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Hot Cross Bun Blues

If only they had a branch of Sainsbury’s in the Mississippi Delta.
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Gold cherry

Nellie the Devilment

How smiling eyes and a Derry accent can get you almost anything you want.
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Poking James MacGuigan’s Cow

This is an old bit of writing from the days when I was still nervous about farm animals. I’ve done a bit of the digital remastering because I was never really happy with it and I thought that while I was fiddling about I would change the subject from a pig to a cow, thus meeting the dictates of this week’s Inspiration Point. So you’d better read it because if you don’t I’ll set James MacGuigan on you.
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Trip of a Lifetime

A poem inspired by a terrible incident my partner and I witnessed on the four kilometre journey into our local town this morning.
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Scorn Not His Djezve

A tongue in cheek assessment of the misnomer that making good coffee is complicated.
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School

Posted on Fri, 21 Feb 2025

Hello Jenny.

Foxwood School had been only for boys when it opened in the late 1950s but the year group I was in was the last before they opened it up to girls. So there were always girls around but not in my year. When I reached the sixth...

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Thank you for the days

Posted on Fri, 21 Feb 2025

There was a day for almost everything during school days. I think you've covered most of them in your poem which I enjoyed reading.

I must admit that my favourite day was leaving day.  

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The tinkering of cattle

Posted on Tue, 18 Feb 2025

Of all the animials I have come face to face with, cows have had the most gorgeous eyes.

A lovely poem, beautifully tinkered.

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Kes

Posted on Sun, 09 Feb 2025

The Biederbecke Affair was typical 1980s Sunday evening light hearted drama and although entertaining at the time it might seem a bit dated now.

Kes, however, is an absolute classic of British cinema and well worth a watch. I believe all...

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Fitting in

Posted on Sun, 09 Feb 2025

I agree with you Rhiannon and what you have said is exactly what Sofi (aka Priyatelkata) and I have done.

However, many immigrants here (but thankfully not all) behave in the exact opposite way. They seem to want to make Bulgaria into a...

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Blackboard Jungle

Posted on Sun, 09 Feb 2025

That's a great account of some wonderful memories Jenny.

You're braver than me. The school I went to in Leeds in the 1970s was wild. It was very similar to the school in Ken Loach's film Kes. My younger sister has kept in touch...

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Made my day

Posted on Sat, 08 Feb 2025

Woo hoo Drew, you've made my day!

Thank you very much for the golden cherries and for the kindness of your words.

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Adventures

Posted on Sun, 02 Feb 2025

I'm very well thank you Jenny, and I'm happy to know that you're in much better shape than you have been. I hope that when the better weather arrives you manage to get out with your partner for some local adventures. I was talking to my daughter...

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Anchors aweigh!

Posted on Fri, 07 Feb 2025

The word 'starboard' was originally 'steerboard' and originated in the times before rudders were invented. Instead they would always have one extra big oar for steering purposes which was nearly always fixed in place on the deck (or boards) on...

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Haunted

Posted on Sun, 02 Feb 2025

yet still I'm
haunted by past voices that
consume, distant whispers
carried on the breeze.

 

These words, or similar, go through my mind regularly as I think back to all the people I have known and lost ...

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