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Apart from showcasing and offering the opportunity to purchase my work, the Dave Daze feature offers glimpses of my life as it was lived, with easily digestible extracts from diaries and other writings corresponding to the current date in past years.
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Stay in touch, all the best
David
My beloved boy’s 21st birthday and for first time since he reached his majority I think we weren’t in Riley’s pool hall, Rugby. I didn’t see him at all but did call him from Caribe Hilton lobby bar early eve when he was still sober & I was starting to tie one on in earnest
Happy birthday Joe!
Dave Daze, as I would christen years later entries in Diary, mentioned for that night of 1 December 1978 only ‘a nice looking Wendy’. Cookface was struck by my exact, bolder words in the car: ‘I’m going to marry that girl.’
The author’s attempts to make good on his pledge take us through the next four years from that first meeting at two companies’ Christmas parties. Wendy is a separated single mum committed to raising her son and a full-time job in Rugby. David is a single man, committed more to drinking than developing a career in insurance.
This compelling memoir picks up eight years on from The Sunny Side of the House (‘a whirlwind of humour, heartache, and childhood revelations’), which covered David’s East Anglian boyhood to age fifteen. You can take the boy out of the country…
Was the meeting in 1978 pure chance or secret harmony? Degrees of separation occur as David’s job takes him from Northampton to London. Career horizons broaden as far as Africa and South America, but will he pursue them within or without his developing small family unit? Follow this grown-up and growing-up story to see who will be boarding an intercontinental flight in February 1983.
Our annual dinner during the two months a year when we do not hold meetings at the town hall more dedicated to writing, the thing …
Town’s seventies Bull, first date with the one I came to Rugby for, from Northampton. The Duck, the Windmill, Tavern-in-the-Town As was, along beside unaltered …
From Gumball at Grand Bay to Irvine at Hay, it’s been a busy few weeks. See latest newsletter for more on the Hay Literary Festival …
