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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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Pagan Orange
Posted on Wed, 10 Jul 2024
Thanks Paul. Yes I saw it. It brought outrage to the world and his pagan god. A very ill-mannered thing to do but it was only a bit of orange coloured cornflour and I'm sure the dear old henge has known far worse. The stunt gained a lot of...
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Just Stop Many Things
Posted on Wed, 10 Jul 2024
I'd say that Just Stop Plastic and Bombs and Rockets Whilst Significantly Reducing the Number of Internal Combustion Engines would be a better name for a pressure group. We need oil for our chip pans and massage parlours.
It's...
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Blood on the Tracks
Posted on Tue, 09 Jul 2024
Bob Dylan has highs and a few lows for me but Blood on the Tracks is the ultimate high and on which Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts really stands out. It's one of those got-to-listen-twice songs.
Long time ago when...
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Embarrassing
Posted on Fri, 05 Jul 2024
Priyatelkata is half Algerian. She will haggle over the number of corn flakes in her breakfast bowl.
In market situations I feel half proud and half embarrassed. When I try to haggle she just laughs.
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Advice for first time Guinness carriers
Posted on Fri, 05 Jul 2024
In five easy steps:
- Arrange the pints of Guinness on the bar top in a triangle formation with two near to you and one a bit further away.
- Place the thumb and index finger of each hand around the two pints of Guinness nearest
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I can really do it, I can really move...
Posted on Tue, 09 Jul 2024
Yes! All lovers make
Make the same mistakes
As me and you
Bob Dylan, eat your heart out!
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Wanderer
Posted on Mon, 08 Jul 2024
I'm very sorry to hear about your dyslexia... I wasn't poking fun.
I'm pleased to hear you've wandered a bit. They're all nice countries that you've visited, even if they don't have Maltesers.
But don't stop now. The world's your...
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The other forty
Posted on Mon, 08 Jul 2024
Four times fifteen percent is only sixty percent. I hope the other forty wasn't the best bit.
Most countries in southern and eastern Europe don't have homeless people. It's because accommodation is cheaper than in the west and it's in our...
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Brecon Beacons
Posted on Sat, 06 Jul 2024
That's a beautiful part of the world you were in Rhiannon.
Twelve years ago, when I was living in Wiltshire, I went there with our local walking group. We climbed Fan y Big, Cribyn and Pen y Fan, though it wasn't all climbing. I vaguely...
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Greatly appreciated
Posted on Fri, 05 Jul 2024
Thanks very much Jane. Your words are greatly appreciated.
I'm just a bit disappointed in myself for only writing a couple of thousand words after doing more than forty years of research.
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