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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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Clochán an Aifir (The Giant’s Causeway)
Not too far from where I once lived, this place has mesmerised me since I was six.
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Introducing Turlough Ó Maoláin, Performance Poet
My April, the second of two parts, and restricted to 100 words per day because less is more, and I am the Ludwig Mies van der Rohe of village gossip.
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The Fish on the Hill
My April, the first of two parts, and restricted to 100 words per day so that I can’t be accused of banging on about it.
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Bossy people
Posted on Fri, 20 Feb 2026
My fitness regime amounts to this...
Any exercise is good provided you don't have to pay a subscription or wear lycra to do it.
Gardening is best. It's a great feeling when the muscles are aching at the end of a day but your lungs...
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Dennis Bergkamp
Posted on Sat, 21 Feb 2026
Thanks IPFN. I’ll send the link on to my son. He tried to sell his collection about twelve years ago and nobody was interested and since then nobody’s even taken him up on his offer to give them away. Not even the National Football Museum in...
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Buddha
Posted on Sat, 21 Feb 2026
I get the impression that the factory that made the badge also made them for other shipbuilders around the country. They were based (and still are based, apparently) in Birmingham whereas the shipyard was in the distant North East.
Ship...
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Wembley Teeth
Posted on Sat, 21 Feb 2026
I love meeting people who have witnessed historic events that nobody else around seems to have been at. That match at Wembley in 1953 must have been brilliant to see, so good on your Dad.
I used to work with a man who was at the 1966 World...
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Powerful
Posted on Fri, 20 Feb 2026
I read some wonderfully powerful words in this, especially...
It’s a shit-stained, twenty-four hour imbroglio
The way you read it with the musical backing track made it all the more dramatic.
Good on you!
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Gene
Posted on Fri, 20 Feb 2026
Poor old Jezebel. But at least Gene loves Jezebel.
We all talk to spirits in the desert. Their voices fly in the wind. And it’s better than talking to Manchester United supporters.
I was going to wish you luck for this afternoon but...
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Running
Posted on Fri, 20 Feb 2026
It was my knees that made me give up running, together with a bit of laziness, but before the niggleing pains got me I went through all the mid-life personal bests and internal competitiveness stuff that you've described. And although it...
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Mint tea
Posted on Wed, 18 Feb 2026
Hello Jenny.
Thank you for reading this. You've pretty much grasped what I had in mind but the man's not dead. He's in a desolate space somewhere with his gravestone waiting for him in the background, though it doesn't really matter how...
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Wonderful stumble
Posted on Tue, 10 Feb 2026
That’s a wonderful thing to stumble upon on a walk Jenny. I can see how and why it inspired your poem. It’s amazing what interesting things we have around us that so often go unnoticed.
I haven’t had such a discovery but I love it when I...
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You never know
Posted on Wed, 18 Feb 2026
I used to be such a determined singleton that people would call me Valerie. I met another determined singleton purely by accident and that determined singleton status was the main thing that we had in common and enough to bring an end to the...
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