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StoryThis Morning luigi_pagano142 months 1 week ago
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This Sort of Thing - December 2023 - Side B

Stand aside Tristram Shandy, this is The Life and Opinions of Turlough Ó Maoláin, Gentleman. Compiled during the late part of December 2023, at a rate of one hundred words per day.
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This Sort of Thing - December 2023 - Side A

Stand aside Tristram Shandy, this is The Life and Opinions of Turlough Ó Maoláin, Gentleman. Compiled during the early part of December 2023, at a rate of one hundred words per day.
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Goody Two Shoes

It’s hard to find something to give up if you’re doing nothing bad in the first place.
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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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My parents would drag me and

Posted on Sun, 11 Feb 2024

My parents would drag me and my sister to Crazy Prices in Coleraine every Fiday evening in the late 1960s. I didn't like going but watching the sparks fly from the fingers of the check-out woman as she tapped in the prices on the buttons on the...

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Her mind a circus in a

Posted on Wed, 07 Feb 2024

Her mind a circus in a fishbowl

That's a brilliant line.

Every time, the whole situation is one of mental torture for the poor elderly person and for the family but struggling on without the care home is even harder....

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Posted in The Home

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Poor, poor tadpoles.

Posted on Thu, 08 Feb 2024

We avoid using the car as much as possible and recycle practically everything. Even our cats are secondhand. There's not much more that we can do to save the planet except to sit at home and be depressed about it.

I didn't know about the...

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Posted in This Sort of Thing - January 2024 - Main Course

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Thanks very much airyfairy.

Posted on Thu, 08 Feb 2024

Thanks very much airyfairy.

My 100 words a day thing keeps my brain ticking over. It's a bit like a sodoku in words rather than numbers. So even if nobody reads it, it's worth having a crack at. 

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Posted in This Sort of Thing - January 2024 - Main Course

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When I read your comment, Di,

Posted on Thu, 08 Feb 2024

When I read your comment, Di, I thought your cat had been complaining about chalkdust. We have dust but it's nothing to do with chalk.

Our weather is unbelievably warm at the moment which is not typical. Our winters are much milder than...

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Posted in This Sort of Thing - January 2024 - Main Course

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It certainly is Rhiannon.

Posted on Thu, 08 Feb 2024

It certainly is Rhiannon. Already we have things sprouting up all over the place. At the beginning of March nature seems to explode in Bulgaria.

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Andy Williams sang...

Posted on Thu, 08 Feb 2024

Andy Williams sang, 'It's the most wonderful time of the year!' I don't think he meant February but if they'd asked me to sing it instead of him, that's certainly what would have been going through my mind.

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Life started to become

Posted on Thu, 08 Feb 2024

Life started to become difficult, Jenny, with the introduction of colour tellies and decimal coinage. Where I lived our whole world was in black and white and nobody had any money so it all took a lot longer to understand.

Thanks for...

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Posted in This Sort of Thing - January 2024 - Main Course

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Yes, we decided to just be

Posted on Tue, 06 Feb 2024

Yes, we decided to just be friends. 

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Posted in This Sort of Thing - January 2024 - Starter

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A mesmerising display indeed.

Posted on Mon, 05 Feb 2024

A mesmerising display indeed.

Such displays aren't seen so much these days. I remember watching them as a child as they almost obliterated Belfast City Hall and the surrounding buildings. A fantastic feature of nature to see but...

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Posted in A Murmuration of Starlings

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