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There’s a new sick line, for calling in sick apparently! By Alfred Muggins, Call Centre Agent!
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6/2/23 There’s a new sick line, for calling in sick apparently. We had a buzz meeting, and the team manager mentioned it. Apparently if we call in...
A Bad Deal! By Alfred Muggins
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23/1/23 Will there be anything of me left? Sign up for a proper job! Sell your time for an amount which really isn’t that much higher than the...
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Ride a White Horse to Banbury Cross! By Alfred N.Muggins Part 3
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Part 3 However someone up there must be winking at them, because about half way back to Daventry outside a pub, in the gathering darkness of a pub...
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Ride a White Horse to Banbury Cross! By Alfred N.Muggins Part 2
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Part 2 Daventry had been preparing for the evening’s Big Game, but the Mugginses had already seen Daventry, and had a lovely meal there, in a pub. It...
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Ride a White Horse to Banbury Cross! By Alfred N.Muggins Part 1
10/7/21 (30/5/23, 18/6/23) Part 1 Rolling countryside, very pleasant from Daventry into Banbury and Northern Oxfordshire! It started raining of...
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Thanks for commenting Insert,
Posted on Sun, 27 Mar 2022
Thanks for commenting Insert, and for the cherries, which I am very pleased with. I did this piece from the perspective of our lazy, indolent, comfortable western/modern lifestyle, shocked into fear and uncertainty by this rogue invasion of a...
Read full commentPosted in I Woke Up One Morning To Find The World Had Changed! By Alfred N.Muggins
I think this is a very clever
Posted on Tue, 22 Mar 2022
I think this is a very clever and well written piece! In the current circumstances I think many of us are hoping, but as writers I suppose we are not going to be much good at getting it done! I like the way Putin appears to be in full control...
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I like your poem Di Hard. It
Posted on Tue, 22 Mar 2022
I like your poem Di Hard. It perfectly captures the contrast between the victims in Mariupol, on the front line, while reporters and politicians debate the legal definitions of war crimes, while being unable or unwilling to risk themselves for...
Read full commentPosted in Guernica, Stalingrad, Grozny, Aleppo, Mariupol...
Some great words in this
Posted on Tue, 15 Mar 2022
Some great words in this balanced and wise poem. I haven't entirely taken it all in yet, but I do think this is a very hopeful and strong poem. Russia deserves better than this tinpot reactionary, and I am sure a nation of such beautiful music,...
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I have enjoyed reading your
Posted on Sun, 13 Mar 2022
I have enjoyed reading your piece Grace. After getting myself all wound up by watching the news over and over again at the moment, I am finding your reminder that wars and powerful rulers all must pass very comforting. Because you are right....
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It could so easily be any of
Posted on Fri, 11 Mar 2022
It could so easily be any of us, and we don't know where the whole war will end up for all of us. our fragile modern peace has been shattered. Your poem expresses what so many of us are feeling and what we need to feel, so that we can all...
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Great Poem Marandina! You
Posted on Wed, 02 Mar 2022
Great Poem Marandina! You perfectly describe the mood and the uncertainty in 'untouched' Moscow. I do hope your son will be able to complete his 3 months, but it may be wise to return. War could get nastier and Ukraine still end up occupied, but...
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Thanks for commenting Di Hard
Posted on Wed, 02 Mar 2022
Thanks for commenting Di Hard. I am thinking that maybe the European nations and Ukraine should have given Putin the guarantee he seems to want so badly that Ukraine cannot join NATO or the EU, and probably recognised Russia's annexation of...
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Maybe if western nations had
Posted on Wed, 02 Mar 2022
Maybe if western nations had agreed that Ukraine would be restricted from ever joining NATO or the EU the invasion could have been avoided? That might well have been a better solution than the current situation where Putin can sit on parts of the...
Read full commentPosted in Listening to the News 2/3/22
Good poem. You aptly sum up
Posted on Wed, 02 Mar 2022
Good poem. You aptly sum up the inevitable hypocrisy of our 'support' when western nations don't feel it wise to join their defence and trigger a wider war.
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