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502 Kilometres
502 Kilometres Just up the road from my wife and me A fire’s burning constantly Folks just like us are in the street No food to eat Nowhere to sleep...
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Her Troubles
Her Troubles Tuesday’s fish supper grease still lingers On grubby stubby stiff little fingers Cracked by cold and each one bleeds From overuse of...
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Elisabeth and the Bonbon Girls
Elisabeth and the Bonbon Girls Alone, I walked along the dusty path that led away from the termite-ravaged back gate of the small French colonial-...
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Maglic Moments
A piece of writing I did a good while back for the travel company, Exodus Travels. Neither the trip nor I were very glossy but they were very happy to include it in their glossy promotional literature. The Green Visions Travel Agency in Sarajevo used it too. And no, there isn’t a typo in the title.
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Lady Danube
A photograph of a green wooden hut beside a river. But the river is none other than the River Danube (known locally as the Dunav / Дунав) taken on my phone a few days ago from near the town of Svishtov in Bulgaria, approximately 80 kms from where I live. I love watching rivers flow by but the might of the Danube (the second longest in Europe, after the Don) is extraordinary. Its beauty and the folklore and mythology that accompany it compelled me to write this poem.
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He's fallen in the water.
Posted on Sat, 11 Jan 2025
It's incredible how when something goes badly, or totally wrong, it can lead on to a series of good things in our lives. I'd say this happened to me and possibly / probably to most people, though not everybody... sometimes things are far too...
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Setting number 8
Posted on Thu, 09 Jan 2025
An inner privacy's a great place. I thrive in mine. People sometimes think I'm miserable or depressed but I'm not. I'm just being alone whilst in the company of others, knowing that I'm not boring anybody and that I'm not likely to be disagreed...
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Cheerful but violent
Posted on Tue, 07 Jan 2025
Hello Paul.
The 'Boro also had the Brazilian Junior and Fabrizio Ravanelli before football was overloaded with imported players. Ravanelli was said to be the first player in British football to run round with his shirt over his head in a...
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Compelling
Posted on Sat, 04 Jan 2025
Every picture tells a story and every story sparks a thousand emotions.
This makes compelling reading Harry, as always.
Read full commentPosted in Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Photographs
Karaoke
Posted on Tue, 07 Jan 2025
That's brilliant!
I'm looking forward to the update and the full song.
I read your words as I listened to the music. It was like a proper little karaoke session.
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Rory & Jimi
Posted on Tue, 07 Jan 2025
Jimmy Hendrix was once asked how it feels to be the best guitar player in the world. He replied - ask Rory Gallagher.
He was another one who died too early, in 1995 at the age of 47, as a consequence of wrongly prescribed drugs for the...
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It's nice to know I raised a
Posted on Sun, 05 Jan 2025
It's nice to know I raised a smile.
I have eight cats, all of which I rescued as pathetic starving kittens from the streets near where I live. There are indeed strays around here but most of them stay away because my own cats are so...
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Auto Rector
Posted on Fri, 03 Jan 2025
I'd offer to help but I've never found the switch to turn it on. Not within ABC anyway.
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Cabbages etc
Posted on Thu, 02 Jan 2025
Ah, you made me do a LOL. I'll try to restrict the conversation to teeth and cabbages next time I'm there.
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Teeth
Posted on Thu, 02 Jan 2025
But Di, doesn't everybody know that BDSM stands for Bulgarian Dental Surgeons Ministry? I could never imagine that it might mean anything else. I have questions for the dentist the next time I see him.
The dogs were all fairly small but...
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