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Hotel Mediterraneo
Sultry and still the sweet night air. Latin music. Crickets chirping. Like a favela in Rio or anywhere But for the sound of Geordies burping. For el...
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Lazing On a Thursday Afternoon
Caught in a lull between two storms, I’m stuck in an uneasy stay-in-the-house kind of frame of mind, reluctant to open the back door even though the...
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Take It or Leave It (with music video)
I first posted this poem on the ABCTales website in November, during the week when our Inspiration Point was ambivalence. Please forgive me if you...
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Copse and Robbers
No Bulgar children, women or men Can recall the day exactly when They first strode into forested lands With an axe on a shoulder or a saw in a hand...
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The Friday Pazar in Gorna Oryahovitsa
Coffee imbibed, strong and black. Old men sit and talk and cough and hack Beneath a fig tree even older. Tobacco smoked, even stronger To blunt the...
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Roots
Posted on Mon, 22 Jul 2024
It's emotional blackmail. The vets know that people with raw emotions will find the money.
We just bury ours in the garden. There's even a space for me. It's just beside the redcurrant bushes. I would have preferred to be beneath the...
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Sheds
Posted on Sun, 21 Jul 2024
I had thought about writing a story just like yours but it would have meant sorting our shed out a bit first which would be quite a task so I'll just read yours.
Intriguing stuff it is too!
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Eric's PTSD
Posted on Fri, 19 Jul 2024
I think grumpy old Eric had PTSD long before the outbreak of World War Two and the Icelanders only shot him (no one else, as he could recall) so that he'd go home. During the years that I was living near to Bath the majority of the buses there...
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Cheryl
Posted on Fri, 19 Jul 2024
Is it Cheryl from Bucks Fizz?
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Ticket trouble
Posted on Fri, 19 Jul 2024
Back in the day the perfomers would employ their own people to distribute and sell their tickets but now they keep their overheads down by washing their hands of the responsibility and handing it over to an agency. Inflated prices and unrealistic...
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Wealthy mates
Posted on Fri, 19 Jul 2024
Aww, have a heart! I'm sure the people at the ticket agency were only trying to fit in with their mates at all the other big organisations that have shown total disrespect for their customers in order to accumulate vulgar amounts of wealth.
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The Mad Monk
Posted on Thu, 18 Jul 2024
It would be terrible of me to take any credit for the words of the poem about the Mad Monk.
I offer my sincere apologies to Alfred and to any reader who feels they might have been misled.
Clicking on the link will reveal the...
Read full commentPosted in Pearly Gates : A Tour of Russia’s Hell by Alfred N.Muggins Part 3
Euro 28
Posted on Thu, 18 Jul 2024
I'm quietly confident that the final of the Euro 28 tournament will be Malta vs Bulgaria.
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Take Splat!
Posted on Thu, 18 Jul 2024
I'm already on it CM. Living in Bulgaria insects, arachnids, isopods and arthropods have become my speciality. I may have even caught crabs from time to time.
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Glaswegians Chapter 3 Verse 8
Posted on Thu, 18 Jul 2024
Mmmmh, now that's a good point IPFN. I lived in Glasgow for a large chunk of 1978 and I don't remember seeing a wasp. There were, however, a great number of people turning wine into water.
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