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Catatouille

Discovering that meat isn’t necessarily murder.
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Lactobacillus Bulgaricus or Bust!

Other yoghurts are available, though scientists have proved that our Bulgarian yoghurt is by far the best in the world.
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Story of the week

This Sort of Thing - March 2024 - La finale

Words of comfort, words of peace. Words to fend off angry geese.
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This Sort of Thing - March 2024 - L'ouverture

Words in papers, words in books. Words once sung by Elkie Brooks.
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More Elaines

Elaine and I barely spoke to each other but memories of this gruff, no-nonsense woman have stayed with me for fifty years.
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Brutal

Posted on Thu, 30 Oct 2025

The Celtic cross was an incredible piece of sculpting but I struggled to enjoy it because it was a memorial to a landowner (the Earl of Leitrim) who was an altogether unpleasant man though not as bad as his father who was assassinated by locals...

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Roots

Posted on Tue, 21 Oct 2025

I've moved around a lot in my life Jenny, so I've never been sure where home was. Family members had always told me that Ireland was home and when I go there it feels like that's true, so that's a big part of the reason I get the lumps. But...

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Posted in Singin' in the Buncrana Rain

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Nice one!

Posted on Tue, 21 Oct 2025

Nice one Paul... an eerie tale expertly written.

But if you don't mind I'll just point out a bit of a factual error. Brian Eno left Roxy Music nine years before they released Avalon. At that stage of the band's history only Bryan Ferry, ...

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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.

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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...

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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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Posted in At Home in the Pause

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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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