Turlough
Primary tabs
Pages
My stories
Crado Come Home
Me and the world around me during the second half of July 2024, in 100 words per day.
- Read more about Crado Come Home
- 20 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 4663 reads
All the President’s Biscuits
Me and the world around me during the first half of July 2024, in 100 words per day.
- Read more about All the President’s Biscuits
- 15 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 3313 reads
Candi Staton, the Sea and Me
Memories of my last night before becoming a salty sea dog. It all happened at the Devon public house in the fashionable Cross Gates district of Leeds, round about the end of August 1976.
- Read more about Candi Staton, the Sea and Me
- 22 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 4654 reads
Tang Hall Beck
Sunny Saturdays with the sticklebacks and my friend John Lancaster. A memory of York from 1966.
- Read more about Tang Hall Beck
- 20 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 4211 reads
Eric’s War
A concise history of World War Two as told to me long ago by my dear old friend Eric. Additional material was provided by his lovely wife Peggy.
- Read more about Eric’s War
- 20 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 3351 reads
Tony & Kirk
Posted on Sun, 12 Oct 2025
Nice one Jenny! A great poem and well deserving of the golden delicious.
I've never seen the Vikings television series but when I was a kid I loved the film of the same name that had Tony Curtis and Kirk Douglas in it. There's one bit...
Read full commentPosted in Floki's Viking Spirit
Euro cash
Posted on Fri, 26 Sep 2025
Ha ha! Saint Pay Up would be a great name for a fella on our money. St P is only going on the Bulgarian euro coin, not the notes. Every country in the Eurozone has it's own euro coin but they all use each other's. The euro banknotes are the same...
Read full commentPosted in Bring Me the Head of St. Paisius of Hilendar
Bringing in the Sheaves
Posted on Thu, 25 Sep 2025
Those flaxen days are footprints of life these days Jenny, not just of summer. In recent years I've watched farmers taking in the hay. The machinery they have is so advanced that they can do it at night in the rain. Farming is well and truly an...
Read full commentPosted in Footprints Of The Season
Sunny Swindon
Posted on Thu, 25 Sep 2025
It's hard to imagine Swindon without Honda. I bought a Honda Civic in 2002 and was mocked for buying a foreign car but in actual fact it had been built only thirty miles away from where I lived.
It's funny how I have a soft spot for the...
Read full commentPosted in Scary Event
Groundwell Trading Estate
Posted on Thu, 25 Sep 2025
A noise in the night is always ten times louder than a noise in the day so I'm not surprised you couldn't sleep Jenny, especially as bombs seem to be so much more popular these days.
I hope there's no repetition.
I Googled...
Read full commentPosted in Scary Event
6°C
Posted on Thu, 25 Sep 2025
Sorry for the delay IPFN. I've been away for a couple of weeks but catching up now. It's still pleasantly warm and sunny in Bulgaria but where we were in Donegal it was cold, wet and windy most of the time. If that saying 'a change is as good as...
Read full commentPosted in A Different Tetsubin of Sushi
Florence
Posted on Thu, 25 Sep 2025
Hello Jenny.
The pet situation has been very stressful lately, particularly during the last week or so. Watch this space for more news and hang on to your hat.
Have you ever seen the film Florence Foster Jenkins in which Meryl...
Read full commentPosted in A Different Tetsubin of Sushi
Never
Posted on Sun, 24 Aug 2025
It seems like forever and ever they've been saying never again.
I like the clever way you've used powerful words to cover just about every aspect of how mankind has gone about destroying itself. It's a pity mankind itself isn't a bit...
Read full commentPosted in Never A Gain
Reassurance
Posted on Mon, 25 Aug 2025
I think every writer finds reassurance in the knowledge that they aren't the only ones who suffer from writer's block. Your words of self-reassurance are certainly reassuring to me. So thank you for that Jenny.
Read full commentPosted in When All Seems Lost
Welcome
Posted on Mon, 25 Aug 2025
I hope the new Jacks of this world make a better job of it than we have done, for new Jack's sake.
A beautiful poem to go with a beautiful event.
Welcome Jack.
Read full commentPosted in Lit
Pages