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Reasons to Be Bulgarian… Naz-dra-vee!
Bulgaria… a paradise that’s maybe a bit rough round the edges. This beautiful country may not be perfect but it’s the perfect home for me and Priyatelkata. We could never live anywhere else. I took my inspiration from Hristo Botev, my lovely neighbours and Ian Dury.
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The Targovishte Quandary - Part 3 of 3
My dark and disturbing encounter in Eastern Europe – it’s the final countdown!
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The Targovishte Quandary - Part 2 of 3
My dark and disturbing encounter in Eastern Europe continues.
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The Targovishte Quandary - Part 1 of 3
My dark and disturbing encounter in Eastern Europe.
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The Treadmills of My Mind
It’s that ole devil called insomnia again, where I’m entertained by the dark columns of the world’s problem page.
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Moving words
Posted on Tue, 30 Jul 2024
Such moving words Jenny. You did very well to write them. I don't think I would be able to touch such an awful topic.
I can sometimes see a slight trace of a motive that might make an atrocity understandable, though not forgivable, but I...
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Ol' Blue Eyes
Posted on Thu, 25 Jul 2024
Frank Sinatra might have been the person who got this ball rolling. He had a hit entitled 'From the Bottom of My Heart' a fair few years before I was born.
But watch out for typos!
'From the heart of my bottom' would change the...
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Positive attitude
Posted on Wed, 24 Jul 2024
There have been times when it's been necessary for me to get myself extra super fit for walking and cycling trips that I've sometimes foolishly agreed to go on but generally I've avoided physical exercise for great swathes of my life.
So...
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Hello dear Jenny.
Posted on Wed, 24 Jul 2024
Hello dear Jenny.
I'm very sorry to hear that you're still suffering with your illness. I hope someone or something can improve your health and mobility soon. I admire you for continuing to write your poetry through it all.
Your...
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Yellow Stickers
Posted on Mon, 22 Jul 2024
Dear TR Maxine,
Do you realise that your latest comment is about ten times longer than your original story? That's impressive. Thank you for enlightening me though. I used to work near a branch of TR Maxx in Bristol but, suspecting that it...
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Sober inebriatist, drunken teetotalist
Posted on Tue, 23 Jul 2024
Excellent words containing a lot of very well thought out rhyme that frantically jumps off the page to emphasise the utter desperation.
Silent Death recaps his ink... a brilliant penultimate line!
I'm not sure if enjoyed is...
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The hole in the ground
Posted on Mon, 22 Jul 2024
Our garden is indeed very big. Friends tell us it is more like a park than a garden. We have hundreds of trees so maybe to be buried under one of the smaller walnuts will be a possibility, though I'd prefer the big ancient one that I often sit...
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Roots
Posted on Mon, 22 Jul 2024
It's emotional blackmail. The vets know that people with raw emotions will find the money.
We just bury ours in the garden. There's even a space for me. It's just beside the redcurrant bushes. I would have preferred to be beneath the...
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Sheds
Posted on Sun, 21 Jul 2024
I had thought about writing a story just like yours but it would have meant sorting our shed out a bit first which would be quite a task so I'll just read yours.
Intriguing stuff it is too!
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Eric's PTSD
Posted on Fri, 19 Jul 2024
I think grumpy old Eric had PTSD long before the outbreak of World War Two and the Icelanders only shot him (no one else, as he could recall) so that he'd go home. During the years that I was living near to Bath the majority of the buses there...
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