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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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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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Monster
Posted on Mon, 23 Mar 2026
Hello Luigi.
I’m excited to find out what happens next in the sleepy little town. It’s a place of great mystery and intrigue. The story’s advertised as a ten-parter but that’s what they said about Coronation Street in 1960. Have we ABC...
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What's next? Who's next?
Posted on Mon, 23 Mar 2026
Thank you very much Tom.
It’s the end of Mornington Heights as we knew it, but it’s not the end of the story.
I can’t wait to read about what will happen to its residents now that I have finished with them.
Will you be adding...
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Good idea!
Posted on Thu, 19 Mar 2026
Good idea!
And part four is approaching completion.
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