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I am a 68-year-old gay disabled amateur part-time writer living in Slough, Berkshire UK. I have published around 60 articles in 20 leisure and lifestyle magazines. I live with a range of health issues including heart disease, chronic kidney disease, Type 2 diabetes, depression, atrial fibrillation and restless leg syndrome. (I'm working my way through the medical dictionary!). I'm a member of Slough Writer's Group which is interesting and informative. Latest News. 10th July 2023 Awarded 'The Sandy Lee-Guard Award for Endeavour' by the Slough Writers Group. 6th December 2023 Completed studying 'Writing for Magazines' with CityLit University. January 2nd 2024. Fell over in the lounge and fractured my left femur (whilst recovering from fracturing my right femur in July 2023). Recovery expected to take 6 - 8 months. May 2024. Completed studying ' National Centre for Writing' course 'Creative Non-Fiction - An Introduction'. You can see the articles that have been published in the 'LATEST WORK' section of my website. It's at http://richardhill.co.uk/latest.html

Monday 25 December 2023

Merry Christmas Monday


 It's arrived!

It's Christmas Day!

Did you get everything you wanted from Father Christmas?

I slept in until around 10am, yet years ago, when I was a young boy, I would wake up around 5am. I'd excitedly go downstairs to retrieve the presents that the big man would have left me in front of the fireplace. I'd 'heave' the (real) stocking upstairs back to bed and unwrap everything carefully.

Father Christmas had a funny sense of humour! Some of the presents I unwrapped were mine already! But there was always something that I really wanted. One year, he left me a wrapped shoebox marked 'DIY KIT' which contained all manner of things. For example colored pencils and paper, safety scissors, sticky tape, paper glue, balsa wood, etc.

 Breakfast was served after milking and after church, we'd come home and open our presents. This year I'd been given money by Simon to spend on 'reference' and 'how to write so and so' books.

I've had a 'messenger' chat just with my friend Bodie. It's 17:12 now, and I'm going to 'publish' this now and come back to it later.



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