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| Story | Better late than never | Caldwell | 6 | 10 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | All the Chai in China | Turlough | 17 | 10 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | The Border Ballads | Angusfolklore | 6 | 11 months 2 days ago |
| Story | Morning Coffee | mcscraic | 1 | 11 months 2 days ago |
| Story | The Day of the Drone - Luton to the Rescue | Turlough | 16 | 11 months 2 days ago |
| Story | The Day of the Drone - Gatwick Misery | Turlough | 13 | 11 months 2 days ago |
| Story | The Bower Flame Bird | skinner_jennifer | 24 | 11 months 1 week ago |
| Story | What Has Christmas Become | ruthmg | 6 | 11 months 1 week ago |
| Story | Pick Up | celticman | 11 | 11 months 1 week ago |
| Story | Why I'm a consistent and unabashed 'anti-vaxxer' | seannelson | 3 | 11 months 2 weeks ago |
| Story | Velvet Goldmine | Turlough | 33 | 11 months 2 weeks ago |
| Story | what comes after Christmas. | celticman | 20 | 11 months 2 weeks ago |
| Story | More n'24 <freestyle> | Kris | 21 | 11 months 2 weeks ago |
| Story | Eight Out of Ten Bulgarians | Turlough | 8 | 11 months 2 weeks ago |
| Story | Candles | luigi_pagano | 10 | 11 months 2 weeks ago |
| Story | Bandstand Leader | smokejack | 3 | 11 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | A Tale of Two Balkan Cities | Turlough | 18 | 11 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | Awake | celticman | 7 | 11 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | silent as need be | celticman | 6 | 11 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | The Meeting of the Waters | Turlough | 9 | 11 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | There You Go | airyfairy | 22 | 11 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | Strange Advent | D G Moody | 9 | 11 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | Tommy Cooper's Fez | luigi_pagano | 12 | 11 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | Christmas Skies | marandina | 23 | 11 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | Kathleen’s Secret | Turlough | 13 | 11 months 3 weeks ago |
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Eight Out of Ten Bulgarians
Described at the rate of exactly one hundred words per day (which isn’t many but at least I try), this is the crazy sort of stuff I found myself doing during the latter half of November.
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A Tale of Two Balkan Cities
Described at the rate of exactly one hundred words per day, this is what Turlough Ó Maoláins do for entertainment during the first half of the November month.
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The Meeting of the Waters
A few words about my love affair with one of Europe's great rivers and her little sister.
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Kathleen’s Secret
Based on an oft-told story of my father’s. Kathleen and the hat definitely existed until the early 1960s but I’d be a fool to promise that the rest of his tale is true.
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Boško’s Clouds
You never know what might happen when you delve into an old plastic ice cream tub.
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Paint pot
Posted on Wed, 09 Jul 2025
The pot of paint was to signify how angry he was with his wife and Michael the painter and decorator who was doing up his house... and his wife by all accounts.
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Mike vs Phil
Posted on Wed, 09 Jul 2025
Living less than a kilometre from us here in Bulgaria there's an eccentric reclusive Englishman called Michael Burberry who once had an affair with Phil Collins' wife and caused the break up of his marriage.
Here's a link to a Daily Mail...
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Flora and Fauna
Posted on Wed, 09 Jul 2025
According to Google Lens, the flower is from a plant called Woolly Foxglove, Rusty Foxglove or Grecian Foxglove and its correct botanical name is Digitalis Lanata. We found them growing wild so we're going back this week to see if the seeds are...
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Gnashers
Posted on Tue, 08 Jul 2025
That's exactly what happened Di. How did you know?
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Tibby
Posted on Sun, 06 Jul 2025
Cats come and go but they're always loved and always remembered.
Your words tell me that Tibby was very much a loved cat and character.
Nice one Jenny.
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Can’t we somehow coexist?
Posted on Mon, 07 Jul 2025
Excellent words to describe the most inhumane circumstances.
infanticide’s a great success
It is indeed. I don't know how Israel's butchers can get through a minute, let alone life, with that on their conscience. Oh hang on...
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The solution
Posted on Wed, 02 Jul 2025
It shouldn't have gone on at all David. It should have been stopped decades ago before it even started. But now it has started it could be stopped with a cut in the supply of arms to Israel whilst severing all business and aid ties with them....
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Blue proddy shite
Posted on Sun, 29 Jun 2025
Dunno why but I thought of you a few times while I was writing it CM.
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Outlet Village
Posted on Fri, 27 Jun 2025
You've brought back memories Jenny. I remember shopping for shoes with my kids in the Swindon Outlet Village. We always had to stand and gawp at the big 'City of Truro' steam locomotive in the food hall for twenty minutes to keep my son happy as...
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Palestine
Posted on Sun, 22 Jun 2025
There are many things that we should remember about Israel's occupation of Palestine since 1948, and about Britain's occupation of it for thirty years before that. But we don't. This problem is more than a century old.
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