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When One Is One
When One Is One As our wee woman reaches one I wonder where the time has gone Those first twelve months so quickly passed As a list of skills you...
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502 Kilometres
502 Kilometres Just up the road from my wife and me A fire’s burning constantly Folks just like us are in the street No food to eat Nowhere to sleep...
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Her Troubles
Her Troubles Tuesday’s fish supper grease still lingers On grubby stubby stiff little fingers Cracked by cold and each one bleeds From overuse of...
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Elisabeth and the Bonbon Girls
Elisabeth and the Bonbon Girls Alone, I walked along the dusty path that led away from the termite-ravaged back gate of the small French colonial-...
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Maglic Moments
A piece of writing I did a good while back for the travel company, Exodus Travels. Neither the trip nor I were very glossy but they were very happy to include it in their glossy promotional literature. The Green Visions Travel Agency in Sarajevo used it too. And no, there isn’t a typo in the title.
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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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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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