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Carl Halling. Christian actor, singer, songwriter, writer, other. I was born on the Goldhawk Road, W6, in the Chiswick/Shepherds Bush/Hammersmith district of west London, UK. CD (Tasman Records) A Taste of Summer Wine - James Hughes, Carl Halling and the

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Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Youth: 18 of 48
Introduction to From Paris to Golders Green/Gallant festivities The various sections of "From Paris to Golders Green" provide a stark contrast between my psychological state during the first half of my time at Westfield College, London, where I studied for a BA degree in French and Drama between 1981 and '85, and that during... More..
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Friendship: 13 of 34
A Seafaring Friendship I underwent my final RNR voyage, destination Ostend in Belgium, towards the end of the summer of 1977. My best RNR oppo Colin was sadly not onboard, but thankfully a new close seafaring friend was. His name if my memory serves me faithfully was Adam, and If Colin was of the type of the bluff and good-h... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Struggle in life: 386 of 915
The Reveller's End In 2006, this piece was adapted, edited, reassembled with slight alterations in favour of verity of time and of punctuation from an autobiographical work or rather works with various titles dating from the mid 1990s. It had been written, destroyed, re-written, re-destroyed, I can't recall how many times: i... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Confused by love: 133 of 311
She Dear One Who Followed Me It was she, bless her, who followed me... she'd been crying... she's too good for me, that's for sure... "Your friends are too good to you... it makes me sick to see them... you don't really give... you indulge in conversation, but your mind is always elsewhere, ticking over. You could hurt me, y... More..
Education > College Life College life: The best years of your life: 6 of 14
College Life at Westfield College, London University Thanks to the generosity of my interviewers both at Westfield and Central, I'd effectively scraped in with two mediocre "A" levels at B and C. Ultimately, however, the one-time head of the French department and published author Dr M. advised me to seriously consider a care... More..
Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: Childhood memories: 11 of 25
Snapshots from a Child's West London Introduction The following story is not so much a story, as fragments taken from spidery writings with which I filled four and a half pages of a school style notebook in what is likely to have been the year of 1977 and artfully glued together. Again, according to my own personal purist cr... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Paris: 15 of 34
A Paris Flaneur I took the Metro to Montparnasse-Bienvenue, where I slowly sipped a demi-blonde in one of those brasseries immortalised by Brassai... bewhiskered old toper in a naval officer's cap, his table bestrewn with empty wine bottles and cigarette butts, repeatedly screeched the name "Phillippe" until such a time as..... More..
Creative Writing > Memoirs Testimonies: My college experience: 16 of 36
The Superstar Spirit In 1975 aged nineteen I became a student at the technical college, Brooklands which lay then as now on the fringes of Weybridge, an affluent outer suburb of south west London. In semi-pastoral Brooklands as in my beloved Santiago de la Ribera, I learned to be a social being after years of semi-seclusion,... More..
Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Sailor stories: 4 of 9
My First Trip with HMS Thames 1973 was the year of my first trip with the Royal Naval Reserve at 17 years old on the minesweeper HMS Thames, destined as I recall for Bordeaux, during which I fell in with an immensely good-hearted Londoner of about 27, an Ordinary Seaman like me who went on to become one of my best RNR friend... More..
Entertainment > Music Genres, Trends & Scenes What it means to be a punk: 7 of 14
I was seduced by the Punk cult back in '77, and here is an extract from my autobiographical writings concerning that strange time, looking back from the perspective of a Christian, as I am today: Having been impressed by the hairstyle of one of a coterie of Punks I knew by sight from nights out in Dartford, a large suburban ... More..