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Mother Bulgaria
As Lenin looks down from his sombre pedestal Concrete erupts from a bleak landscape like The broken teeth of windswept peasants Drinking homemade...
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Betty Lewis Eyes
A teapot on a tray she brings. Digestive in each saucer. Horrific tales of war to tell But only if she’s forced to. She’s angelic, prim and ninety...
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Crucial Moves of Fantasy
Sit back and watch the sea above Where images of waves and whales and fish and ships Collide and slide and get mixed up Until it is a sea no more But...
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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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The webuybooks thing
Posted on Thu, 06 Jun 2024
Ah, the webuybooks thing! I was surprised to get as much as 50p for some of fhe stuff I was re-homing. Kids books mostly that they left behind when they flew the nest. But some lovely old hardback jobs that my Ma left behind weren't even...
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The Gandhi family
Posted on Wed, 05 Jun 2024
Joan would have been dismayed if Mahatma Gandhi had made the pancakes. Surely that was the work for Mrs Gandhi.But maybe there wasn't a Mrs Gandhi to cook for him, which would explain why he was so thin.
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The mother-in-law
Posted on Wed, 05 Jun 2024
We have an English friend here who does Sudoku. She admits that sometimes it's a bit of a waste of time but says at least it gives her something to think about while she's talking to her mother-in-law on Skype.
Les Dawson lives on!
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Curry tales
Posted on Wed, 05 Jun 2024
Ah, thanks Jenny.
Strange that both you and Insert have said that Joan reminds you of your ex-mothers in law. Maybe they were all the same person.
My dad used to love curry but no other adults in the family did and it was assumed...
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Books like that
Posted on Tue, 21 May 2024
With books like that around, the world has no place for all the artificial intelligence nonsense that's going on.
But will we get to read what appears on its blank pages?
A great idea and a great read.
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Special time of day
Posted on Mon, 27 May 2024
Great words to suit this special time of day. Calming moments.
I really liked your
A smile to melt the cold stare
of all the hardest days
as that's exactly how the dusk has made me feel down the...
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Brave stories
Posted on Thu, 30 May 2024
But you've probably other experiences to tell Marley about Di. We all live our lives differently.
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Poor Bob the Grandad
Posted on Thu, 30 May 2024
Apparently Irish people claim that Bob Marley has Irish blood through his father's line but Irish people always claim stuff like that about people, especially if they are a bit poetic or good story tellers. I've read somewhere that Bob's father...
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Nine Monkeys
Posted on Tue, 28 May 2024
Nine monkey puzzle trees must be quite a sight to see, as must be the views from the ridge that your words describe so well.
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Scary!
Posted on Fri, 24 May 2024
I think it was that great philosopher, Sting, who once wrote / sang, There's no such thing as a winnable war.
This is a great read Paul. Your very descriptive words create a situation as worrying and scary as the sitution in real...
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