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Mary's Missing Teapot
A few words of commiseration and respect for all those who have ever lost a teapot.
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Django, Gitáno Gitaristo (Django, Gypsy Guitarist)
For Django Reinhardt, my guitar hero.
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Admissions Impossible
A few lines scribbled to occupy the time between going to bed last night and getting up this morning.
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Our Old Girl… Remembering Coral
I knew Coral (seashore) for only the final two of her eighty-six years. Around our love and sadness for her late daughter Julia (Overthetop1), who herself had been a dear friend forty years before, we formed an incredible bond in that short time. She once described herself as an old crock. To me she was an old crock of gold.
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Fire and Rain
If Stevie Wonder had lived in Equatorial Guinea, he’d probably still have thought there was nothing hotter than July in Bulgaria. Here’s one hundred words per day to describe the last fifteen days of a very sweaty month.
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What's going on?
Posted on Mon, 23 Mar 2026
What I have written today is part four of a ten-part series in which each part is written by a different member of ABC Tales.
If you click on this link you’ll see a full explanation of what’s going on.
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Monster
Posted on Mon, 23 Mar 2026
Hello Luigi.
I’m excited to find out what happens next in the sleepy little town. It’s a place of great mystery and intrigue. The story’s advertised as a ten-parter but that’s what they said about Coronation Street in 1960. Have we ABC...
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What's next? Who's next?
Posted on Mon, 23 Mar 2026
Thank you very much Tom.
It’s the end of Mornington Heights as we knew it, but it’s not the end of the story.
I can’t wait to read about what will happen to its residents now that I have finished with them.
Will you be adding...
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Good idea!
Posted on Thu, 19 Mar 2026
Good idea!
And part four is approaching completion.
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Of course!
Posted on Sat, 07 Mar 2026
Well isn't that lot just exactly what I wear all the time?
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This is such an honour.
Posted on Sat, 07 Mar 2026
Oh, I don’t know where to start. This is such an honour. I’d like to thank my mother and the milkman, my agent, my homeopath, my acupuncturist, the Dagenham Girl Pipers, Johnny Ten Levs, the team at Mucky Monika’s Massage Parlour, and last but...
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Shame
Posted on Sat, 14 Mar 2026
Knowing what to say, either way, is very difficult and explaining exactly what is expected or not expected from a simple meet up for a drink can take the shine off the circumstances that have led up to it. It's a huge shame that we have this...
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Cheeky, or not cheeky
Posted on Sat, 14 Mar 2026
There are different levels to this, in my opinion. At the bottom there's the dark threatening expectation of something intimate happening and at the top there's the cheeky innuendo.
Cheeky innuendo makes the world go round. When I was...
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Toothy
Posted on Sat, 07 Mar 2026
Fangs for that Jenny.
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The B52s
Posted on Sat, 07 Mar 2026
My kids and I were out in the car one day that must have been in 1999 and we went past Fairford. On the runway there were about a dozen B52 bombers revving up their engines in readiness for taking off to bomb Belgrade (they have a new target...
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