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Mary's Missing Teapot
A few words of commiseration and respect for all those who have ever lost a teapot.
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Django, Gitáno Gitaristo (Django, Gypsy Guitarist)
For Django Reinhardt, my guitar hero.
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Admissions Impossible
A few lines scribbled to occupy the time between going to bed last night and getting up this morning.
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Our Old Girl… Remembering Coral
I knew Coral (seashore) for only the final two of her eighty-six years. Around our love and sadness for her late daughter Julia (Overthetop1), who herself had been a dear friend forty years before, we formed an incredible bond in that short time. She once described herself as an old crock. To me she was an old crock of gold.
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Fire and Rain
If Stevie Wonder had lived in Equatorial Guinea, he’d probably still have thought there was nothing hotter than July in Bulgaria. Here’s one hundred words per day to describe the last fifteen days of a very sweaty month.
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Israel
Posted on Wed, 02 Jul 2025
I agree with you entirely Ed.
We are constantly being brainwashed by the media. It seems that a huge chunk of the population of the so-called 'developed world' agree with the governments that support Netanyahoo but they do so simply out of...
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Fireflies and frogs
Posted on Sat, 21 Sep 2024
A couple of times in our garden, after a summer evening rainshower, I've seen small frogs that have swallowed fireflies. I only know this because I've seen the dull flashing from inside their throats.
This is a lovely poem Jenny. I really...
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Bernard Manning
Posted on Tue, 09 Jul 2024
The former existence of Bernard Manning pours doubt on the possibility that there has ever been a supreme being that's made us in their image.
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Kind words, Di. Thank you.
Posted on Fri, 21 Jul 2023
Kind words, Di. Thank you.
If it helps you keep the giggling under control I'll read something about my involvement with the bubonic plague on 12 August.
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Manchester... lah lah lah
Posted on Tue, 19 Aug 2025
I try to spend my mornings, at least, with my mind free of the world's horrors and atrocities. ABCtales is usually a grand place to make this escape as I drink my coffee. This Bulgarian style coffee that Priyatelkata describes as 'the coffee of...
Read full commentPosted in Mrs Muggins Goes On a Mini Tour of Italy, While the Butcher and the Clown Meet in Alaska! by Alfred N.Muggins
Groovy!
Posted on Sun, 17 Aug 2025
Did you ever watch The Fast Show with John Thomson's 'Jazz Club' parody sketches? They were hilarious in that they were such a close likeness of the reality.
There are only small snippets of jazz that I like, and Django is a lot different...
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Those pesky sleeps
Posted on Tue, 05 Aug 2025
You certainly should visit Bulgaria Paul. This country, like all of the countries in the Balkans, are encrusted in jewels of history and culture that the rest of Europe knows nothing about. As an example, have a look on Google for ...
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Carrying the weight
Posted on Sat, 12 Jul 2025
It's often incredible how we take on responsibility simply because nobody else is there to do it. Your poem contains powerful words that make the practical and emotional hardship that you went through really stand out, along with what you missed...
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Michael Wood but I wouldn't.
Posted on Tue, 01 Jul 2025
About twenty years ago my kids and I stayed a night in the village of Blarney. We didn’t go to the castle because we were all quite talkative already. The following morning, we left the guest house just as the sun rose to drive the few kilometres...
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A sad time
Posted on Fri, 27 Jun 2025
I know it's so very hard Jane. to lose a cat. New cats can be had, and they will be lovely little joybringers, but they can never be a replacement for those characters we've loved before.
We try to console ourselves with the thought that a...
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