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This Sort of Thing - April 2024 - The Sporophyte Stage

By Turlough on Wed, 15 May 2024

Eat your words but don't go hungry. Words can make you grow rotundly.

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This Sort of Thing - April 2024 - The Gametophyte Stage

By Turlough on Mon, 13 May 2024

Words to tell you what to do. Words as strong as Irn Bru.

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Turn and Face the Strange

By Turlough on Thu, 02 May 2024

Contemplating life in a world where virtually everything’s becoming virtual.

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Catatouille

By Turlough on Thu, 25 Apr 2024

Discovering that meat isn’t necessarily murder.

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Dennis Bergkamp

Posted on Sat, 21 Feb 2026

Thanks IPFN. I’ll send the link on to my son. He tried to sell his collection about twelve years ago and nobody was interested and since then nobody’s even taken him up on his offer to give them away. Not even the National Football Museum in...

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Buddha

Posted on Sat, 21 Feb 2026

I get the impression that the factory that made the badge also made them for other shipbuilders around the country. They were based (and still are based, apparently) in Birmingham whereas the shipyard was in the distant North East.

Ship...

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Wembley Teeth

Posted on Sat, 21 Feb 2026

I love meeting people who have witnessed historic events that nobody else around seems to have been at. That match at Wembley in 1953 must have been brilliant to see, so good on your Dad.

I used to work with a man who was at the 1966 World...

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Powerful

Posted on Fri, 20 Feb 2026

I read some wonderfully powerful words in this, especially...

It’s a shit-stained, twenty-four hour imbroglio

The way you read it with the musical backing track made it all the more dramatic.

Good on you!

Posted in Welcome to the New World (with musical accompaniment!)

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Gene

Posted on Fri, 20 Feb 2026

Poor old Jezebel. But at least Gene loves Jezebel.

We all talk to spirits in the desert. Their voices fly in the wind. And it’s better than talking to Manchester United supporters.

I was going to wish you luck for this afternoon but...

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Running

Posted on Fri, 20 Feb 2026

It was my knees that made me give up running, together with a bit of laziness, but before the niggleing pains got me I went through all the mid-life personal bests and internal competitiveness stuff that you've described. And although it...

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Mint tea

Posted on Wed, 18 Feb 2026

Hello Jenny.

Thank you for reading this. You've pretty much grasped what I had in mind but the man's not dead. He's in a desolate space somewhere with his gravestone waiting for him in the background, though it doesn't really matter how...

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Wonderful stumble

Posted on Tue, 10 Feb 2026

That’s a wonderful thing to stumble upon on a walk Jenny. I can see how and why it inspired your poem. It’s amazing what interesting things we have around us that so often go unnoticed.

I haven’t had such a discovery but I love it when I...

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You never know

Posted on Wed, 18 Feb 2026

I used to be such a determined singleton that people would call me Valerie. I met another determined singleton purely by accident and that determined singleton status was the main thing that we had in common and enough to bring an end to the...

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Humanity

Posted on Fri, 06 Feb 2026

Thank you very much David.

I wish it could be different but you are right in saying that humanity is going downhill. I'm finding it deeply disturbing that so many people can be so dismissive of the discrimination and greed that are...