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| Type | Title | Author | Replies | Last updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Story | Windfall. | celticman | 17 | 2 years 6 months ago |
| Story | The Plan part two | blighters rock | 2 | 2 years 6 months ago |
| Story | Fit For Work | Tom Brown | 13 | 2 years 6 months ago |
| Story | Private Psychiatric Hospital | Tom Brown | 13 | 2 years 6 months ago |
| Story | Miracle of Love | Ewan | 9 | 2 years 6 months ago |
| Story | Roots | JuliaB | 7 | 2 years 6 months ago |
| Story | The Spa | Starfish Girl | 11 | 2 years 7 months ago |
| Story | "Good Morning" | Penny4athought | 18 | 2 years 7 months ago |
| Story | Missed You. | celticman | 8 | 2 years 7 months ago |
| Story | The Moon Maiden | marandina | 21 | 2 years 7 months ago |
| Story | More Elaines | Turlough | 22 | 2 years 7 months ago |
| Story | Looking | Ewan | 5 | 2 years 7 months ago |
| Story | Cancelled in the afterlife | blighters rock | 10 | 2 years 7 months ago |
| Story | Falling | marandina | 16 | 2 years 7 months ago |
| Story | Inspired By Mother Nature | skinner_jennifer | 14 | 2 years 7 months ago |
| Story | The Road to Erehwon | Ewan | 11 | 2 years 7 months ago |
| Story | Rousing Spring | skinner_jennifer | 19 | 2 years 7 months ago |
| Story | This Sort of Thing - February 2024 - Last Orders | Turlough | 8 | 2 years 7 months ago |
| Story | Spring Release | D G Moody | 13 | 2 years 7 months ago |
| Story | This Sort of Thing - February 2024 - Early Doors | Turlough | 10 | 2 years 7 months ago |
| Story | The Fish Hawker | skinner_jennifer | 20 | 2 years 7 months ago |
| Story | Ophidian at Four O’Clock | Turlough | 16 | 2 years 7 months ago |
| Story | Come Home To Dublin | mcscraic | 7 | 2 years 7 months ago |
| Story | Tilly cut loose from the day | celticman | 21 | 2 years 8 months ago |
| Story | Patrick Kavanagh and Me | Turlough | 15 | 2 years 8 months ago |
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This Sort of Thing - January 2024 - Starter
Written at the rate of 100 words per day, this is the first part of my account of a journey from the settee to the corner of our kitchen where the kettle is.
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Cherries and Dahlia Petals
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Twelve, the final part.
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The Gaddafi Effect
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Eleven (with photographs, though they're the same photographs as in Part Ten, so you may have seen them before).
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Tea with the Coppersmith
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Ten (with photographs).
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The Man in the Iran Mosque
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Nine.
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Close shave
Posted on Wed, 17 Dec 2025
It was a war really and these things happen in all wars. Although there’s war everywhere, our generation in our part of the world is generally untouched by such events. We’ve been very lucky, so far.
A few years ago I was on a walking...
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Fairy cars or fairy cakes?
Posted on Wed, 17 Dec 2025
That’s mad, but I’m not surprised. I’ve never got my head round the existence of ‘biscuit’ as a colour for a car.
You’d think that naming cars would be the easiest job in the world. I’d love to have a crack at it. I remember in an episode...
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Belfast Frank
Posted on Wed, 17 Dec 2025
I suspect Frank was right but I'm not really qualified to comment because we left before the paramilitaries took to running the show and things got really bad. I know that as well as in the cities there were checkpoints set up by the UVF/UDA, the...
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Lucozade
Posted on Wed, 17 Dec 2025
I take many photographs of beautiful places so I suppose I’m a little guilty in this respect, but I’ve been doing this for most of my life and it’s almost always been with a proper camera. However, it pains me to say that the photographs that my...
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Wellies and hares
Posted on Mon, 15 Dec 2025
Good morning Jenny. It’s 1:55 a.m. at the moment in Bulgaria but I can’t resist replying to a comment from an ABC friend.
Bearing in mind we’re talking about Ireland in the 1960s, there’s a strong possibility that the lights at the faerie...
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These shoes!
Posted on Mon, 15 Dec 2025
The old man who sits by the well with a cigarette lodged neatly in one of the gaps in his front teeth and fingerless gloves that weren’t always fingerless but he’s never been much good at striking matches has lived in our village since ancient...
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The Fairies. by William Allingham
Posted on Mon, 15 Dec 2025
The Fairies, by William Allingham
He was a Scottish poet but in this poem he mentions Columbkill, Slieveleague and the Rosses which are all places...
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Thank you!
Posted on Mon, 15 Dec 2025
I bet those single-shoed kids’ mums were hopping mad when their kids got home. I was worried about somebody seeing me put the shoes in the bin in the street and having to explain where I'd got them from.
Thanks for your nice words about my...
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Only two left
Posted on Mon, 15 Dec 2025
Aye, there have been other bikes but none ever stays in the memory like the first one does.
Perhaps your Uncle Gerald didn't rate your da as a dancer.
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Hilarity
Posted on Mon, 15 Dec 2025
Thanks very much Di.
I'd say that in those days the world was a completely different place and everybody was strong. If a child went out on it's bike today with blood on the handlebars Social Services would surely be called. And in Ireland...
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