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Devil Gate Drive
Between our village, Malki Chiflik, and our capital, Sofia, the road cuts its way through the Balkan range of mountains, assisted by several lofty...
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Mother Bulgaria
As Lenin looks down from his sombre pedestal Concrete erupts from a bleak landscape like The broken teeth of windswept peasants Drinking homemade...
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Betty Lewis Eyes
A teapot on a tray she brings. Digestive in each saucer. Horrific tales of war to tell But only if she’s forced to. She’s angelic, prim and ninety...
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Crucial Moves of Fantasy
Sit back and watch the sea above Where images of waves and whales and fish and ships Collide and slide and get mixed up Until it is a sea no more But...
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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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Why?
Posted on Mon, 13 Jan 2025
The subject of your story is one of a serious and disturbing nature. I’d be interested to know how you see fit to include the acronym ‘LOL’ in the title.
Read full commentPosted in LOL! Part Two.
Sad news
Posted on Sat, 11 Jan 2025
I'm so very sorry to hear your sad news. I admire you for the way you have been able to put your feelings of loss into a poem, though I suspect there are no real words that would adequately describe the depth of your hurting. Memories of such a...
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He's fallen in the water.
Posted on Sat, 11 Jan 2025
It's incredible how when something goes badly, or totally wrong, it can lead on to a series of good things in our lives. I'd say this happened to me and possibly / probably to most people, though not everybody... sometimes things are far too...
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Setting number 8
Posted on Thu, 09 Jan 2025
An inner privacy's a great place. I thrive in mine. People sometimes think I'm miserable or depressed but I'm not. I'm just being alone whilst in the company of others, knowing that I'm not boring anybody and that I'm not likely to be disagreed...
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Cheerful but violent
Posted on Tue, 07 Jan 2025
Hello Paul.
The 'Boro also had the Brazilian Junior and Fabrizio Ravanelli before football was overloaded with imported players. Ravanelli was said to be the first player in British football to run round with his shirt over his head in a...
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Compelling
Posted on Sat, 04 Jan 2025
Every picture tells a story and every story sparks a thousand emotions.
This makes compelling reading Harry, as always.
Read full commentPosted in Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Photographs
Karaoke
Posted on Tue, 07 Jan 2025
That's brilliant!
I'm looking forward to the update and the full song.
I read your words as I listened to the music. It was like a proper little karaoke session.
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Rory & Jimi
Posted on Tue, 07 Jan 2025
Jimmy Hendrix was once asked how it feels to be the best guitar player in the world. He replied - ask Rory Gallagher.
He was another one who died too early, in 1995 at the age of 47, as a consequence of wrongly prescribed drugs for the...
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It's nice to know I raised a
Posted on Sun, 05 Jan 2025
It's nice to know I raised a smile.
I have eight cats, all of which I rescued as pathetic starving kittens from the streets near where I live. There are indeed strays around here but most of them stay away because my own cats are so...
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Auto Rector
Posted on Fri, 03 Jan 2025
I'd offer to help but I've never found the switch to turn it on. Not within ABC anyway.
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