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Papa’s Got a Brand New Chainsaw
The usual rigmarole. Half a month (this bit being the first half of November) described using precisely one hundred words per day.
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Inca Ice and Lupins
How do you do? I’m in Peru!
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Nor Any Drop to Drink
The final fifteen days of Bulgaria’s October fun.
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Water Water Everywhere
The first sixteen days of October’s Bulgarian fun.
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Street Dreams
Middlesbrough, the town of my recurring dreams.
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'We shouldn't be so harsh on
Posted on Fri, 24 Dec 2021
'We shouldn't be so harsh on Boris Johnson. He's done such a lot to revive the Dickensian way of celebrating Christmas,' said Bob Cratchit's son, Tiny Tim.
An excellent piece of writing Paul. Amusing from start to finish.
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Aye, imagine being at Michael
Posted on Sun, 12 Dec 2021
Aye, imagine being at Michael Bublé's house at Christmas. You'd need a lot of Advocaat to survive that.
Read full commentPosted in Saints and Sinners - A Christmas Fable (Part One of Two)
I read news like this almost
Posted on Tue, 07 Dec 2021
I read news like this almost every day. It's sickening that an uncaring world can push people to the point where they have to risk their lives in this way. How bad must the life be that they are trying to escape from for them to accept that...
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For years I worked with
Posted on Wed, 27 Oct 2021
For years I worked with elderly people and seeing them caught by dementia used to break my heart. Your words describing your Mum's situation have brought back so many memories of complete strangers who I came to love before slowly but ultimately...
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I love reading diaries.
Posted on Sat, 23 Oct 2021
A long, long time ago I worked on ships. Working and living with people in such close proximity for six to eight months at a time whilst thousands of miles from home made me feel I got a deep understanding of, and closeness to, colleagues that I...
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A nice bit of secrecy.
Posted on Tue, 12 Oct 2021
I really enjoyed your poem Rhiannon. It hadn't crossed my mind that adults speaking in code in front of their kids was a form of keeping things secret. I remember it being a struggle with my kids, and then an even bigger struggle when they...
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Like a horse and carriage...
Posted on Mon, 27 Jul 2026
I never write about the immediate family I grew up with. There is so much I could write about my mother but just the thought of doing so darkens my mind every time. My prude of a sister has recently divorced, her husband having walked out on her...
Read full commentPosted in The Way We Heard - All Time Low
Pointless
Posted on Mon, 27 Jul 2026
On the other hand, I had many other clients whose marriages lasted a long time and people congratulated them for it, but secretly they had been far from happy. As a therapist visiting their homes I was almost a stranger so they felt comfortable...
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Cor phew!
Posted on Mon, 27 Jul 2026
Brilliant! Good on that groom!
I used to have a client in Melksham who was a real stay-at-home sort of woman and hated anything foreign, especially foreign countries and the people who lived in them. Her and her husband always went to...
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Jeux Sans Frontières
Posted on Sat, 01 Aug 2026
Yeah, but what the media aren't telling us is that the Infantino-Trump comedy duo are turning their attention instead to It's a Knockout!
'It's what Uncle Eddie Waring would have wanted', claimed Pete Hegseth.
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