by music hall | Jun 11, 2018 | Words by Roy Hall
Cancer by Roy Hall “What’s that black circle?” I asked the technician while looking at the ghostly images on the screen. The contrast between the ethereal wisps and the circle was striking. “I don’t know”, he said, but I did. I had been having pains in my groin and...
by music hall | Jun 11, 2018 | Words by Roy Hall
Jerusalem by Roy Hall The pilgrim, after saying some prayers, prostrated himself on the Stone of Anointing, removed a small plastic bag from his coat, emptied its contents and rubbed them on the stone. The old city of Jerusalem is most interesting. I first visited it...
by music hall | Jun 11, 2018 | Words by Roy Hall
Vikingbåde by Roy Hall “I wish this boat would stop rocking so much,” I groaned to myself as I opened my eyes and looked in the bathroom mirror. It was only then that I realized I was standing in my hotel room in Copenhagen. This was my first trip to Denmark. I had...
by music hall | Jun 11, 2018 | Words by Roy Hall
The Engagement by Roy Hall “Goodbye” I said with a smile as I stepped over the two bodies twitching on the ground. Many years ago I almost married the absolutely wrong person. We had met when her boyfriend at the time asked me to give her guitar lessons. In those...
by music hall | Jun 11, 2018 | Words by Roy Hall
Mykonos by Roy Hall “Aren’t you Morag and Elspeth from Arbroath?” The flight to Greece was uneventful but cramped. In the early eighties my wife Rita and I had little money but we wanted to have an exotic holiday, and found a really cheap charter flight to Athens. We...
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