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"Somewhere Full of Guiris" [Mr Martínez Twenty Five]
The Wild Rover Irish Pub in Barcelona is a much better place than I've made it sound, or at least it was when I was last there around 10 years ago. Image is a detail from a blog post illustration and has no copyright issues: source is https://www.barcrawlbarcelona.com/top-10-pubs-in-barcelona/
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Disenchantment 17
***** Hornblende was looking at the actual maps from the county, for the storm drain systems, as he could not find them online. Real paper maps. As...
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Disenchantment 16
After getting off the phone with someone he had questioned in another case that seemed to actually be somehow related to a current case, Blake...
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the last toot
the last toot our words were few and far between, garden chit-chat over a cuppa after I struggled my cycle up the hill – its basket filled with her ‘...
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Hodge Podge
Bags of memory lay across her back as she stared fascinated at the weedy exit from a farm that used to be. It was 63 years ago when Esther left the...
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The Eleventh Hour
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New outbreaks occur, In Leicester and Oldham. Manchester and Glasgow return towards lockdown, Now Leeds is at risk, and Birmingham again! Is there...
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Not Brownian Motion
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I am
Another old notebook, renewed by fresh purpose, lists of tasks unfinished, torn out and discarded, "This will be the last one I promise". The hollow...
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"You Can Keep The Scissors"[Mister Martínez part twenty-four]
Like Martínez, I'm still moving, so I'm still living. Image source Google Maps 2015. Think we're ok. No Coke-fiends at the Cafe as far as I know.
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Tenebris Interlucentem (into the darkness… light)
'into the darkness… light' a winter Wednesday open-mic in a dingy pub in Pontefract or was it Halifax? I don’t rate poetry but if the beer’s good and...
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"He's Written a Book, He'll Want The Whole World to Know"[Mister Martínez Twenty Three]
Sweep? How is this image connected to the story? (Think laterally...) I bet you love a puzzle. Image source is dlpng.com and free for non-commercial use.
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Long Lane
Long Lane after a skinful in Nellie’s, Beverley, I missed the last bus back to Hull and strode home the Long Lane way belting, Pack up your Troubles...
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Fifty
My cousin would've turned fifty today if he hadn't died in 2019. His name was John Brown and he was born on September 9, 1970. He would've been on...
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A Three-year old’s Imaginative Cave
Six doors and a tiny window …
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Drink and Be Merry
At the Oktoberfest.
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The Stimulus Payments We Received
Certain people hate Donald Trump but they should remember something. Trump gave us $1,200 stimulus payments, plus $500 per child. That money has...
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thoughts of Joanna
thoughts of Joanna Joanna was her proper name, she did not like diminutives so I called her Jo to wind her up we were never lovers in the sense of it...
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"Besides, I Don't Like Them Much" [Mister Martínez Twenty Two]
No more Mr Nice Guy... image source https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/street-art/q-flexibilidad-laboral-q-by-escif/ CC4.0
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