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carpe diem

By celticman on Mon, 15 Feb 2016

At a personal level I don’t like funerals much. Life everlasting gets a trifle wearing. Leave it the professionals and all that. I brief the priest...

Spiritual

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Trigger

By celticman on Fri, 12 Feb 2016

Homes built by spread sheets Sterling flows half-level to half level Splitsection soundaspace Stuck-up tower blocks. Designed by gods Jean or Jacques...

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thank-you notes

By celticman on Mon, 01 Feb 2016

I wrote thank-you notes as a child. A thick HB3 pencil in my chubby mit. The pencil sharpener on the teacher’s desk, head height, was a big thing...

Romance

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Bernie the bolt.

By celticman on Fri, 22 Jan 2016

I got a text message on the way back from Dalmuir Station. I checked my phone. Saw it was from Bernie. “Cm up & see me,” it read. His flat was...

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aye, as an old baldy, I

Posted on Sat, 18 Mar 2017

aye, as an old baldy, I sympathise. No next time!

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nicely done.

Posted on Fri, 10 Mar 2017

nicely done.

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a trumpet for a brother, a

Posted on Sun, 26 Feb 2017

a trumpet for a brother, a trumpet for a sister, my guess is your guess, is that the broom that sweeps may, indeed, sweep us all away.

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I know lots of stories about

Posted on Fri, 24 Feb 2017

I know lots of stories about drinking and drunks, some funny, some sad, some funny and sad at the same time. How do we reach honesty? That's a different story, and one which I'm not quite sure how it ends. I think you've had a good crack at here...

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I like that Phil. All writing

Posted on Tue, 21 Feb 2017

I like that Phil. All writing is the Wizard of Oz pulling the curtain away. You know that because you do it too.

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if you don't know if it's

Posted on Mon, 23 Jan 2017

if you don't know if it's fact or fiction, then that's a good measure. Not that it matters. We're all fictional creations. Life catches us all. Death, last and forever.

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two storey. (American

Posted on Sat, 11 Feb 2017

two storey. (American spelling story). Giro? seems more British than Russian. I guess there's no hyphen in bar top. You don't need top anyway. Bar is sufficient. There's a jump between Putin drinknig and leaving that is muddled. 'Turning on old...

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She aimed a finger at my head

Posted on Wed, 08 Feb 2017

She aimed a finger at my head, and slowly moved it forward until it rested on the gateway of my cursed recession. ' Descriptively, you know what you mean and I know what you mean after I read on, but maybe recession as a lead into baldness is...