Monthly Archives: August 2019

Family Day Hello friend, I was on a family day earlier on this week; it was for the over 50s (!) My mother came to visit. There were only 14 prisoners and their families who attended – nice and quiet. There are always some little events they put on – quizzes, bingo, guess the number
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Blog Hello friend, Last year the blogs posts got a little behind the date I wrote them. The ‘team’ have done a great job and have pretty much got back on track. This means the posts will in all probability slow down a little. I’m also at the mercy of my cervical stenosis (2019-10); I
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CDs Hello friend, You may find this hard to believe, given how important music has been in my life, but I’ve not bought any CDs since I came to prison in 2003; would you spend half your wages on a CD. That being said, I’ve recently become aware that you can buy some CDs for
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Concerts Hello friend, We’ve done 4 concerts since my last blog (2019-58). It’s not always been vintage performances and some of the song choices have been a little bland; the lower audience numbers seem to reflect the current issues. We have lost quite a number of the more competent guys. It’s ddifficult for me to
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Transfer Hello friend, Well, at the time of writing, I am still at HMP Wakefield. What I have found out over the past few months is that the Scottish Prison Service is over capacity and, as a consequence, transfer priority is being given to prisoners already located in Scottish prisons – that took a Freedom
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