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I Fought the Law
Apart from having a wee behind a bin down a back alley in Middlesbrough when I was eight years old and a tiny bit of embezzlement around six years...
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A Hot Little Model from France
The kitchen took on the appearance of an overfilled Greetings from Murmansk snow globe as the door flew open and in gushed a torrent of winter’s...
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For Yer Women, the Women
All the year they scrub the homes From Skibbereen to Portglenone. They work their fingers to the bone, Afraid to pause to moan or groan. They milk...
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Priyatelka, Turlough and the House of Cats
She was sleeping in a gas station, south from here on route E85. I asked the pump attendant, ‘You think that little feline’s still alive?’ He said ‘...
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Keeping Teeth and Kidneys for Beginners
According to my team of researchers, Bulgaria has the cheapest beer in the world. At least one bottle of rakia, that well known cure-all,...
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Swans
Posted on Sun, 18 Aug 2024
A really nice poetic description of life around a lake. I like this and I like your photograph too.
There's something really special about swans. People say they can break your arm but I've never seen them show any more aggression than a...
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App attack!
Posted on Fri, 16 Aug 2024
A seasoned (or marinated) diarist, who was probably me, once wrote...
With a book in my hand and demonic android device in my bin, that’ll be the day that I die. And as I’m lowered into a hole amongst nettles where my bones will enrich...
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Too BIG
Posted on Thu, 15 Aug 2024
You've really captured the attitude of all those small people with BIG cars who are collectively a BIG irritation, a BIG nuisance on the roads and a BIG factor when considering damage to the environment.
The BIG question is why do they...
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Bobby's Golden Cherries
Posted on Thu, 15 Aug 2024
Ah. that's great news. I'm delighted. Thanks very much Ewan.
It's taken a while but the pound note that I gave to Bobby has turned out to be a good investment.
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Bobby's brother
Posted on Thu, 15 Aug 2024
Many many thanks for that Jenny.
But we mustn't forget that Bobby's brother John was quite entertaining too.
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That's entertainment!
Posted on Thu, 15 Aug 2024
If I worked for Leeds City Council I'd have set Bobby on as a performer of alternative street theatre. I met him several times and he was always very entertaining, though he didn't know it.
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The Elves
Posted on Mon, 12 Aug 2024
I can never resist the tales of the raggle taggle gypsies or the faerie folk. Helplessly I'm drawn in by your words.
Great writing Jenny, as ever.
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Put on your red shoes and dance the blues
Posted on Wed, 14 Aug 2024
Oh Paul, I was just about to book a flight to England to visit my kiddies and their kiddies but your skilled description of a dsytopian state has alerted dormant brain cells and saved me the £150 that Easyjet were asking for.
Apparently...
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Banitsa
Posted on Fri, 02 Aug 2024
I say this with all due respect to Alfred's views and personal opinions...
We can get croissants here in Bulgaria. We can also get baked beans, Yorkshire tea and cans of John Smith's bitter. But we don't want them. We are here to merge...
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It wasn't all grim
Posted on Sat, 27 Jul 2024
It wasn't all grim Di. I'm glad I did it but I'm also glad that I stopped when I did. Though in hindsight it was much harder readjusting to a life back on land than it had been to adjusting to a life on the ocean wave in the first place. I've got...
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