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Early Lateness
If I could turn back time, I’d write a song about it.
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The Concept of Rain at a Jaunty Angle
The Donegal Dally. The fifth of several parts.
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Singin' in the Buncrana Rain
Whilst dallying in Donegal we wondered how it was going in Inishowen. The fourth of several parts.
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Shillelagh Shopping
Dallying in Donegal and dabbling a bit in Derry. The third of an ever increasing number of parts.
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To the Lighthouse Café
Dallying in Donegal and dabbling a bit in Derry. The second of a fair few parts.
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Sex and drugs and distribution substations
Posted on Mon, 31 Aug 2026
In the early eighties we all used to go to nightclubs just to listen to the music. The dancing and sex all took place in the offices of the electricity board.
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Helen's Two Johns
Posted on Fri, 04 Sep 2026
Thanks Kat!
At least Mohammed had his three Ms. In terms of naming babies Gloucestershire people could learn a thing or two from Libyans.
There was a kid at my school in Leeds called Declan Declan but he was more Roman Catholic than...
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Electricity Bored
Posted on Mon, 31 Aug 2026
Many many years ago I worked in the pensions department at the Central Electricity Generating Board in Harrogate, and then the privatised abomination that was National Power in Swindon. I always despised Thatcher but the countless hours of...
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Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
Posted on Tue, 01 Sep 2026
Humour with rythym and rhyme! Excellent stuff! Thank you Makis for putting a smile on my face.
I hope you've submitted your creation for publication in the Basingstoke Gazette. It might earn you enough money to stay ahead of your kids a...
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Good luck!
Posted on Mon, 31 Aug 2026
I wish you the very best of luck with your novel Harry. The end process you have described has always put me off trying to get anything of mine published. I love writing but I really can’t be bothered with bureaucracy (if that’s the right word),...
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Lawless
Posted on Mon, 31 Aug 2026
I saw that video clip and I found it absolutely sickening. The territory occupied by Israelis seems to be a totally lawless place where no life has any value. I can't understand why so many people in the world fail to see this and do something...
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True enough
Posted on Sat, 29 Aug 2026
Aye, that's true enough Kat. A bad place is an even badder place if it's someone else who's sent you there or if you can't leave.
I'd rather live in Middlesbrough than Khan Yunis.
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Aer Linguistics
Posted on Sat, 29 Aug 2026
Geezaweebaddlagannass... a Nrn Irn sentence in a single word.
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Sabrina from Bedminster
Posted on Fri, 28 Aug 2026
Perhaps it’s too much rain sent by the goddess that makes your knowledge of Celtic mythology rusty Kat. Mine’s the same.
I’m not familiar with Danu but, having visited the beautiful Beara Peninsula in West Cork a couple of years ago, I...
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The beastly Boro
Posted on Fri, 28 Aug 2026
It's great to learn new words, and new songs, especially when they're a bit cheeky.
The one thing that Middlesbrough has in common with Chippenham is that my family were only passing through. They're not originally from there (apart from...
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