Hello and welcome to Winchester, a City set in the countryside.

Paul Silvester, resident, educator and writer.
A novel will soon be available from Amazon – details to follow.

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  •  Lockdown Madness

    Lockdown the third, was into its twelfth week. The cold, dark days of winter presenting a different challenge than the novelty of the first ‘stay at home’ curfew the previous spring. I had a message from the mother of my children. Our youngest son was in crisis. His psychotic, cannabis induced, episodes of eight years…

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  • Boxes

    Ernst closed the inner door, leaving the front door slightly ajar for air, as was his habit. He placed a foot each side of the long rolled up carpet that lay the whole length of the room and walked almost its length before making two right-handed ninety degree turns to arrive back by the windows.…

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  • Brexit – Exit

    It was one of Grant’s mates who invited me along to the meeting. Suzie and I were mildly ‘Brexity’ but not that bothered really. We had voted for it in the referendum. Without really talking that much about it, I think that we had both got so fed up with politics and all politicians, that…

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