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Lingo Bingo
An explanation of the labour of love of my life that may have started out a long time ago as a labour of clinging on to my life.
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Children of the Absolution
A recollection of thoughts I had during my childhood in the 1960s. I intended writing them down long before now but I was always terrified to death at the thought of the potential consequences.
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Piblokto
Piblokto: a culture-specific syndrome occurring among traditional Inuit people, particularly women, characterized by an outburst of cries or screams, the removal of clothing, and seeming possession by a bird or animal spirit. Scientists believe that the causes include extreme cold and a lack of sunlight.
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A Girl of Eastern Beauty
I watched the girl in silence, not a single word she spoke.
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This Sort of Thing - November 2023 – Second Half
Fyodor Dostoevsky once said. ‘The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.’ With this in mind I have taken to revealing on the worldwide web the contents of my journal once (maybe twice) a month, allowing fellow worldwide webbers to judge the level of foolery and share their opinion.
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Fighting fit
Posted on Fri, 27 Jun 2025
Yes Di, I'm absolutely tip top now. Many thanks for asking.
And I hope you're fit and well yourself.
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Palestine
Posted on Sun, 22 Jun 2025
History twists and turns but I doubt there's ever been a reversal of circumstances quite like what we're seeing now. And we are seeing it now. We've no choice. It's everywhere we look.
I've tried to look away but I can't. I've read books...
Read full commentPosted in Fifty-One Empty Places at the Dinner Table
Glasto
Posted on Tue, 24 Jun 2025
There's little that can beat the atmosphere of a good music festival. I've been to a few but never Glastonbury. I used to go to the WOMAD festival every year near Malmsbury near where you live. It was all what they call 'World Music' which I love...
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The Goddess of Death
Posted on Tue, 24 Jun 2025
I'm delighted to see how quickly you've acclimatised to life in Somerset Paul. I vaguely remember there being a pub in Taunton called the Goddess of Death. Their hemlock flavoured crisps are to die for.
Excellent writing! I eagerly await...
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Home á loam
Posted on Tue, 17 Jun 2025
Sitting in my shed and writing, I find, are the two great healers in life. I wish there was a light in my shed so that I could go there to write, thereby killing two earwigs with one stone.
I once read somewhere on the internet that...
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Sleep
Posted on Sun, 22 Jun 2025
Thanks very much for your words Kilb50.
The good thing about not being able to sleep is that I don't have the nightmares.
Read full commentPosted in Fifty-One Empty Places at the Dinner Table
Hoover hysteria!
Posted on Wed, 11 Jun 2025
Ah, thank you for that. I'm glad it made you smile.
I've always thought that a person could never have too many hoovers. And I've always felt terribly sorry for No-vac Djokovic.
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June
Posted on Wed, 11 Jun 2025
I have indeed Coral and, at this point, that journal's exactly one-third written.
All will be revealed. Well maybe not all, but certainly a lot.
Tx
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Disenchantment
Posted on Thu, 05 Jun 2025
I see where you're coming from Jenny. I feel exactly the same. It depresses me to think about the state of the world today. Sometimes I tell myself to close my eyes to it but that's what people did in Europe in the 1930s with horrific...
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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.
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