Chapter 17. WHEN PUSH COMES TO SHOVE -

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Saturday 8th November 2025, sat at my computer in Dad’s house in Bridlington's preparing for my creative writing workshop at Post Office Rd, Featherstone home of the famous Rovers, next Tuesday.

Dad, Slam Lambert (has a wiki page) is 95 and just made a dash to the loo, 3rd time today. He asks me to check is bum is clean, it is, I then clean up the mess

This workshop is run by Ian Clayton, famous local author, who won the Sunday Times sports book of the year for WHEN PUSH COMES TO SHOVE [Yorkshire Art circus 1993]

Just the kick up the bum I needed to put pen to paper, or mouth to Dragon software in my case


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