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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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Violetta Are You Better?
If Stevie Wonder had lived in Bulgaria, he’d have realised that there’s nothing hotter than July. Here’s one hundred words per day to describe the first sixteen days of a very sticky month.
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The funny thing about working in IT
Posted on Fri, 26 Jun 2026
It’s twenty-one years since I left my IT job so I may qualify as an old IT-er but I still had to do a bit of Googling to get your joke. Nice one though!
I can’t think of anything funny from my time in IT except when my boss was losing an...
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Was it a Norwegian Blue?
Posted on Fri, 26 Jun 2026
How on earth did your cat manage to get hold of a parrot? They’re almost as big as a cat so not easy to trap, and I’d imagine they’re a rare commodity in rural England. I feel very sorry for the poor parrot but fair play to the cat. Might it have...
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Strays
Posted on Fri, 26 Jun 2026
That’s a lovely story Kat, but not all stray cats are as easy to befriend or adopt. The only one that we have taken in as an adult is Manoushka, a three-year-old that had been an apartment cat but when her elderly owner died the family threw her...
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Cats and dogs
Posted on Fri, 26 Jun 2026
Stray animals are a problem not just in Bulgaria but in most of the world’s poorer countries. The stray dog problem here is an even bigger problem than the cat problem. There are some volunteer groups who catch the dogs and have them neutered...
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Septic cats, etc
Posted on Fri, 26 Jun 2026
Hello Di.
It’s mostly Ludo that has the septic problems but whichever one it is that’s suffering, it’s usually because they’ve been fighting with the strays in the street. Ludo also has a lot of plant and insect allergy problems so we keep...
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Freedom
Posted on Fri, 26 Jun 2026
You could spend an eternity talking about eternity only to discover that you're excluded from it.
Free your mind and the rest will follow.
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Happiness Is a warm goat
Posted on Fri, 26 Jun 2026
There’s another amazing Bulgarian fact coming soon!
During my recent absence from ABC I noticed that the mighty Villa won a trophy. May I take this opportunity to congratulate you on that?
And as for your temperatures, well welcome...
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Scared
Posted on Wed, 24 Jun 2026
My feelings entirely Jane. It has become obvious that the people in power will stop at nothing to make money. I'm scared too.
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Gazza
Posted on Wed, 24 Jun 2026
Apparently Paul Gascoigne used to hide two fish in different places in people's cars. So when they found one fish they thought they had solved the problem but they were badly mistaken.
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Vengeance
Posted on Wed, 24 Jun 2026
What an excellent array of anti-boss vengeful activities. The very things that I would have liked to have done on my last ever day working for nasty people. I had a friend who once sneaked into a pub he had been sacked from and concealed a fresh...
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