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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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Alfred N.Muggins has a Bad Dream : Brinkmanship (Inside the Mind of Vladimir Plutin : Victory For Russia!)
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14/5/22 Ukraine needed rebuilding! His toyships had blasted the coastal cities and the Donbas, as well as taking quite a number of potshots at Lvov...
A Trip to the Supermarket (Tesco’s) After Work! By Mr Alfred N.Muggins Part 3
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Part 3 Time was dragging as well. Alfred felt the loss of free time more keenly at the moment as he was in work which was very much full time at the...
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A Trip to the Supermarket (Tesco’s) After Work! By Mr Alfred N.Muggins Part 2
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Part 2 Monday 16/1/23 (section written 21/2/23) Having found his wife in the non food part of the large shop he desperately tried to encourage her...
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You are managing to 'sell'
Posted on Wed, 05 Jan 2022
You are managing to 'sell' Bulgaria very well Turlough, the land of everlasting Christmas Trees, which just keep on growing. Alfred wants to know whether the Bulgarians enjoy sprouts, and whether they grow their own or get them imported from...
Read full commentPosted in Offences Against The Christmas Spirit (A list of crimes and offences against the sacred Spirit of Christmas) by Mr Alfred N.Muggins
Good poem Marandina! You
Posted on Wed, 05 Jan 2022
Good poem Marandina! You brought me back to the romantic legends of King Arthur and Avalon etc. which I have always enjoyed. I am, in a sense, surprised that tower hasn't blown away, as it was exceedingly windy when I went there some years ago....
Read full commentPosted in Ynys Wydryn (Glastonbury Tor)
I did enjoy this piece. For a
Posted on Thu, 30 Dec 2021
I did enjoy this piece. For a few minutes I really thought the American Revolution was not going to happen! That was quick thinking! (The Genesis of a new nation!! Wow!)
Read full commentPosted in Philadelphia Freedom and Phil Collins
Your poem is reminding me a
Posted on Fri, 31 Dec 2021
Your poem is reminding me a little of Bruce Springsteen's 'The River'. The new year is like the high expectations at the beginning which turns into the river of life as the year (or life!) passes/flows. I like the imagery you have used! Happy new...
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I like this poem and how it
Posted on Sat, 01 Jan 2022
I like this poem and how it marries optimism with the regressive effects of the pandemic and decline of our health and social systems. You express the mixed feelings of entering the new year at this time! Happy New Year nonetheless!
Read full commentPosted in To Be or Not to Be (an optimist)
I read this to my wife this
Posted on Fri, 24 Dec 2021
I read this to my wife this morning with our first cup of tea in bed, my first full reading of it, and we both enjoyed it. I like the way you have turned Boris into Scrooge with the ghosts of christmases, past, present and future. Mrs Thatcher...
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I have suspended my Christmas
Posted on Wed, 29 Dec 2021
I have suspended my Christmas chill-out to read this contemplative and sad poem! (briefly!) But you do have the feelings of the graveyard here perfectly. We must try to remember our dead as we would hope to be remembered ourselves. It occurs to...
Read full commentPosted in In Memoriam
This reminds me of holidays I
Posted on Fri, 10 Dec 2021
This reminds me of holidays I have been on, and observations to be made on them. It is very funny, and familiar too. I like the way you observe the characters, all from their particular regions or backgrounds, and then realise that some of them...
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Thanks for your entertaining
Posted on Thu, 16 Dec 2021
Thanks for your entertaining and thought provoking questions, and for reading and commenting Turlough. I guess Marie Antoinette did say the right thing after all, even if it wasn't enough to save her from the guillotine! Although if I have not...
Read full commentPosted in Alfred N.Muggins : The Man Responsible For Bringing Fact and Fiction Together! (In A New Way) : Remolding and Renovating History : Part 3 : Evolution Not Revolution
I enjoyed this poem! You
Posted on Thu, 16 Dec 2021
I enjoyed this poem! You eloquently sum up much of what it is to become older.
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