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new dog for old
After his mum’s death Bob decided to get a dog. He’d been laid off after working for the same company for almost thirty years, his wife had left him...
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Ramadan
I’m trying to find a piece of paper with the dates of Ramadan on it. The Muslim religious festival. For those of you that know me, you’d be right on...
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before she could not
Time slept away Scarred by dreams Swelled by sorry Blaze of golden autumn Slips green from the bed Skeletal, breastbone visible Grief roars in her...
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Tour de Falkirk
Bod, my wee brother, was still in lockdown mode, hoarding Digestive biscuits and t-bags, but he lived in Grangemouth and they’re used to that kind of...
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Vocations
Since vocation Sunday was coming up, Mrs Doyle thought we were old enough to ask the question, ‘What do you want to do when you grow up?’ She was a...
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tragic, like you I don't have
Posted on Sat, 01 Dec 2018
tragic, like you I don't have an answer. Poverty, not morals is the key. We use the latter as a scapegoat, a standared practice by, for example, Jenhovah Witnesses to get a foot in the door, is to say how much worse the world is getting. They've...
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to teach them a lesson.. Yeh
Posted on Fri, 03 Jul 2020
to teach them a lesson.. Yeh, that about sums up genocide.
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lovely. words that bewitch.
Posted on Wed, 22 Apr 2020
lovely. words that bewitch. images that travel. wisdom in poetic form.
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I did read a couple of posts
Posted on Wed, 25 Mar 2020
I did read a couple of posts about Charles and Camilla. And a story in The Guardian (so it must be true) that they didn't jump any hospital queues. They are 71 and 72. I almost feel sorry for the future king and his consort. It wasn't that long...
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oh, well, as long as you don
Posted on Sat, 14 Dec 2019
oh, well, as long as you don't talk about politics...
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children's language is a
Posted on Sun, 28 Jul 2019
children's language is a thing of joy.
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I'm a great friend of the
Posted on Wed, 15 May 2019
I'm a great friend of the potato, humble potato, hot potato, mashed potato. swanny potato.
Read full commentPosted in The Identity of the Potato and the Swan
you reap what you sow, if it
Posted on Sun, 17 Mar 2019
you reap what you sow, if it were only so. The world would be so much better But as we can see, all people in poverty would agree. Those of wealth and no little stealth. What would they say, but life's weather made me that way.
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well, I thnk you handled the
Posted on Sat, 10 Nov 2018
well, I thnk you handled the situation very humanely and if that's normal for people with Aspereger's then I'd like more people to be diagnosed.
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some readers give cherries,
Posted on Sat, 28 Jul 2018
some readers give cherries, some don't. It's nice, like hundreds and thousands on top of ice cream, or even cherry and ice cream, but the ice cream tastes the same.
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