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  • Daisy2 (our tandem) Going Electric

    Daisy2 (our tandem) Going Electric

    A very (very) long break since our last post, so here’s just a glimpse of a big moment looming in our life, as Daisy2 our tandem prepares to be collected tomorrow, Monday July 11 2022, for delivery to Robin Thorn in Bridgwater to be, yes, electrified. I guess we’re feeling a bit like Bob Dylan…

    mbrayne

    July 10, 2022
    Cycling, EMDR, Miscellaneous Musings
    Cycling, Thorn Cycles
  • Petra Mueller remembers Aud

    Petra Mueller remembers Aud

    We’re very grateful to one of Audrey’s former students and summer visitors from Heilbronn, Petra Mueller, for the following memories of Mum, penned for readers in Germany and translated here with the help of Google Translate. Original article in German here – Petra has captured Mum to a T. 1985-86 I was staying at the…

    mbrayne

    May 31, 2021
    Brayne Family
  • The Crow Who Feared a Popgun

    The Crow Who Feared a Popgun

    In honour and memory of our inspirational, hugely talented – and complex – mother Audrey, her ashes now safely stored under our Sheringham stairs awaiting Lifeboat dispersal at sea next month, here’s posting a scanned and carefully edited copy of possibly the most influential book I have ever read, or had read to me. Conceived,…

    mbrayne

    May 30, 2021
    Brayne Family, Miscellaneous Musings
  • Going Out with Colour, Character and Cardboard

    Going Out with Colour, Character and Cardboard

    Death isn’t a subject I’ve written all that much about on this blog. But even if it took her a very long time (best part of a decade since her diagnosis with dementia) to get there, as these things go Mum had, and continues to have, a good one. The funeral is this Friday, May…

    mbrayne

    May 10, 2021
    Brayne Family, Death
  • Audrey Diana Brayne, RIP

    Audrey Diana Brayne, RIP

    Audrey Diana Brayne, a six-decade-long Sheringham community stalwart, died in the early hours of Wednesday 21st April, a few days before her 94th birthday. In the dark of that night, a truly unique light was extinguished, of a forward-thinking internationalist who championed issues, movements and protests long before they were fashionable. Audrey entered the world in 1927…

    mbrayne

    May 3, 2021
    Brayne Family
  • Being Aspergers, Part the Second

    Being Aspergers, Part the Second

    I probably don’t need to write this follow-up to my blog of March this year on being diagnosed, at 70, at last and rather late in life, with Aspergers/High-Functioning Autism. Indeed, just thinking about starting this piece reminds me just how difficult I’ve always found writing to be, whether agonising over a poem or short story for…

    mbrayne

    October 18, 2020
    ASD, Aspergers, EMDR, Health, Therapy
  • Reporting the Cold War for Reuters & BBC

    Reporting the Cold War for Reuters & BBC

    It was tremendous fun discussing with Ian Sanders of Cold War Conversations my years first as student in East Germany and the Soviet Union in 1971/72, and then covering the communist world for the next 20 years for Reuters and the BBC. Click the screenshots below for the recordings – first covering my student days…

    mbrayne

    July 1, 2020
    BBC, Media/Journalism, Romania, Russia, Tiananmen Square
  • Aspergers, Part 1

    I’m not quite sure how this post will unfold, other than to know that a) like my despatches from Beijing or the Cold War’s diplomatic frontline it will probably be too long, and that b) some old BBC friends and colleagues may already be sighing, “Oh dear, there he goes again.” Prompted by Fergal Keane…

    mbrayne

    February 3, 2020
    ASD, Aspergers, Brayne Family, EMDR, Health, Media/Journalism, Therapy, Tiananmen Square
  • Germany’s Moehne Dam and Brexit…

    Germany’s Moehne Dam and Brexit…

    Anglo-German friendship on display at the Moehne dam of Dambusters fame. Rapidly repaired in 1943, by forced labour, following death of 1600 civilians (including 1000 Russians) in the 7-metre-high tsunami unleashed by the dam’s breach. With Dunkirk, one of the great WW2 myths that, all these years later, helped fuel Brexit. To whose supporters I…

    mbrayne

    August 22, 2018
    2018 Danube Tandem, Cycling
  • Tandeming with Guenther and Irmgard, nearly 40 years on.

    Complete delight supping, stopping, tandeming, smiling at seriously real toy railways with old friends Günther and Irmgard Reichle in Menden on way home from the Danube. Old pictures of us cycling in Berlin 1980, then us today, then videos of Günther’s amazing train set in warm evening action. PS their tandem is the same Motobecane…

    mbrayne

    August 21, 2018
    2018 Danube Tandem, Cycling
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