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When Your Snow is Deeper Than Your Dog
Summary but certainly not summery. Using precisely one hundred words per day, here’s my account of the things that went on in my Bulgarian life during the first fourteen days of February.
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On Achill Island
What good’s a house without a penny whistle?
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Eva of the Seven Wonders
Originally intended for last week’s Inspiration Point (To keep or not to keep, or something), this piece missed the cut off point because heavy snow and power cuts kept me from completing it.
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Arabesque
When she hears it, she will know.
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They Can Only Do Harm
In the Free World the cost of living is going up at an alarming rate.
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Martha Wainwright
Posted on Wed, 05 Nov 2025
I went to a Martha Wainwright gig at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London about twenty years ago. I was a bit unsure about her but my friend who was a fan bought me my ticket so I felt I had to go along. I didn't particularly enjoy any of the concert...
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Desperation
Posted on Wed, 15 Oct 2025
Many thanks to you Di for your comment.
Ah those flags. They shouldn't be up there at all. They're not just racist but supporting a terrorist organisation that was very active during the Troubles. And to have them up there in a place so...
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Manchester... lah lah lah
Posted on Tue, 19 Aug 2025
I try to spend my mornings, at least, with my mind free of the world's horrors and atrocities. ABCtales is usually a grand place to make this escape as I drink my coffee. This Bulgarian style coffee that Priyatelkata describes as 'the coffee of...
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Groovy!
Posted on Sun, 17 Aug 2025
Did you ever watch The Fast Show with John Thomson's 'Jazz Club' parody sketches? They were hilarious in that they were such a close likeness of the reality.
There are only small snippets of jazz that I like, and Django is a lot different...
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Those pesky sleeps
Posted on Tue, 05 Aug 2025
You certainly should visit Bulgaria Paul. This country, like all of the countries in the Balkans, are encrusted in jewels of history and culture that the rest of Europe knows nothing about. As an example, have a look on Google for ...
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Carrying the weight
Posted on Sat, 12 Jul 2025
It's often incredible how we take on responsibility simply because nobody else is there to do it. Your poem contains powerful words that make the practical and emotional hardship that you went through really stand out, along with what you missed...
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Michael Wood but I wouldn't.
Posted on Tue, 01 Jul 2025
About twenty years ago my kids and I stayed a night in the village of Blarney. We didn’t go to the castle because we were all quite talkative already. The following morning, we left the guest house just as the sun rose to drive the few kilometres...
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A sad time
Posted on Fri, 27 Jun 2025
I know it's so very hard Jane. to lose a cat. New cats can be had, and they will be lovely little joybringers, but they can never be a replacement for those characters we've loved before.
We try to console ourselves with the thought that a...
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Fonts
Posted on Sun, 22 Jun 2025
Hello WWJA.
From my experience, I'd say you need to get the font size right on your original document before you copy to the ABC site page.
But further, I'm reasonably confident in saying that you could adjust the font size on your...
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Brown bread is brown bread
Posted on Sun, 08 Jun 2025
I'm a death is death kinda guy too. In all my years there has never been any sign that there is anything else. And even if there is a heaven and a hell, they'll be rammed with those 'England's already full' sort of people so they won't let me in...
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