Autobiography

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Poem of the week

Under Late Spring Sky

Dear diary...although my attempt to create a patch of meadow didn't go to plan, I will hope to try again next year. These are my thoughts in a poem...

A Bad Deal! By Alfred Muggins

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23/1/23 Will there be anything of me left? Sign up for a proper job! Sell your time for an amount which really isn’t that much higher than the...
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Mucky Maureen

A fine poet once wrote… Sometimes we’d go to the Derrisford caff For a bottle of Coke and a bit of a laugh. We’d waste so many afternoons In the...
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Rediscovering Holes

This is a poem I wrote some time ago. Fifty-two years ago to be more precise. I rediscovered it the other day whilst searching in the loft for my...

I... I... I... I...

Dem bones, dem bones...
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Poem of the week

Colouring Outside The Lines

Gifted with a colouring book...
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Fat Bottoms in Cheap Chinese Trousers

Yes, 'fat bottoms in cheap Chinese trousers'. If I ever started a rock band, that's what I'd call it. But my dreams of auditioning for Jethro Tull...
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Rakia Maria – Part Two of Two

So I said to Priyatelkata ‘Isn’t it lovely?’ and she replied ‘Yes! It’s very lovely.’ Maria added, ‘Life and health!’ in Bulgarian, of course. What...
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Story of the week

Rakia Maria - Part One of Two

I love the month of March in Bulgaria. It heralds the beginning of a four-month long explosion of nature straight off the back of the iciest winters...
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