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Letters on the Mat
Splat!
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Tobruk, Or Not Tobruk?
A breakfast meeting to remember, and one that transformed my way of broadening my outlook on the world.
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An Afternoon With Perperuna
Wouldn’t you just die without Georges Brassens and the Slavic gods?
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Hairy Bob from Heckmondwike
A difficult case of having to deal with an obscured view.
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That'll Be the Day
Wouldn’t you just die without Buddy Holly and the Crickets?
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Hurroo!
Posted on Mon, 14 Sep 2026
Hurroo for the good cells!
Boo to the reverberation!
And three cheers for Jenny!
It’s great to see you back writing poetry Jenny. I get positive reverberations from that.
Good on you. x
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Beetlebum
Posted on Mon, 07 Sep 2026
All the staff in the Dermatology and Venereal Department (DVD) drive a Hyundai Syphilis. It's part of some sort of sponsorship deal. The directors, however, each have a Volkswagen Chlamydia because they're a bit posh.
Meanwhile I've got my...
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Arab Springs
Posted on Fri, 04 Sep 2026
Never buy a bed in Benghazi. Those Arab springs play havoc with your back.
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Interference
Posted on Fri, 04 Sep 2026
I suspect those things are what most ordinary Middle Eastern people want. Unfortunately they are something that many of them previously had until taken away as a consequence of interference from governments in the so-called developed world.
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I couldn't make it up
Posted on Wed, 02 Sep 2026
I can’t do fiction. With all that reality rattling around in my head I can’t see the point of making stuff up. So I write autobiographically and embellish it to make it more interesting. So then technically it’s no longer autobiographical. But my...
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Nox
Posted on Wed, 02 Sep 2026
It’s great to spend time outside at night. Another world comes to life and you can almost pinpoint the month by the nature of the noises emanating from the nature. Who doesn’t love a tawny owl?
Perhaps you should set traps for the creeping...
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Ornaments
Posted on Mon, 31 Aug 2026
Kat, I’ve got the books, the pictures and the ornaments. And anywhere that there isn’t one of those, there tends to be a cat.
But doesn’t a big pile of books give such a lovely warm feeling? I’ve even got some very old Bulgarian books that...
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The past
Posted on Mon, 31 Aug 2026
What makes me feel terrible is that the actions of Netanyahu and his awful government, with the support of numerous other governments and powerful people around the world, have made me change the way I feel about the dark history that Jewish...
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Difficult
Posted on Mon, 31 Aug 2026
You're right Kat. Those people do give some hope, but is it enough? Although I try, I find it extremely difficult to view the current global situation regarding politics, religion, economics and the resultant wars in a positive way.
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Whirlwind
Posted on Mon, 31 Aug 2026
I get you Harry. It's when the thoughts cause such a whirlwind in the head that it becomes impossible to get on with anything.
The whirlwind seems to whirl faster every day but at least I find it comforting to be amongst books, even if I...
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