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For the Love of Irma Ogden
What I did during the first half of August 2024, at the rate of 100 words per day.
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No Country for Cold Men
Made in the shade of our covered terrace late in the afternoon on one of those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer.
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Benches & Hedges
If you turn off your mind, relax and float downstream you might just find there’s a lot more than botany to discover in a garden, especially in Leeds.
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Crado Come Home
Me and the world around me during the second half of July 2024, in 100 words per day.
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All the President’s Biscuits
Me and the world around me during the first half of July 2024, in 100 words per day.
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Keith Hamer
Posted on Thu, 11 Dec 2025
Thanks IPFN. I had no idea!
But imagine sitting next to test card enthusiast Keith Hamer on a long train journey. The stories he must have to tell!
Read full commentPosted in A Hare's Breath 2 - The Bicycle
Hope
Posted on Wed, 10 Dec 2025
Shema Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Echad… Israel, I hope you're listening.
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Dodgy
Posted on Tue, 09 Dec 2025
Swinging and dodgy with lorry drivers sounds a bit dodgy to me Jenny. Tell me more! ...
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Bears
Posted on Fri, 05 Dec 2025
We do indeed have bears living wild in the mountain regions. And wolves.
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Hristo Botev
Posted on Fri, 05 Dec 2025
Dear Jenny and Airy, thank you very much for reading my poem and posting comments. Here’s a bit of the detail that lies behind my words.
As a poet and a revolutionary in the war for freedom from the Ottoman Yoke, Hristo Botev is an...
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Anticipation
Posted on Thu, 04 Dec 2025
Wonderful words to describe how poetry comes to us in here...
Reflecting ripples of intuition that surface
And soar...awakening the poet in me
I enjoyed this Jenny, very much.
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Sad cancellation
Posted on Thu, 04 Dec 2025
There's little more disheartening than a cancelled holiday, especially if it's at the last minute.
However, my first ever visit to Bulgaria was hastily arranged when another holiday I had spent months planning had to be pulled at short...
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Hasan / Vets / Teapots
Posted on Wed, 03 Dec 2025
Hello Jenny.
At the risk of taking some of the drama out of the tale, I can tell you that Hasan’s vehicle is a mobility scooter. I don’t know why he’s got it, as he’s reasonably fit, or how he got it, as he hasn’t got two stotinki to rub...
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Demonstrations
Posted on Wed, 03 Dec 2025
The protests were in almost every city, including ours. Apparently it was the biggest turn out of people on the streets since the final days of the Communist regime. The largest demonstration was in Sofia where the whole of the city centre was...
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Trousers
Posted on Wed, 03 Dec 2025
And this is why Neil Armstrong didn't buy a new pair of trousers the day before he walked on the Moon. It's my opinion that in suggesting it was 'one small step for man' he was being a bit cocky. He'd have shown the whole world his foolishness if...
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