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The Spice of Life
The musings of an elderly observer of what can be seen in other people’s shopping trolleys.
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Bill or Bob?
If William Shakespeare and Bob Marley had a fight, who do you think would win? There’s only one way to find out…
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This Sort of Thing - The Childhood Stage
From a Smoggie to a Culchie, a ten year journey.
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This Sort of Thing - April 2024 - The Sporophyte Stage
Eat your words but don't go hungry. Words can make you grow rotundly.
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This Sort of Thing - April 2024 - The Gametophyte Stage
Words to tell you what to do. Words as strong as Irn Bru.
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Shells
Posted on Sun, 19 Oct 2025
It's hard to say what Priyatelkata does for a living. She sells seashells on the seashore.
Read full commentPosted in Shillelagh Shopping
Funeral Fans
Posted on Sat, 18 Oct 2025
For me, your second paragraph sums up the seasonal changes and other people's peculiar approach to them. And I think and hope that Herbican's a fictitious character as you've demonstrated great skill in describing what a miserable character he is...
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Teapot Trafficking
Posted on Fri, 17 Oct 2025
What you've said is true Di. People have been leaving rural Ireland for a couple of centuries. The country's population still hasn't recovered to the level it was before the Great Hunger in the 1840s when a million people died and another million...
Read full commentPosted in To the Lighthouse Café
Teachers
Posted on Thu, 16 Oct 2025
I was painfully shy back then and afraid to say boo to a goose. My parents moved us around quite a bit so I always seemed to have the wrong accent. Feeling intimidated most of the time, or at the very best just bored, I never stuck up for myself...
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Pause for thought.
Posted on Thu, 16 Oct 2025
Your words fit perfectly with how I've felt for years.
Everybody measures success in different ways. My experience of school teachers was that they felt they'd been successful if they'd packed some kids off to university, whether it was...
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People in longboats
Posted on Sun, 12 Oct 2025
Aye, apparently many of the Vikings who arrived in Britain and Ireland did so to trade and even integrate and marry into local communities. I think a lot of the bad press they got was stirred up by an eighth century equivalent of Nigel Farage and...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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