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Sean Happens 3
Dad was sitting dozing outside the kitchen on a hard wooden seat. His balding head and ear were scarlet, and the sun had taken a blowtorch to his...
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Shug Happens 2
‘I want Shadow!’ Sean wailed and cried so much he choked like an asthmatic on his own last breath. Mum had to hold on to her son or Sean would...
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Hillsborough
Be damned your Maxwell and Murdochs Poodle politicians and Tory scum On a private-public leash Hauled o’er the Lepping Lane The smashed road of David...
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Sean Happens.
‘Yer little friends are no so little noo,’ said Auntie Evie. She was skinny, dark haired and exhausted looking, but not as exhausted look as my mum...
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The Little Lady
I think I deserved a little whisky and water to help me through the interviews. We’d agency doing the cleaning, but I’d told my wife it would be...
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Never to late to grow old.
Posted on Mon, 19 Jan 2026
Never to late to grow old. Existentialism is a small price to pay for wanting to stay.
Read full commentPosted in 3. An Expedition To The Pole (iii)
I think we guessed harry is
Posted on Wed, 21 Jan 2026
I think we guessed harry is harry. Sometimes we're too quick to put ourself down. I'm a fan. Lots of stuff written about success. We'd all like a little nibble, I'd guess.
Read full commentPosted in 4. Away with Words (i)
the sheep are sheeping Mr
Posted on Sun, 11 Jan 2026
the sheep are sheeping Mr Muggins.
Read full commentPosted in The Sheep Are (Were?) Asleep! by Alfred N.Muggins
mum is always best.
Posted on Thu, 08 Jan 2026
mum is always best.
Read full commentPosted in Gone But Not Forgotten
It makes me mad enough to
Posted on Sat, 13 Dec 2025
It makes me mad enough to write a letter to the Daily Mail about the segregation of schools. Nobody believes in anything any more. All children go to interdemonational nurseries or they're just left about street corners with their fags. In our...
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makes sense of a kind of
Posted on Thu, 11 Dec 2025
makes sense of a kind of sadness.
Read full commentPosted in The Day, Every Day
ah, GlosKat, I think I need
Posted on Wed, 10 Dec 2025
ah, GlosKat, I think I need an eye test. Ludwig Wittgenstein: What a picture must have in common with reality in order to represent it after its manner—rightly or falsely—is its form of representation. We see what we think we see, even if we don'...
Read full commentPosted in R&D 5
violence is believing it's
Posted on Thu, 11 Dec 2025
violence is believing it's necessary as you show.
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cheers TJ, who knows what
Posted on Wed, 10 Dec 2025
cheers TJ, who knows what path we take? Not Abraham. Not me.
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I wondered where Pudgy
Posted on Tue, 09 Dec 2025
I wondered where Pudgy Maxwell's van went to. He might well have sold it to your dad. He'd drag two seats out of the pub, with a punter standing in the middle. Bit shuggly. But good enough to get you to the Celtic match. Pope John Paul II...
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