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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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Tan Remembered Toes
Paddling in the River Dun, we’d laugh hysterically as the peaty waters made our white Antrim feet appear a shade of tan.
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Island of Dreams
One day my wanderlust will take me to Great Yarmouth, but in the meantime here’s the Gulf of Kissamou.
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Our Ludo
Posted on Tue, 03 Feb 2026
Hello Kat.
Thanks for thinking about Ludo but really he’s grand these days. In the area where he had the hole in his leg the skin still looks a bit fragile but fur is growing over it gradually and he’s not in need of any special treatment...
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Exotica
Posted on Mon, 02 Feb 2026
Warm evenings spent in gardens always have a special feel to them. They conjure up exotica in some of the least exotic places. My own exotic memories of a Leeds council estate in the 1970s returned to the surface as I read your words. ...
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Songs of Praise
Posted on Sun, 01 Feb 2026
Every day I'm tapping away at my Cyrillic typewriter. I get the Ш key and the Щ mixed up. Thankfully the word Калашников only appears a couple of times in my latest novel, The Lady in the Lada.
Thora Hird was always a great woman to have...
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Consciousness
Posted on Sat, 06 Oct 2018
I agree with you there. People tell me I’m lucky to be living where I live now. I used to say that I wasn’t so much lucky as determined. But looking back there were so many things that happened, good and bad, without which I wouldn’t have ended...
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ABC & Cats
Posted on Sat, 06 Oct 2018
That’s an incredible story Harry. It’s incredible how things miraculously fall into place. I found ABCTales because of a friend who I knew a long long time ago and who had been a member before my time and died before I found her again. But as a...
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Life
Posted on Sun, 01 Feb 2026
Everything's hard to get your head round when you're a kid. I find that things are hard to get my head round now but I'm so glad I'm not five anymore.
And the bird and the cat... it's not so easy to do with humans but with pets the...
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Sunday Chilling
Posted on Sun, 01 Feb 2026
Hello Jenny.
There's not much chance of us seeing a New Snow Moon here either on account of there being so much new snow. It's been falling all day and we're told it'll continue to do so until around mid-day on Tuesday. So the sense of...
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Spider monitor
Posted on Sun, 01 Feb 2026
Ayup Kat.
I’d never heard of the Rorschach Inkblot Test until you brought it to light but I do remember doing the same sort of thing with poster paint in art lessons at school. Every single specimen came out as an enormously magnified ant’...
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Stars
Posted on Sat, 31 Jan 2026
While the world goes spinning all over the place we have our own axis and it's good that we stick to it.
And this line is a great line...
In your garden, the fruit trees bloom with stars.
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Grumbling
Posted on Wed, 28 Jan 2026
It's not really Bulgarian weather. We'd expect it to be twenty degrees colder than this at this time of year. However, two weeks ago it was just that and everyone was grumbling. No matter what the weather, people will grumble. Some of us just...
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