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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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Penny’s Pass the Story - Part Four
Sheriff Milton is hoping to become lost in Paradise with Deputy Marindina.
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Teeth Tales - The Miser’s Guide to Molars
I swear on my eye teeth that not a word of this is true.
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The Aromatherapist of Kozloduy
Summary but certainly not summery, though quite springlike towards the end of the month. Using precisely one hundred words per day, here’s my account of the things that went on in my Bulgarian life during the latter fourteen days of February.
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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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Turpitude
Posted on Mon, 23 Mar 2026
A couple of glasses of turpitude and I'm anybody's.
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Italian cuisine
Posted on Thu, 12 Mar 2026
Twenty years before I tasted parmesan cheese for the first time, I heard a posh friend of our family talking about being in an Italian restaurant in London and having ‘parmies and cheese’ on her spaghetti. I’d only ever seen spaghetti from a...
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