the ocean bottom all the way from the northern hemisphere to the Southern Ocean where it merges with more cold dense water from Antarctica and is swept into the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Eventually it mixes with warmer water and rises to the surface before finding its way back to the Atlantic. It can take 1000 years to complete this cycle.

Half of all the oxygen we breathe is produced in the ocean

Some of this oxygen is produced by sea weeds and sea grasses, but the vast majority of the oxygen is produced by phytoplankton, microscopic single celled organisms that have the ability to photosynthesise. These tiny creatures live in the surface layer of the ocean (and in lakes and rivers) and form the very base of the aquatic food chain.

During photosynthesis, phytoplankton remove carbon dioxide from sea water and release oxygen. The carbon becomes part of their bodies.

Oceans hold around 50 times more carbon than the atmosphere

Cold water can dissolve much more CO2 than warm water, so the cold polar regions are net absorbers of CO2. But as the cold water finds its way to warmer tropical areas, the oceans release CO2 back into the atmosphere. The equatorial Pacific is thought to be the biggest single natural source of CO2 in the atmosphere. Most of this carbon is exchanged with the atmosphere on a timescale of several hundred years.

Prior to the industrial revolution, the uptake and release of CO2 on land and ocean was in a dynamic equilibrium. Since then, the oceans are thought to have absorbed about half of the carbon dioxide released from the burning of fossil fuels, with the rest remaining in the atmosphere.

The great garbage patch is more like a plastic soup

The existence of the The Great Pacific Garbage 'patch' in the North Pacific Ocean was confirmed in 1997. It lies at the centre of a large rotating ocean current — or gyre. Since then, a soup of plastic pollution has been found at the centre of all the world's major gyres — in the South Pacific, the North and South Atlantic and in the Indian Ocean.

Plastic trash takes a very long time to bio-degrade in the oceans. The actions of sunlight and wave motion tend to break plastic objects into smaller and smaller pieces until they eventually become smaller than a grain of sand. That's why there is no obvious floating island of plastic debris, but rather a fine soup of plastic particles floating in the water column.

These fine particles are now thought to act like sponges, concentrating pollutants such as PCBs, DDT and PAHs. When the particles are ingested by filter feeding sea creatures, they enter the food chain and ultimately into fish destined for human consumption.

They also harbour unique colonies of microbes, but it is too early to say what impact this emerging 'plastisphere' will have on marine ecological environments.

Plastics only came into widespread use after 1945, but can already be found in every part of the marine environment from the surface to the seafloor.

The Atlantic Ocean is getting bigger and the Pacific Ocean is getting smaller

Twenty million years ago there was no Atlantic Ocean. But then, thanks to plate tectonics, the South American and North American continents were separated by a rift valley that eventually turned into the Atlantic Ocean. The complementary shapes of the South American and African continents have long been noticed, but it wasn't until the 1960s that the theory of plate tectonics became accepted as the explanation.

These days, the Atlantic Ocean is growing at a rate of five centimetres per year, as new sea floor is created by volcanic activity along its mid-ocean ridge.

On the other hand, the much older Pacific Ocean is currently estimated to be shrinking by two to three centimetres each year. Again, this comes down to plate tectonics because the Pacific Ocean has subduction zones on three sides — where the Pacific plate submerges beneath other plates.

That's Amazing

The deepest manned ocean descent was achieved by Dr Jacques Piccard (Switzerland) and Lt. Donald Walsh (USA) who piloted the Swiss-built US Navy bathyscaphe Trieste to a depth of 10,911 m (35,797 ft) in the Challenger Deep section of the Mariana Trench on 23 January 1960. Challenger Deep is thought to be the deepest point on earth and is situated 400 km (250 miles) south-west of Guam in the Pacific Ocean

Random Joke

After exercise i always eat a whole pizza. Just kidding...........I don't exercise.

Logical

Logical

In Today's Issue

Logical
That's Amaaaaaaazing
Random Joke
Word

Can I speal my mind


LOGICAL

It all seems so logical

The right solution

To remove myself

For I’m pollution

What is the point

The point of me

waste of space

social amputee

An empty man

I’ve run my course

Time to go

Let's shoot this horse

It all seems so logical

The right solution

To remove myself

For I’m pollution

(The biggest killer of Men under 50 in the UK is suicide)

(Rates have risen by 20% over the last five years)

(Men are three times more likely to  take their lives than women)

Thats Amaaazing

Frankfurt police have found a car belonging to a 76-year-old man who forgot where he parked it 20 years ago.

Random Joke

Not saying we were poor, but many a time my Mother would send me next door with a button, and ask our neighbour if she would sew a shirt on it.

Word

Treppenwitz is the German word for a witty comeback that you think of too late to use it. The literal translation is 'staircase joke'.

Can I Speak My Mind ?

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Some of the pieces are heartbreaking, some are hopeful, some are even funny…but what they all are is honest.

All profits from the sale of this book will go to mental health charities.

By buying this anthology you have contributed to people who go that extra mile to help sufferers in the community. These groups volunteer selflessly. Your money will help them to continue providing much needed support.

So well done you, you are a hero.

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Can I Speak My Mind

Neville Raper is a Broadcaster, Poet, Author, Playwriter and a blogger. He is an occasional stand up, regular sit down.

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