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For Dad

Eulogy for Robert Edmund Gaisford 4.12.1946-23.11.2023 Pass the Pigs is a game in which, instead of dice, you throw miniature rubber...

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Legacy

I’ll see you in the sea, and under that fig tree in Zahara, in the faces of the people who - it’s hard to imagine - love you as much as I...

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Eating gas

You could eat the lava, it was all over the floor. And gas! It tasted like porridge. We lived in a tower, when Lulu was still in mummy's...

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Our little Yasmin, painted by my sister, Moll: https://www.mollygaisford.com/portraits-1

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Links to some of my freelance writing:

https://www.independent.co.uk/author/tom-gaisford https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/author/tom-gaisford/ https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/eurocrisi...

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My review of Brown Baby, by Nikesh Shukla

Brown Baby NIKESH SHUKLA (BLUEBIRD, 256 PP, £16.99) Tablet bookshop price £15.29 • tel 020 7799 4064 Not so long ago, the writer Nikesh...

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The Naughty Towel

It took mummy up, high into the air, and landed her in a tree. The fireman came and chased it away. The end.

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Gingerella

Who? OK, doesn't matter. She danced, then went to bed. That night her bedroom ceiling opened up, revealing a tall, knotted jungle...

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