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Django, Gitáno Gitaristo (Django, Gypsy Guitarist)
For Django Reinhardt, my guitar hero.
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Admissions Impossible
A few lines scribbled to occupy the time between going to bed last night and getting up this morning.
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Our Old Girl… Remembering Coral
I knew Coral (seashore) for only the final two of her eighty-six years. Around our love and sadness for her late daughter Julia (Overthetop1), who herself had been a dear friend forty years before, we formed an incredible bond in that short time. She once described herself as an old crock. To me she was an old crock of gold.
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Fire and Rain
If Stevie Wonder had lived in Equatorial Guinea, he’d probably still have thought there was nothing hotter than July in Bulgaria. Here’s one hundred words per day to describe the last fifteen days of a very sweaty month.
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Violetta Are You Better?
If Stevie Wonder had lived in Bulgaria, he’d have realised that there’s nothing hotter than July. Here’s one hundred words per day to describe the first sixteen days of a very sticky month.
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Shockingly lovely.
Posted on Fri, 16 Feb 2024
A great reminder that what we have contains so much more beauty and tranquilty than the homes of much of the rest of the world. I wish that wasn't true but it is. Your words soften the reader's frame of mind before the contrast and the harsh...
Read full commentPosted in Two kinds of crying : 15th February 2024
Ukraine
Posted on Mon, 12 Feb 2024
Before I write anything else I want to stress that I absolutely do not condone Putin's actions in Ukraine.
However, here in Bulgaria we have refugees from Ukraine, but they are different to the Ukraine refugees that have fled their...
Read full commentPosted in After Russian Rain (A Postscript from Moscow)
Worms.
Posted on Thu, 28 Dec 2023
If' you'd been in a Mexican bar you'd have been grand.
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Hello Jean.
Posted on Thu, 30 Nov 2023
Hello Jean.
I'm so sorry to hear that you didn't get the news that you were hoping for. I'm hoping your asymptomatic status continues and the chemotherapy is doing its job.
Thank you for keeping us up to date with what you're going...
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I really like..
Posted on Thu, 26 Oct 2023
I really like..
And oh, what a world full of places for foxes who know!
They are everywhere but they keep themselves to themselves. They know things that we don't know and they go places we don't go. Gorgeous creatures and...
Read full commentPosted in The Birds were Singing
I love this Rhiannon, though
Posted on Mon, 21 Aug 2023
I love this Rhiannon, though it saddens me.
You've reminded me of the dear elderly people I used to visit when I was working, particularly those living in care homes. They had no desire to receive presents. What brought them happiness was...
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Ha ha! If ever he tells you
Posted on Wed, 09 Aug 2023
Ha ha! If ever he tells you to get knotted he probably means he's waiting for you to turn into that tree.
People such as Lesley Ash, Courtney Pine, Nigel Hawthorne and King Edward the Elder have already been through this process.
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Years ago I entered a pun
Posted on Thu, 03 Aug 2023
Years ago I entered a pun writing competition in our local newspaper. I wrote one and then immediately thought of another. It was so easy I couldn't stop. Eventually I had ten of them so I sent them all off to the newspaper office in town ...
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A-ha were (maybe still are) a
Posted on Sat, 15 Jul 2023
A-ha were (maybe still are) a brilliant band. I've a couple of their CDs myself. Not so fond of Geldof though.
Your words remind me of a time when I was looking through second hand CDs at a market stall near where I lived. As I browsed I...
Read full commentPosted in The Morten Harket Selfie Opportunity
Great stuff Paul! This is a
Posted on Mon, 18 Apr 2022
Great stuff Paul! This is a really entertaining read though I had to keep reminding myself that it is a work of fiction.
It leaves me wondering if in the future you might be writing a piece on Boris Johnson's appearance on the television...
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