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The Sad Demise of the Plastic Triceratops
A bit of retail psychotherapy.
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Fifty-One Empty Places at the Dinner Table
Who can sleep while the genocide goes on in Gaza? Certainly not me.
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Aura Urziceanu’s Lullaby Effect
The adventures of an immigrant in Bulgaria during the latter half of May, recounted at the rate one hundred words per day.
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Poor Penka’s Parting
The adventures of an immigrant in Bulgaria during the early half of May, recounted at the rate one hundred words per day.
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Murder in the Tesco Express
Based on a series of events witnessed over a number of years in my local convenience shop when I lived in the sleepy English town of Chippenham.
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Stella Artois
Posted on Mon, 05 Jan 2026
Ah, you were paying London prices, you see, and we were in Yorkshire. And Stella Artois was a bit too classy (i.e. unpronounceable) for us so we only had Skol.
I had a cousin who also spent some time in Holloway. Perhaps you know her.
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Conversion
Posted on Mon, 05 Jan 2026
The new Bulgarian euro coin looks almost identical to the old leva coin but it's worth twice as much. When I tell friends from outside Bulgaria, their brains whirr a bit and then they suggest to me that I've suddenly become rich. The good thing...
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Super, smashin', great!
Posted on Mon, 05 Jan 2026
Super, smashin', great! as JIm Bowen would have said had he been an ABCTales member. And perhaps he was, but before our time.
Also, thank you very much indeed. I'm delighted and honoured to be the subject of your verse, which I reckon is ...
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Poor Euro!
Posted on Mon, 05 Jan 2026
Aye, poor Ludo! I hope the pain in his leg isn’t as painful as the pain in the arse that he’s turning out to be. It’s a good job he’s a lovely cat. Even on the days that we’re at the vets’ without him they all ask how he’s getting on.
Our...
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Ludo and Lennon
Posted on Mon, 05 Jan 2026
Other musicians have died and I’ve felt very sad but the way in which John Lennon died really shook me. The next nearest tragedy for me was Kirsty MacColl who was cut to bits by the propeller of a rich Mexican’s motorboat. These days my...
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Pint
Posted on Sat, 03 Jan 2026
I agree with you about rhyming poetry. I enjoy reading it more if it rhymes. If I write a poem that rhymes I know when it’s finished but with non-rhyming stuff I never know until somebody tells me it seems alright. I’ve struggled with poetry all...
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Comatose
Posted on Sat, 03 Jan 2026
Only the best fairy tales have the word ‘comatose’ in them. Where fine rhyme and rhythm and humour meet you brought a smile to my face throughout.
I suspect that the last line a-hunting off he goes might be a medieval poetic...
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Enjoyed!
Posted on Fri, 02 Jan 2026
I enjoyed this Jane.
Totem was a simpleton and that’s what made him good... something I've observed amongst our cats and which divides them into two groups.
I also liked blood temperature. I'll remember that for...
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PS
Posted on Wed, 31 Dec 2025
PS I'm delighted that I got the final pick of he day of the year. It's a bit like having the Christmas No 1. You can call me Noddy from now on.
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Chestit Chesney
Posted on Wed, 31 Dec 2025
Ooooh! I’m very impressed!
Ee chestita Nova Godina na teb ee semee-eestvoto tee. (And Happy New Year to you and your family).
I’ve been thinking about the amazing grandmother and I’ve come to realise there’s a lot to be written...
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