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Reasons to Be Bulgarian… Naz-dra-vee!
Bulgaria… a paradise that’s maybe a bit rough round the edges. This beautiful country may not be perfect but it’s the perfect home for me and Priyatelkata. We could never live anywhere else. I took my inspiration from Hristo Botev, my lovely neighbours and Ian Dury.
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The Targovishte Quandary - Part 3 of 3
My dark and disturbing encounter in Eastern Europe – it’s the final countdown!
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The Targovishte Quandary - Part 2 of 3
My dark and disturbing encounter in Eastern Europe continues.
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The Targovishte Quandary - Part 1 of 3
My dark and disturbing encounter in Eastern Europe.
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The Treadmills of My Mind
It’s that ole devil called insomnia again, where I’m entertained by the dark columns of the world’s problem page.
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Well done you!
Posted on Tue, 27 May 2025
I've caught up and read them all now Jenny and congratulate you on your fine body of work. Well done you! I hope there'll be follow ups following soon.
Read full commentPosted in A Victorian Lady's Memoirs Part Eight
Mind
Posted on Sat, 31 May 2025
It's good to remove mundane from the mind. In turn that removes much of the mundane from what lurks outside the mind.
Nice words, and an accurate description of what we're capable of.
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Colours
Posted on Sun, 01 Jun 2025
There's no better balm for the brain than a wild explosion of nature's colours.
Nice one Jenny!
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Poor Jess
Posted on Mon, 02 Jun 2025
A captivating build up. But is this the first part of a bawdy tale of infidelity?
Read full commentPosted in Write to Romance
Worry
Posted on Mon, 02 Jun 2025
If I was of child-bearing age I would be very reluctant to bring offspring into the world that's in the mess that it's in today. I worry myself sick about the future that my grown up children have to look forward to and even more about their...
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The A650
Posted on Fri, 30 May 2025
My money's on this being about Australia. From my own experience I might even venture to say that it's about the land to the east of Spencer Gulf in South Australia. But go on, tell me it's about the A650 between Leeds and Bradford.
Your...
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Firestarter
Posted on Fri, 30 May 2025
I like to think that I'm a flamebearer. But I like the barefoot in the fields and the sinking in the dark bits too. You've brought these comparisions together wonderfully well and made me have a good think.
I'm going out now to buy a box...
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Toes... then and now
Posted on Thu, 29 May 2025
Thank you very much Jessiibear. They're the same toes now but sixty years older. They seem much different, but toes have memories.
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Well done Samson!
Posted on Fri, 30 May 2025
A megalithic dolmen. I've been visiting these places in Ireland all my life and they never fail to mystify me as I try to imagine the human activity that led to their being there. They're always in peaceful and beautiful settings where a good old...
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Peat Bog Feet
Posted on Thu, 29 May 2025
Thanks Di, it's reassuring to know that my feet resemble those of thousands of years old peat bog men. Perhaps I should change my socks more often.
I'd imagine that the water in the rivers and streams where you live is peaty and brown too...
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