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Memory and Time
Time is not a line but a dimension, wrote Margaret Atwood. Memories. Memories and time fold back on each other. Themes. Places. People....
TIMOTHY SHORT
Dec 4, 20241 min read
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From the Ashes of War...
Bootle was bombed more than any other part of the UK during World War Two, as the German Bombers aimed for the docks to stop the...
TIMOTHY SHORT
Dec 4, 20241 min read
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Hope springs eternal...
Spring Onion!!! The Big Onion is a business run by Merseyside Expanding Horizons based in Bootle Strand. It is a business, enterprise,...
TIMOTHY SHORT
Nov 10, 20241 min read
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'Stop talking the town down!' - The town is actually being 'downed'... Sefton North and South...
A Bootle bin. Great to see it being put to good use, even if not emptied. Southport lift. The very same Southport lift.
TIMOTHY SHORT
Nov 10, 20241 min read
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The Idea of North Part 11... Sefton...
The Triad and its base in Bootle in Eastern Europe. A memorial to those killed in direct hits on Bomb Shelters in Bootle during World War...
TIMOTHY SHORT
Nov 10, 20241 min read
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Dark Places in Old England - Northern Exposure Part 10
As a child I used to mess about in alleyways - taking shortcuts etc, but I guess gating them off makes it harder for burglars and...
TIMOTHY SHORT
Oct 29, 20241 min read
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The Red Trees of Old England - Northern Exposure 9
This tree went completely cherry red one year. Was beautiful. Just a tint of it this year, although I think it was redder last week! The...
TIMOTHY SHORT
Oct 29, 20241 min read
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Northern Exposure - Part Eight
The 'new' Crosby Baths is no longer new. I remember the old one. A tall rectangle with a very very high diving board. Did some...
TIMOTHY SHORT
Oct 25, 20241 min read
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The Ideas of the North - Part 7
The Towers of the Docks. A mechanised docks. Machines. A few little jobs in Free Trade Zones untouched by law and society. As a child my...
TIMOTHY SHORT
Oct 23, 20241 min read
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The Job - (There is some disgraceful bad language)
Part 1 Â You were good once... An example... Â But times change... And the clock ticks... Â And you either die the hero... Or live long...
TIMOTHY SHORT
Oct 20, 20242 min read
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The Idea of North Part 6 - Only love can mend a broken heart...
This floor here used to be bustling with people. The bottom section of Bootle Strand just down the stairs ahead is about to be renovated...
TIMOTHY SHORT
Oct 14, 20241 min read
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Men
The sun rises in the West And sets in the East He rides into the sunset And it all comes out Across a continent Armour off. The voices of...
TIMOTHY SHORT
Oct 4, 20241 min read
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Aintree Retail Park and the Cinema - Â The death of the dream and the dream rekindled - (There is some bad language)
ARP – The death of the dream  To add insult to injury - Aintree Retail Park is owned by the Crown. These things seem based on the car...
TIMOTHY SHORT
Sep 30, 20243 min read
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Why is there more rubbish on the streets of Bootle?
One day last year, while walking to the park with my son, he asked me why there was so much rubbish on the floor. Sometimes kids ask or...
TIMOTHY SHORT
Sep 27, 20244 min read
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Autumn
Oh wait... I didn't want this a few weeks ago... Although a part of me did... And now you are coming... The leaves are crisp and brown......
TIMOTHY SHORT
Sep 22, 20241 min read
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Dance and Sing like there is no one watching...
Even as an aged/middle aged/ late aged individual who might not sing in the shower like they used to, or dance alone like they used to,...
TIMOTHY SHORT
Sep 15, 20243 min read
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The Hidden Rooms of Despair - A poem
Locked in…  Looking out…  Abandoned by love…  And well-intentioned liberals…   In hidden rooms created by people other than me…  ...
TIMOTHY SHORT
Sep 13, 20241 min read
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Luscious
In the mist of time…  Trees move away in the distance…  Getting fainter…  A still and silent world of beauty….   Green giving to...
TIMOTHY SHORT
Sep 8, 20241 min read
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Liverpool in Sun
I do not know this place... Â It seems like a dream somehow...a memory maybe... Â It smells of holidays in my youth... Â Roads are...
TIMOTHY SHORT
Sep 3, 20241 min read
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So reach out - a poem
Love is when a day is like a dream with no time... But as real as the pain of heartbreak... Â Love is when someone climbs a mountain to...
TIMOTHY SHORT
Aug 27, 20241 min read
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