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Driving Home for Chris
Fish and ducks and rock and roll.
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A Kiss in the Solstice Abyss
A day to rejoice the year’s rebirth.
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A Hare's Breath 5 - The Dark Hedges
The thoughts of an old fella on his return to a wee town in the North of Ireland in the 2020s and his love for hares and nostalgia.
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A Hare's Breath 4 - The Horror
The thoughts of a wee boy in a wee town in the North of Ireland in the late 1960s and his love for a white Morris 1000 van and hares and bicycles and not being shot at and having a jumper to wear that doesn’t smell of sick.
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A Hare’s Breath 3 - The Accident
The thoughts of a wee boy in a wee town in the North of Ireland in the late 1960s and his love for a white Morris 1000 van and hares and bicycles and not being shot at.
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Johnson's Finger
Posted on Mon, 14 Apr 2025
It takes a very skilled writer to make me laugh at something that contains the words 'Boris' and 'Johnson'. In fact you've cheered me up immensely as I try to imagine that, despite everything that's going on in the world today, it would all be an...
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Germany
Posted on Mon, 31 Mar 2025
Apart from cherry cake and dirndln, football is probably my favourite thing about Germany. It's just so different to anywhere else I've watched it so I can well imagine the atmosphere at your second tier Hertha game. The last time I was in...
Read full commentPosted in Steelie 14
Suffering children
Posted on Fri, 17 Jan 2025
It is said that the cries of the suffering children can be heard echoing late into most nights.
That's what our neighbours used to say when we lived in York in the mid 1960s but it turned out they were talking about me and my...
Read full commentPosted in The Golden Fleece (Ghost Walk) Part Two of Two
Those women
Posted on Sat, 21 Dec 2024
I really like your line... Their songs like wire in no man's land
Some of the roughest times in history were passed down the years in song. Always thought provoking and haunting, as your poem is. Good on those women!
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Leeches
Posted on Wed, 18 Dec 2024
The effects of war, pollution, drought, disease and starvation inflict much more harm on the world and its population than potentially life-saving vaccines do, but many governments and the people who vote for them seem to be able to overlook that...
Read full commentPosted in Why I'm a consistent and unabashed 'anti-vaxxer'
Righto Di...
Posted on Mon, 16 Dec 2024
Righto Di, thank you.
It was the memory of Julia that brought me to ABC but that memory is the most difficult thing I have ever attempted to write about, especially when taking into consideration the awful circumstances of her unnecessary...
Read full commentPosted in Velvet Goldmine
The Balkans
Posted on Wed, 13 Nov 2024
There are several sides to this story CM. In the past I've spoken to Croats and Bosnians about those wars but this was the first time I'd had a conversation with a Serb. None of them have ever had anything to say on the subject that wasn't...
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Wooooooo!!!!
Posted on Mon, 30 Sep 2024
Do creatures of the night perceive apparitions?
What a wonderfully thought provoking question. Is it only humans that have a fear of the dark? Could it be that ghosts are scared of humans and that is why we rarely see them?...
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Can Can
Posted on Thu, 15 Aug 2024
Having cans lifted from you carry out is no joke. I feel for you CM. I feel it in my fingers. I feel it in my toes.
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Migration
Posted on Mon, 05 Aug 2024
I particularly like your
“Send a gunboat”
to repel rubber-gum-boats,
When did the rules change so that people were expected to remain for the whole of their lives in the country in which they were born? I expect it...
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