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I'm originally from Liverpool and worked as a national magazine journalist for more than 30 years before suffering a stroke at age 53. I started blogging as part of a neuro-rehabilitation programme and wrote the very first entries with one finger of my disabled left hand. Later, art became another therapy for me at Headway East London's Submit To Love Studios. I write about my daily activities and encounters. In 1988, I married Jane. We are still together today, sharing our lives and making each other laugh.

Diary: February 2020. Uncut.

March 23, 2020April 7, 2021 ~ Billy Mann ~ 3 Comments

Includes a trip to Winchester to, 'Rasputin' Cummings and a stubborn dried sick stain

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Diary: January 2020. Uncut.

January 31, 2020June 3, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

Includes Tenerife for Winter sunshine, several Liverpool games and first steps in wax monoprinting.

Scrapbook 2019

January 11, 2020January 27, 2021 ~ Billy Mann

2019 as it happened

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Scrapbook 2018

January 1, 2019July 16, 2019 ~ Billy Mann ~ 2 Comments

Includes the death of an old friend, a Liverpudlian schoolboy who wants to be a spy, and our 30th anniversary in Brussels.

Scrapbook 2017

January 1, 2018July 16, 2019 ~ Billy Mann ~ 1 Comment

Includes an experiment in Trust, a trip to Portugal and a futile attempt to see the upside.

Scrapbook 2016

January 1, 2017July 16, 2019 ~ Billy Mann ~ 1 Comment

Includes a trip to Malta, a tribute to the UK's National Health Service and stuff about Brexit.

Scrapbook 2015

January 3, 2016September 16, 2019 ~ Billy Mann ~ 1 Comment

Includes a lot of sarcasm and dark humour, a review of a film that made me cry and a micro story about a boy with an imaginary Dad.

Upper limb boot camp

February 15, 2015July 27, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

Slow and shaky, the words started to come

Stroke archive

January 31, 2015August 1, 2023 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

This archive started in 2015 as a diary I made during stroke rehabilitation clinic

Scrapbook 2014

January 15, 2015January 27, 2021 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

Includes an imaginary showstopper on The Great British Bakeoff, the charms of fictional Venetian detective Guido Brunetti and paintings inspired by Google Maps.

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