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Strimmer Time and the Living is Easy
All the things I saw, did, said, mopped up, or read about during the first sixteen days of May.
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Teeth of Many Colours
All the things I saw, did, said, tasted, felt or read about during the latter fifteen days of April.
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T-Cut on the A-Bomb
All the things I saw, did, said, smelt or read about during the first fifteen days of April.
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What a Waist
Eating food is a reason to be cheerful, and the pleasure I get from it is something I’ve attempted to celebrate here in the style of Ian Dury and The Blockheads. If you know their work you could perhaps sing along with my words.
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Was Danielle Steel in Steely Dan?
Marching on together through the latter sixteen days of the month at a steady rate of one hundred words per day.
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Belshazzar's or Bust
Posted on Wed, 25 Feb 2026
But lest I paint too bleak a picture...
You’ve done the complete opposite. The detail with which you’ve described your town tells me it’s packed with places that I’d spend much of my time in if I lived there.
When Mary...
Read full commentPosted in 5. Secondhand Prose
Ramsgate '71
Posted on Wed, 18 Feb 2026
I get Tom, completely. From being a kid to becoming a pensioner I felt a lead weight in my belly at the end of every holiday I ever went on. On the way home from our six-week family holiday in Ramsgate in the summer of 1971 I was tearful and...
Read full commentPosted in Tom All Alone (13)
Clifton
Posted on Thu, 05 Feb 2026
Clifton's a lovely place Jenny. I've many great memories of it too. This is going to wreck my credibility as a would-be hippy but I once saw S Club 7 and Billie Piper performing live at the The Radio One Big Sunday gig on Clifton Downs. I might...
Read full commentPosted in Long ago Thoughts
Stories
Posted on Sun, 01 Feb 2026
Good on you for doing that Kat. It saddens me to think that so many wonderful stories of people I've known have been lost when they passed away, especially considering how different the times were that they lived through.
If I was the boss...
Read full commentPosted in I’ve Got a Gal in Tiramisu
Philtrum fun
Posted on Sun, 01 Feb 2026
Righto IPFN. That's sound advice. I wonder if Elon Musk ever reads this. Have I written anything that requires editing?
I love it when body parts have ambiguous names that people are sometimes nervous about mentioning. It's so easy to get...
Read full commentPosted in I’ve Got a Gal in Tiramisu
Embarking
Posted on Thu, 29 Jan 2026
Hiya Jenny.
I really like this bit...
embarking
on season's journey into spring,
with swiftness, rapid as a feline's
natural shift.
It's what I'm...
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Nuns
Posted on Sun, 18 Jan 2026
The lack of sex education is certainly a major contributing factor to the problem. As you say, it was good that the unmarried mothers at least had the likes of Nazareth House to go to, but that shouldn't have been necessary. Thankfully society...
Read full commentPosted in Letter to Ann Lovett (1968 - 1984)
Emotions
Posted on Sun, 18 Jan 2026
Thanks Kat.
The families, the authorities and the church pulled the raw emotions of these poor girls in all directions, and they were nearly always very young. With nobody to turn to it must have been absolute hell for them. There’s been a...
Read full commentPosted in Letter to Ann Lovett (1968 - 1984)
Out of Innocence
Posted on Sun, 18 Jan 2026
Such powerful words you have there Jane, and it’s a story the likes of which were repeated over and over again in Ireland. In the Catholic schools, young innocents (myself included) were told to love all those around them, but to teach them...
Read full commentPosted in Letter to Ann Lovett (1968 - 1984)
The ABC Beech Nut Germination Challenge 2026
Posted on Wed, 17 Dec 2025
Blessed are the chainsaw enthusiasts.
I knew about the float test which I’ve used before when planting other nuts and fruit stones but we didn’t have many beechnuts to go at from our Irish expedition so we planted the whole lot in compost...
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