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This Sort of Thing - December 2023 - Side A
Stand aside Tristram Shandy, this is The Life and Opinions of Turlough Ó Maoláin, Gentleman. Compiled during the early part of December 2023, at a rate of one hundred words per day.
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Goody Two Shoes
It’s hard to find something to give up if you’re doing nothing bad in the first place.
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Lingo Bingo
An explanation of the labour of love of my life that may have started out a long time ago as a labour of clinging on to my life.
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Children of the Absolution
A recollection of thoughts I had during my childhood in the 1960s. I intended writing them down long before now but I was always terrified to death at the thought of the potential consequences.
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Piblokto
Piblokto: a culture-specific syndrome occurring among traditional Inuit people, particularly women, characterized by an outburst of cries or screams, the removal of clothing, and seeming possession by a bird or animal spirit. Scientists believe that the causes include extreme cold and a lack of sunlight.
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I didn't know he was dead. I
Posted on Fri, 23 Feb 2024
I didn't know he was dead. I should pay more attention to what's going on.
Elkie Brooks is still with us though. She had a great voice when she was with Vinegar Joe.
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Ah, yes! I changed a couple
Posted on Fri, 23 Feb 2024
Ah, yes! I changed a couple of the words, partly because of the copyright thing and partly because our Johnny doesn't really run.
I didn't know that Robert Palmer was from Yorkshire. Born in Batley, according to Wiki. I wonder why he never...
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Well he doesn't tell me why
Posted on Fri, 23 Feb 2024
Well he doesn't tell me why he wants the cash but he doesn't try very hard to hide the outcome.
Many thanks to you for reading and commenting.
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Kids... absolutely precious...
Posted on Wed, 21 Feb 2024
Kids... absolutely precious... they distract the mind from everything that's wrong with the world.
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Shockingly lovely.
Posted on Fri, 16 Feb 2024
A great reminder that what we have contains so much more beauty and tranquilty than the homes of much of the rest of the world. I wish that wasn't true but it is. Your words soften the reader's frame of mind before the contrast and the harsh...
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The quizzical look...
Posted on Sat, 17 Feb 2024
The ghosts won't go away, but thankfully neither will the face in the photograph. It never could.
I can see that quizzical look on her face. I've seen it many times.
And I can see the need for the dreamtime gun.
A deeply...
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Thanks very much for your
Posted on Thu, 15 Feb 2024
Thanks very much for your kind words Penny4AT.
I hope the paper from your factory tasted better than our crisps.
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Now I understand why shopping
Posted on Wed, 14 Feb 2024
Now I understand why shopping takes so long.
I can really imagine this conversation taking place.
Certainly a poem to bring out the smiles.
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I try to do this not waking
Posted on Tue, 13 Feb 2024
I try to do this not waking up thing myself, Rhiannon, but I'm always met on the landing by an infestation of cats that all want to dive in to drink running water from the tap in the bathroom washbasin. To me it seems I waste my time.
The...
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Gypsies
Posted on Mon, 05 Feb 2024
Ah now, my heart’s full of special music.
I’ve dozens of favourites and if I listed them all you’d get bored but top of the tree is David Bowie.
I was brought up on Irish music (Dubliners, Clancy Brothers, Planxty, Josef Locke) and...
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