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A Hot Afternoon in Malki Chiflik
Nothing moves. There is no breeze. No birds fly by in the cloudless sky. No creature has the will to disturb the cruel tranquillity. Not even bees...
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Frosty the Snowman
I was going to go out to the garden and build a snowman but then I remembered that I needed to put some fat on the cat’s abscess. I haven’t been...
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Mystery
Posted on Mon, 24 Jun 2024
Oh I love it when I come across a mystery while I'm walking through deserted places. And isn't it always the work of the faerie folk? They're capable of anything, particularly sending our minds off in wild directions. When my Nan was alive. if...
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Maria of the Two Houses
Posted on Sat, 22 Jun 2024
It's really sad. There aren't many leaves on the trees and their aren't many birds around since the storm. It's very quiet in a garden normally filled with birdsong. I'm hoping they've gone somewhere else but I have some doubts about their...
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New shoots
Posted on Sat, 22 Jun 2024
I regret that I find it impossible to justify or forgive Thatcher's actions. Too many destroyed businesses, broken homes, nervous breakdowns and suicides lay in her wake as well her damage to Britain's industry. Then there was her atrocious...
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I can't fathom it
Posted on Sat, 22 Jun 2024
I can't fathom how she could live with herself at all. She brought so much misery.
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The same wavelength
Posted on Sat, 22 Jun 2024
Thatcher was an awful woman but at least she knew what she was doing.
What you have written matters a lot to me too. It's good to be on the same wavelength.
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Brave and brilliant
Posted on Tue, 18 Jun 2024
There's a lot of raw emotion in these words. Good on you for being able to express yourself so well in this brave and brilliant poem.
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Grand
Posted on Mon, 17 Jun 2024
William Butler Yeats is alive and well and living in Northampton!
Grand words Paul.
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Homeless
Posted on Mon, 10 Jun 2024
In Bulgaria (and in all countries that follow Eastern Orthodox Christianity) Easter fell on the first weekend in May this year so we were virtually guaranteed hot sunny days. Local boys Saints Cyril and Methodius like it that way.
Please...
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Unputdownable
Posted on Sun, 09 Jun 2024
But, scientifically speaking, summer doesn't even start for another twelve days. You'll have no books left unread for the real autumn. Maybe you'll find some unputdownable cleaning products.
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Rusty nails
Posted on Sun, 09 Jun 2024
Aww Jenny, I'm really sorry to hear that you're feeling rough and I hope you're quickly feeling better.
A rusty nail, by the way, is the name of a cocktail made from whiskey and Drambuie, so maybe you need to swallow a few more.
It...
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