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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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Bedsit Days On The Cliftonville
Bedsit Days On The Cliftonville By Paul McCann Back in 1989 I was looking for a place to live and as a single person it was hard to find a place in...
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Cliftonville Will Have Their Day
Cliftonville Will Have Their Day By Paul McCann Come on Cliftonville , now’s it’s time to play , its your day . Hold up the Irish Cup , don’t let...
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Irish Traditions At The Years End
Irish Traditions At The Years End By Paul McCann - When I look back at the things people used to do At the end of the year in Ardoyne and the bone ,...
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1:5:1 Quatarr (Part 2)
It was uncanny how similar it was for both of them. They both awoke in their relative sleeping area; they both went outside and they both looked up...
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Why do I stay alive?
During my first year of medical school, the Director of Well-Being & Integrative Medicine, Dr. Anne Weisman, gave one lecture that I will never...
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