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Rakia Maria - Part One of Two
I love the month of March in Bulgaria. It heralds the beginning of a four-month long explosion of nature straight off the back of the iciest winters...
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Black Grape Cat Disorder
Osem our cat is black and white He’ll eat whatever comes in sight He eats all day and he eats all night No bounds exist to his appetite He eats...
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Our Man in Golubac
As sweat ran down my temples the man at the other end of the telephone line told me that he spoke Bulgarian, which came as a massive relief to me...
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Back in the M.A.F.F. - Part Two of Two
My dear colleague, Colin the Contortionist, really was called Colin but he was employed by the M.A.F.F. more as a Scientific Officer than as a...
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Back in the M.A.F.F. - Part One of Two
It was the first time I’d ever been asked the question ‘Are you allergic to silage?’ at a job interview. I couldn’t give a definitive answer because...
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Biden
Posted on Mon, 15 Apr 2024
It helps a little that even Biden seems to be dragging his feet this time.
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Despair
Posted on Mon, 15 Apr 2024
If any nation should know better than to do this, it is Israel. Their actions in Gaza are beyond belief but it seems that a bit of local genocide isn't enough for them. They are dragging us all into the Book of Revelation.
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Horror and mistrust.
Posted on Sat, 13 Apr 2024
The causative inept police force, the horror of the event and a government intent on a cover up. It all stinks.
I've read a lot about this. In previous semi-finals at Hillsborough fans from Tottenham and Leeds had felt that they were going...
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Seeing things
Posted on Wed, 10 Apr 2024
Maybe if you'd spent the £20 on another bottle of the strong drink you'd have seen stars.
An enjoyable read. I'm glad it finished on a positive note.
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The length of a stork's life
Posted on Tue, 09 Apr 2024
The length of a stork's life depends upon what you feed it on. They seem to have a fondness for butter substitutes.
There's an absolutely ancient one here with a Geordie accent that mutters on constantly about pink/purple hair, painful...
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The streets of Malki Chiflik
Posted on Tue, 09 Apr 2024
Ah, that's great news Drew. There'll be dancing in the streets of Malki Chiflik tonight.
Thank you very very much.
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Papa was a soothsayer.
Posted on Sat, 06 Apr 2024
Aren't all fathers soothsayers with the words 'told you so' poised on the tips of their tongues even if they hadn't told us so? I think my kids might say I'm guilty of that myself.
An entertaining look at the Gilded Cage. Nice one Jenny...
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And Smokey sings...
Posted on Sun, 24 Mar 2024
And Smokey sings...
Now, there's some sad things known to man
But ain't too much sadder than
The tears of a clown when there's no one around
When I was a kid clowns made us laugh but these days their...
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I wasn't picking...
Posted on Sun, 17 Mar 2024
Oh no P4AT. I wasn't picking you up on your writing.
I was merely remarking upon the harshness of the mom's critique. Some people (especially mothers) can't seem to get their heads round how difficult it can be to make a few lines rhyme....
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I recently watched a series
Posted on Thu, 21 Mar 2024
I recently watched a series on Netflix called 'The Fall' where a senior police detective (Gillian Anderson of X Files fame) trains herself to keep a dream diary that she makes entries in whenever she wakes up in the middle of the night. I thought...
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