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What a Waist
Eating food is a reason to be cheerful, and the pleasure I get from it is something I’ve attempted to celebrate here in the style of Ian Dury and The Blockheads. If you know their work you could perhaps sing along with my words.
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Was Danielle Steel in Steely Dan?
Marching on together through the latter sixteen days of the month at a steady rate of one hundred words per day.
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Is Kerry Katona a Cat Owner?
Marching on together through the first fifteen days of the month at a steady rate of one hundred words per day.
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A Hungry Bear Doesn’t Dance
No bears were harmed in the writing of this poem.
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Here's to You, Lady Liberty
Understanding why Carolina, Harper and I never met in the flesh.
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Verse Nine (for Jenny)
Posted on Sat, 27 Dec 2025
A poet plagued by Yuletide snot
Amidst great mounds of Kleenex grot
Observed proceedings from her cot
As soldiers danced with swords in kilts
To send some cheer to Swindon, Wilts
Read full commentPosted in Fête de Noël de Madame Priyatelkata
Our Man in Mornington Heights
Posted on Sat, 28 Mar 2026
Splendid stuff Paul. The plot is thickening like a good broth.
I'm itching to know what happens next and how the story finishes.
I think the butler did it.
Read full commentPosted in Penny’s Pass the Story Part 6
Hot wash
Posted on Sun, 15 Mar 2026
Years ago, my teenage daughter did the same with her precious iPod (not iPad). It was destroyed and she was devastated. So for her eighteenth birthday I bought her a new one. By purchasing it direct from the Apple website I was able to get a free...
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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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Recognition
Posted on Wed, 08 Apr 2026
My research in this field goes back more than sixty years.
Thank you for giving me the recognition. And thanks for the cherries.too, though they'd have been nicer in a pie with a bit of custard.
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Dave and Di
Posted on Sat, 04 Apr 2026
Righto. I'd read five of the six of them before I noticed the repetition.
Dave's a great name for a storm but I can't wait for the day we have Hurricane Higgins.
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WW3&4
Posted on Sat, 04 Apr 2026
But by then there'll be no oil, electricity, factories or megalomaniacal world leaders. After world war three there probably won't even be a world worth fighting over.
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