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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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When Life Gives You Flags
Part Four of the Flour of Sri Lanka series. Kavinda’s proudest moment.
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JP?
Posted on Sat, 28 Mar 2026
My brain hurts... who is the real Jay Padgett?
Have I missed something? Is he the gadgey that runs the meat raffle in the Red Lion?
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Wonderful People
Posted on Fri, 27 Mar 2026
Thanks very much Di. I’m glad you liked it. And I see what you mean about the IP thing but I’m already started on a new one for this week.
I think it’s poorly guarded secret that Bulgaria’s been getting oil from Russia, via Romania, for...
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Treks
Posted on Fri, 27 Mar 2026
Chippenham was quite a nice place when we moved there in 1996 but, as is typical of small towns in England, it had gone downhill significantly by the time I left. I still catch bits of news about it on the BBC News website and the level of crime...
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Say cheese!
Posted on Fri, 27 Mar 2026
I quite enjoy a double Gloucester with ice and soda.
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Meaty
Posted on Fri, 27 Mar 2026
The Red Lion certainly rings a bell. If my memory serves me right you'd come out of the pub and turn left, and then the Indian restaurant was about 100 metres up the road on the left hand side.
Our main reason for hesitating when being...
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Whoopsie!
Posted on Fri, 27 Mar 2026
Eww, Betty! The cat’s done a whoopsie in the library!
Great writing as usual Paul, but you’ve got Nadeen and Nadeem
And perhaps she was poring over her latest reading material.
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Plovdiv vs Cricklade
Posted on Fri, 27 Mar 2026
Harper confided in me that she was the sister of Frankie Valli, she was cursed by PTA, and in 1968 Jeannie C. Riley had a big hit with a song about her.
Harper contributed only one piece to my emigration plan jigsaw puzzle. There were many...
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Sigh!
Posted on Mon, 23 Mar 2026
A Plovdiv-Tarnovo Compostition
There was young actor called Ryan
Who was very addicted to sighin'
He'd moan and he'd groan
As he sat all alone
In a caff that had no shepherd’s pie in...
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Brian Gosling
Posted on Mon, 23 Mar 2026
Hello Kat.
I had to look up Ryan Gosling on Google, but this is what happens to those of us who live outside the hustle and bustle of Plovdiv society.
Any road, I’ll kick off…
There was young actor called Ryan
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What's going on?
Posted on Mon, 23 Mar 2026
What I have written today is part four of a ten-part series in which each part is written by a different member of ABC Tales.
If you click on this link you’ll see a full explanation of what’s going on.
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