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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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When Life Gives You Flags
Part Four of the Flour of Sri Lanka series. Kavinda’s proudest moment.
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Rupees Appease
Part Three of the Flour of Sri Lanka series. Kavinda counts his cash.
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Taking Tea - Kavinda and Me
Part Two of the Flour of Sri Lanka series. Will you take tea, dear friend? Ceylon or Dundee?
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Lovely news
Posted on Sun, 01 Mar 2026
That's lovely news. Thank you very much IPFN. You've made my Baba Marta.
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Sinéad
Posted on Sun, 01 Mar 2026
Oooh Kat, I’m flattered.
If I’d only heard Sinéad O' Connor say my name I’d have been on a cloud for the rest of my life. I saw her perform live on stage once at the 2014 WOMAD festival near you. She was brilliant. I can’t say she was my...
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Guide dogs for the deaf
Posted on Sat, 28 Feb 2026
I’ve been living with the French lady for almost seven years and I’ve never seen her using hearing aids. Together we speak a combination of English, French and Bulgarian coupled with a few words from the language of whatever country we might be...
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Cracking
Posted on Fri, 27 Feb 2026
Perhaps we should spend a little less time talking about Aston Villa in these comments as every time I start to read something you have written I automatically assume that it’s set in Birmingham. I’d got through a fair few paragraphs of this...
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Cracking cheese Gromit
Posted on Fri, 13 Feb 2026
I’d be interested to know what you think of the Polish kashkaval. Where possible we’ve stopped buying food from supermarkets as, although not incredibly unhealthy, their cheese will probably contain preservatives. We buy cirene from a small shop...
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Say kashkaval!
Posted on Fri, 13 Feb 2026
Actually, kashkaval’s a bit rank. It’s like Edam that’s been left out of the fridge a couple of weeks. We only really use it for cooking or filing down the goats’ hooves. And they say 'say kashkaval' when they want you to smile for a photograph...
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The Glorious Five Year Plan of the Bulgarian Dairy Industry
Posted on Fri, 13 Feb 2026
My favourite cheese is Kashkaval
From cows reared near Plovdiv
The milk comes out quite lumpy
So they put it through a sieve
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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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