Fashion house Inc five a side football.
Luftwaffe flying low
Printing
Printing.
Written in Crescent Beach Hotel June 2013
In any worldview, printing has to be second only to the creation of writing in the top ten of humanities pivotal cultural milestones.
Can we possibly imagine a world without printing? Even in this day of instant media, e books, i pads and smart phones, could our culture have developed to the point where these innovations would have been possible without books? I doubt it; certainly our World would be a very different place without the printed word.
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Diving (sports)
Some fifty five years ago, I was seven, and while on a family holiday in Killala Co Mayo, my parents bought me, after much whining on my part, a full diving kit consisting of snorkel, mask and fins.
The memory of my first diving equipment is clear. Blue rubbery type plastic, but not modern pliable rubbery plastic, the old stuff, that was almost as unflinchingly non-malleable as the material used in the making of buckets.
However they became my key to the undersea world of Jim Nelson.
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Bird Strike
Art Thou a Witch
My Early Motoring Life.
My early motoring life.
A Short Story by:
Jim Nelson.
In 1976 I was 19 and working as a customs clearance clerk for a shipping company in the port.
Mostly my job was writing customs entries in the office, bringing them to the various landing stations around the docks, and picking up clearance slips.
For the first eight months working there I had had a company supplied Honda 50 which was fantastic (once I learnt how to change gear) because my girlfriend lived in Churchtown which was a two hour walk (once I learned that there was another shorter way than the bus route) from where I lived.
Having transport in those days was important because buses were notoriously unreliable, and taxis out of the question.
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My First Football Boots:
A Short story by: Jim Nelson
From the age of five until I realized that I was never going to be a professional player (Around the age of 40), I was obsessed with football, and when that realization dawned upon me, I became an enthusiastic participant until I was too old to play anymore. Now I am just a huge fan!
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