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School Reunion
Dear diary...looking back on the year 1990, I was reminded of an unexpected letter that arrived asking me if I'd like to attend a school reunion. Due...
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Dare To Dream
(For my Husband) Moons flew by, long ago, Cocooned in a curse. Howls mournfully Cried out: Smothered by a mask with Resounding echoes of Rushing...
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Steelie.
A big guy stood at the pub door like he’d just put on a new suit and didn’t want to get his life creased. He slid into the chair beside Steelie, his...
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BITING THE BULLET.
Dementia is no joke! I have met people with dementia and my Mum has it. Because Mum has dementia, I decided to eat olives. When I first started to...
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Vishta And Vishnu
A Story of endless Love The royal princess Vishta Kirvaka with Vishnu Ramanjuan were to be bound by holy matrimony arranged at birth a traditional...
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Goose-Stepping Down Main Street
I’m too old to start goose stepping. Duck walks I can handle—my declining years having given me no choice. But it should make it easier to duck...
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The Book: Chapter 11.
She fumbled with her bag, stuffing in a notebook, her keys, and her phone. She hadn’t slept much again. Mick was still in hospital after an operation...
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The Hidden Vault
The Hidden Vault By Paul McCann While the banks were trying to stay trading the war was almost in motion and staff were working overtime to try and...
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Comfort in the darkness
Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Tedious night, how deep the darkness – need to sense your fellowship, grace almighty wise upholding,...
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Shenanigans with Catkins
January 2025 (the latter part) and the things that I saw and did in my usual one hundred words per day sort of way.
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Searching For Sailortown
Searching For Sailortown By Paul McCann In 1989 I went back to Ardoyne in Belfast in search of Sailortown . Daddy was born in Great Patrick street in...
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The Man Who Made Then Laugh
The Man Who Made Then Laugh by Paul McCann During his time on this earth Frank Carson was the man who made them laugh , In his own words , it was the...
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The Speedy ( Part 1)
In 1969, two men were the first humans to walk on the moon. Their names were Neil Armstrong and Edwin Eugene Aldrin, also known as Buzz. The story...
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the post office carnage
What some people can do in a situation to entertain themselves, can sometimes be so wrong!
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FUND.
Finaly, it seems I have found the perfect site to sell all my clothes, bags, and shoes! Meghan set me up on it last week, and very quickly I sold my...
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FRIENDS.
Had a lovely text this morning from a friend Holly, to say, “We are arranging a surprise birthday party for Masie.” I thought, how lovely, she SO...
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The Mandarin Cherries
January 2025 (the early part) and the things that I saw and did in my usual one hundred words per day sort of way.
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New Directions (27)
A call to Dev didn’t happen. A snotty AI voice pretending to be a female explained in staccato tones the number was unavailable – a lie and not a lie...
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The Book: Chapter 10
The forest closed in, shadows thickening as the rain blurred shapes ahead that seemed to move—and hide—and elude her. The shadows deepened as the...
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Paradise found
The chairman does not cry. He is too old, too mature, too experienced for it. But it is clear that he is affected. And he is not alone. The members...
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