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Stevie Tait

By celticman on Sat, 26 Dec 2020

Morrisey sang The Last of the Famous International Playboys on the radio and I quickly turned it off. Some windows were blacked out with yellowing...

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Dav Prentice.

By celticman on Tue, 22 Dec 2020

I shouldn’t have laughed when I heard Dav Prentice was dead. We were talking about football in the Horse and Barge, but then Brendan took off on a...

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June Collins

By celticman on Mon, 21 Dec 2020

Tam Collin’s mum’s funeral was during lockdown. Tam was around the same age as me, so I guess that put her in her eighties. I knew Tam’s son too, Tam...

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george devine

By celticman on Sun, 20 Dec 2020

George Devine died before lockdown. He wouldn’t have known what it meant, or recognised it as a historical event of before and—I hadn’t seen him in...

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I guess marriage was part of

Posted on Sun, 21 Aug 2022

I guess marriage was part of the plan.

Posted in Thirteen Letters. Chapter Five.

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blessed indeed.

Posted on Sun, 21 Aug 2022

blessed indeed.

Posted in Thirteen Letters. Chapter Four.

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I was one of a family of five

Posted on Sun, 21 Aug 2022

I was one of a family of five. My mum lost two (perhaps three kids) I was too young to count. God, how did she do it, I ask now. You provide some answers.

Posted in Any room for a small one?

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if the surgeons are having a

Posted on Sun, 21 Aug 2022

if the surgeons are having a look and able to snip off polyps (as they routinely do, as you described) that wouldn't and shouldn't be a problem. The dilemma as I read it is Schrodinnger's cat.

Posted in Internal Workings

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sadly true.

Posted on Sun, 21 Aug 2022

sadly true.

Posted in The war

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if you don't ask you don't

Posted on Sat, 20 Aug 2022

if you don't ask you don't get. I won't be tryng that at home.

Posted in Thirteen Letters. Chapter Two.

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I think HItler and Stalin

Posted on Fri, 19 Aug 2022

I think HItler and Stalin were monsters. Hundreds of millions died. Putin to is a monster. But of lesser magnitured unless he starts another war. Trump is a moster too. As is Boris Johnson. It's all a matter of magnitude.

Posted in Knights Of the Keyboard To the Defence of Ukraine (Part 2) by Alfred N.Muggins

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She did the right thing. The

Posted on Wed, 17 Aug 2022

She did the right thing. The moron's moron's grip on the Repbulican party boggles belief She is part of the Republican Party but not part of the cult of Donald. Her dad, as Vice President, with his links to Lee Raymond, CEO of ExxonMobil helped...

Posted in Profile in Courage

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yes, I've been readng a bit

Posted on Thu, 18 Aug 2022

yes, I've been readng a bit about this and the centre cannot hold. This is one vision. Mine tends towards the dystopian.

Posted in THE TRIALS OF AN ANGEL (part1)

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I like the sound of woodruff.

Posted on Wed, 17 Aug 2022

I like the sound of woodruff. I like the sound of this. I wonder if your mum and grandma wondered too. I guess like you.