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No Country for Cold Men

By Turlough on Sat, 17 Aug 2024

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

By Turlough on Thu, 15 Aug 2024

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

By Turlough on Fri, 02 Aug 2024

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

By Turlough on Thu, 01 Aug 2024

Me and the world around me during the first half of July 2024, in 100 words per day.

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Say cheese!

Posted on Fri, 27 Mar 2026

I quite enjoy a double Gloucester with ice and soda.

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Meaty

Posted on Fri, 27 Mar 2026

The Red Lion certainly rings a bell. If my memory serves me right you'd come out of the pub and turn left, and then the Indian restaurant was about 100 metres up the road on the left hand side.

Our main reason for hesitating when being...

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Whoopsie!

Posted on Fri, 27 Mar 2026

Eww, Betty! The cat’s done a whoopsie in the library!

Great writing as usual Paul, but you’ve got Nadeen and Nadeem

And perhaps she was poring over her latest reading material.

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Plovdiv vs Cricklade

Posted on Fri, 27 Mar 2026

Harper confided in me that she was the sister of Frankie Valli, she was cursed by PTA, and in 1968 Jeannie C. Riley had a big hit with a song about her.

Harper contributed only one piece to my emigration plan jigsaw puzzle. There were many...

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Sigh!

Posted on Mon, 23 Mar 2026

A Plovdiv-Tarnovo Compostition

There was young actor called Ryan

Who was very addicted to sighin'

He'd moan and he'd groan

As he sat all alone

In a caff that had no shepherd’s pie in...

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Brian Gosling

Posted on Mon, 23 Mar 2026

Hello Kat.

I had to look up Ryan Gosling on Google, but this is what happens to those of us who live outside the hustle and bustle of Plovdiv society.

Any road, I’ll kick off…

There was young actor called Ryan

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What's going on?

Posted on Mon, 23 Mar 2026

What I have written today is part four of a ten-part series in which each part is written by a different member of ABC Tales.

If you click on this link you’ll see a full explanation of what’s going on.

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Monster

Posted on Mon, 23 Mar 2026

Hello Luigi.

I’m excited to find out what happens next in the sleepy little town. It’s a place of great mystery and intrigue. The story’s advertised as a ten-parter but that’s what they said about Coronation Street in 1960. Have we ABC...