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"Who Could be Selling Fish at this Hour?"
When feeling a bit blue or discombobulated, I usually find that a double bill of Bob Hope movies helps to bring back some perspective. Especially...
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One May Morning
One May Morning By Paul McCann One morning in May I heard someone say There’s been an agreement , it’s time to relent and on the TV it was good to...
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Burnt Words
Recent update concerning the following appeared in the press at the weekend. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herculaneum_papyri Base image a detail from wikipedia.org. Image "composited" @canva.com
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Feeling Good
Feeling Good Flowers bloom, set fragrance array sashay across the aroma per se as an Egyptian belly dancer displays the Percolating steam off the...
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Sean Happens 10
Tiredness and fag smoke glazed Sean’s eyes. He was falling asleep leaning against the work surface, but he wouldn’t give into it or go to bed. His...
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Messes and chaos sorted
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] …God’s Spirit hovered … brought in order – beauty born –… Today He sees your troubles, mess, His Spirit can bring peace … from chaos bring release.
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Undercover Agent 6
I had one failure in my career as an undercover parrot. Josh Hemmingway. Josh was a known villain, his gang of pulled off a number of robberies and...
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"Sounds Like They're Saying Words"
It is several years since I last drove the road to Aberdeen at 4.30am. Since then, many farmers appear to have cashed in on the great wind turbine...
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Bewitched
Bewitched This magic potion has blindfolded one's discerning taste. But now, it lures you from your favorite place. Is there anyone else here who’s...
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Bananas On The Moon
Bananas On The Moon By Paul McCann Jacky Cabama took a banana from out of his back pocket, then he peeled the skin, and then he jumped in the seat of...
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St Gabriels Home Of Champions
St Gabriels Home Of Champions By Paul McCann Ardoyne had many champions in different sports . There were a few tin huts and clubs that had been...
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The Postman Of Days Gone Past
The Postman Of Days Gone Past By Paul McCann Before mobile phones and facebook , there were letters that people wrote With greetings cards that were...
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Undercover Agent 5
The next morning Denton removed my sheet to feed me seed cake. I could see in his face that very moment when he realized I’d been there. That I had...
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Undercover Agent 4
It took several months, but eventually the information I’d extracted led to Standfast’s arrest and the wrapping up of many of his ongoing scams. I...
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Ha! Ha! Said The Clown (Dead Reckoning series - Part 7)
In which Archibald is miffed and Josiah is given something to think about!
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Have a Little Haircut, Have a Little Bob
I read somewhere that places we like going to for a day out are our ‘hygge’ places. Inverurie is one of mine. A lovely drive through yellow and green...
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I don’t want to adjust to bloody algorithms ( A manifesto for the sanctity of human thought)
Computer algorithms work on mathematical probabilities not actualities and therein lies their weakness they incapable of dealing with Actual reality...
New Directions (19)
A black phone on a cluttered desk started to ring in a friendly warbling tone. I reached out to pick up the handset and woke up relieved I wasn't...
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When we Felt Sorry for Them
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The best painting ever
Those last words. The man should not have uttered those. If he had just kept quiet. And if this wouldn’t have been possible. Just a greeting. A...
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