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The Bratislava Pálava - Part Two of Two

If you missed The Bratislava Pálava - Part One, here's a link https://www.abctales.com/story/turlough/bratislava-p%C3%A1lava-part-one-two But if you...
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The Bratislava Pálava - Part One of Two

Have you ever gone away on your holidays and bumped into a foreign head of state? I’d often dreamt of sitting next to Joe Biden on a pensioners’ day...
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The Jammy Tax Dodger

When I’m settling up for what I owe when leaving a restaurant, disembarking from a taxi, admiring my newly coiffured curls in the mirror at Stanislav...
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A Viennese Whirl

A Viennese Whirl What a disappointment! We spent three whole days in this beautiful historic city but at no point did anybody offer us a Viennese...
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Trans Europe Express

We only crossed a tiny bit of Europe but in the time it took the train on which we were travelling to get from the city of Gorna Oryahovitsa in...
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Behind flickering eyelids.

Posted on Tue, 07 May 2024

It's incredible the weird and wonderful places that dreams take us. Sometimes they take me to places I've been to in the past and sometimes they take me to places I've never been but which I've dreamed about in the past.

I wish there was...

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I too am a migrant

Posted on Sat, 04 May 2024

I too am a migrant

They soon let me in

See I have my visa

In the form of white skin

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Trees

Posted on Sun, 28 Apr 2024

The most uplifting bit of human optimism I have ever witnessed was when I was in Madagascar and we visited a forest where baobab trees were growing. They had specimens that had been growing there for more than six hundred years. One tree, they...

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Posted in Connecting With Trees

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The David Bowie gig you went

Posted on Thu, 02 May 2024

The David Bowie gig you went to must have been amazing. He must have been doing his 'The Man Who Sold the World' sort of stuff which is a wonderful album deserving far more credit than it ever got.  I don't know anyone else who ever saw him in...

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A poor tree in poetry

Posted on Sun, 28 Apr 2024

I love trees and I know the upset that losing one can bring. We have a couple of very very old walnut trees which I love but always wonder if they will survive the next storm. If they were human they'd be in a home for the elderly.

So I...

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Brave

Posted on Tue, 23 Apr 2024

We all have to be brave when she's working in the kitchen! 

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The soya milk is quite

Posted on Tue, 23 Apr 2024

The soya milk is quite expensive here too so she makes it very cheaply herself from soya beans but it's an awful lot of work. So then after all that faffing with every kitchen implement that we own she then sets about making the yoghurt which is...

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LB

Posted on Tue, 23 Apr 2024

We have labyrinths of crisps and biscuits too Di but our supermarkets don't sell much of the other processed foods that you have over there in the posh end of Europe. Here we don't have prepacked sandwiches, prepared meals, pies and pasties, ...

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Splendid news

Posted on Wed, 24 Apr 2024

I'm very pleased to hear it, partly (but only partly) because I've mislaid the pencil sharpener.

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Jam

Posted on Wed, 24 Apr 2024

When is it? I'll pencil it in my diary.

Local tradition and climate dictate that mine will be within 24 hours of me pegging it, so everyone's invited but I doubt if many will get here in time.

The rakia's in the kitchen cupboard......

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