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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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Plantar dermal fissures and onychomycosis.
Posted on Thu, 07 May 2026
Back in the days when I was the sort of person who left the house each morning to earn a shilling as a domiciliary chiropodist, I took comfort from the fact that there’d never be a computer programme or robot capable of taking my job. And cracked...
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Sparkly Homes
Posted on Fri, 08 May 2026
Oh Jenny, I can understand why there were tears but to be able to write about this as you have done shows great bravery.
I’m sure there will be more hospital visits to come, as you have predicted, so please tell us how the treatment goes...
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It’s Morphin Time!
Posted on Wed, 15 Apr 2026
That's brilliant Jane. Awash with humour AND a Mighty Morphin Power Ranger, it couldn't be bettered.
And many thanks for taking my place in the challenge. You've done far better than I suspect I would have done.
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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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The Clangers
Posted on Sat, 04 Apr 2026
What are they expecting to find on the Moon? Oil or weapons of mass destruction?
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What's to be done?
Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2026
I agree with you entirely Kat. I support charities that support Third World problems and I boycott so much stuff there’s not much left to give up. One of my biggest pleasures is Spotify but it’s also a major source of guilt in my life. Apart from...
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Say, don't you remember? I'm your pal.
Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2026
Once I built a railroad, I made it run
Made it race against time
Once I built a railroad, now it's done
Buddy, can you spare a dime?
Brilliant song! There are many versions of but I think Ronnie Lane (formerly of the...
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The Butler
Posted on Sat, 28 Mar 2026
I wouldn't put it past him. It was Lambert and Butler that saw off my Auntie Jessie.
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