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Quizzing
Why does Jonny always insist on The Newie when he knows that the pub quiz is on? Every single week it’s the same thing: Me: DO YOU WANT ANOTHER PINT...
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My Heart Belongs to The Highlands (Part2)
Returning to school in mid-August brought a sadness amongst us kids. It symbolised the end. Although the summer days continued for a few more weeks,...
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My Heart Belongs to The Highlands (Part1)
There’s a large piece of my heart that will always belong to the Scottish Highlands. I was born there in the late 1970s; spending the first 18 years...
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Busking on Blisters - Chapter 8
Busking On Blisters By Paul McCann Chapter 8 A Gaelic Love The drive along Blarney street seemed to take a long time and I was pretty sure I had past...
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Persevere and Pray
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] No human wisdom is enough to help us when the way is tough. The best of human leaders fail, but One has...
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The Way it Happened in the Moment
The moment was razor sharp. The moment was as clear as glass. In all these years since it happened, I have never stopped living in the moment. All...
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One Wheel Too Few
Courier Company HR person: "Send the next candidate in please miss Jackson." Spiggot enters on unicycle and continues to cycle around the room during...
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Lockdown
Old Mrs Trelawney, who everyone used to think was mad because she never left her house, is now planning to sue the entire world under copyright...
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Look Up The Inferno
Behind de avenue, past de dump, and along de side of de Castletown River is whur dis year’s bonfire is happening. De last two weeks we’ve bin hauling...
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Chadpocalypse - 3:2 The Mission
Need to catch up? Check out the collection here: https://www.abctales.com/collection/chadpocalypse Previous Chapter 3:2 The Mission Chad opened his...
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Charity Shopping
Trust Jonny to try and haggle down the price of a £3 fleece in a charity shop. The absolute cheek of the boy, it’s astonishing… - I tell you what: if...
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Keep on Running
'Right, you lot!’ shouted Mr Stokes at the start of the PE lesson. ‘Three times round the block. Now. Run!' William’s heart sank, along with the...
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Hush
the sky is falling into silence upon the meadow and a prayer of awesomeness as sky blends colour into shades of gray and before the flush of dusk...
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Now's A Good Time For Sleep
If my father-in-law slept in strange room with a clockwork clock he would put it in the drawer amidst the linen....me? I miss the sound.
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Countdown
~ 12000 BC Sabre Tooth Tiger ~ 1650BC M ammoth 1681 D odo ~ 1890 Falkland Islands W olf 1918 Carolina Parak eet 1938 Schomburgk's Deer ~ 1960 Javan T...
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Get The F*** Out
It was 1981 and the arcade owner started to shout. He was furious and he told me to get the f*** out. I went in the arcade and I played Asteroids. I...
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Now's a good time
Now's a good a time to learn to touch my toes, Now's a good time to strike a new pose. Now's a good time to learn to bake and sew and drill and saw,...
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Busking on Blisters - Chapter 7
Busking On Blisters Chapter 7 The Open Spaces Belfast city centre was blocked to traffic so I left the car around the University area and took a walk...
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