Tusitala Writing

Columbo : The Mackintosh No More! By Moira Eribenne

  Today I shall puff on an uncharacteristic cigar by way of a fond farewell to of one of TV’s greatest, most loved and  iconic detectives, Peter Falk, the singular Lieutenant Columbo. Yesterday Falk hung up his signature coat, stubbed out his last cigar, kicked the car, let the dog out and kissed the wife [...]

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Living with autism by Lorraine Farrimond

So Many routines and rituals bring you comfort. Yet they throw the world of others into chaos . Everything is black and white.   Right or wrong.   You are protected in your world by your thoughts A world few can comprehend and one you can’t even extend.   Emotional destruction is all around yet you [...]

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A Testimonial Poem by Lorraine Farrimond

I came to you advanced in years No qualifications, no real aspirations. But University now beckons, a chance, thanks to you, an inspiration a strength out of the blue. I will always remember the things that you have taught me Phil Larkin’s “Home” Deep and meaningful with a suggested archaic tone. Charles Dickens Miss Havisham Stink [...]

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English Tutor Manchester, Bolton and Bury: Rose meets the boy at the stile.

Three steps ahead of her lay an adventure. It just needed a shape.  She set off down the lane towards the sea, pleased with her boots. Bees and wasps attacked the blackberries on either side of her and she stopped to move a field mouse, perfectly dead with both eyes wide open. Death looked like a [...]

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A poem for 9/9/1961 by Cath Godwin

for Janet – on her day of birth – 50 years before today!     a rare few are born knowing knowing pre-birth meeting memories of before birth born life spent remembering knowledge reality purpose pre-birth life line live remembering purpose timing today!

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Refuge: Prologue-part one!

Rose was watching the small rabbit who had been playing on the lawn for an hour. Rose wondered about the second rabbit from yesterday but closed her mind to its destiny as all above her head, the plastic roof tapped away in the wind until sunshine returned again to her garden. Each of Rose’s eyes [...]

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Cath Corri: An untitled poem.

JUST FOUND THIS POEM OF MINE – WRITTEN IN 1980 – 31 YEARS AGO – AGED 23 – UNTITLED PEOPLE EVERYWHERE IN LIFE FROM EVERY WALK AND STATION FROM EVERY TOWN AND CITY AND EVERY STATE AND NATION HAVE GIVEN ME SO MANY THINGS TANGIBLE AND DEAR I CAN’T BEGIN TO COUNT THEM ALL OR [...]

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Lorraine Farrimond:Ahead

  My life so far stilted, Duty bound. Wondering if that once,untamed energy Would ever be found. A longing to learn, To have knowledge, To be bright To put pen to paper, And the content be right. The way forward, is now clear. No more men, ever to fear. My independence. At last alone, I now [...]

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Bern Corri by Cath Corri

Raynard Corri was the bastard offspring of Captain Africa (the lard mogul) and Tracy. The captain disappeared without Tracy, who perished alone , along with her diamond collection, the victim of a mau-mau hit squad. Leaving Raynard alone wi…th the one thing money can’t buy: poverty. He was discovered at one year old by a [...]

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Cath Corri: Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient

The English Patient ‘If I gave you my life, you would drop it. Wouldn’t you?’ Set in post-war Italy, The English Patient focuses on four survivors coming to terms with the devastating effects of war, with each other, and with themselves – Hana, a nurse, whose love for the charred ‘Englishman’ in her care shifts [...]

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