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StoryTOO LATE FOR GOODBYES skinner_jennifer201 month 6 days ago
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StoryOne-armed combat seashore73 months 3 weeks ago
StoryFifty-One Empty Places at the Dinner Table Turlough404 months 5 days ago
StoryKaty, A Ghost Story (IP) insertponceyfre...594 months 6 days ago
StoryAura Urziceanu’s Lullaby Effect Turlough174 months 4 weeks ago
StoryPoor Penka’s Parting Turlough125 months 7 hours ago
StoryThe Fish on the Hill Turlough185 months 3 days ago
StoryTan Remembered Toes Turlough185 months 1 week ago
StoryIsland of Dreams Turlough255 months 3 weeks ago
StoryClochán an Aifir (The Giant’s Causeway) Turlough146 months 1 day ago
StoryIntroducing Turlough Ó Maoláin, Performance Poet Turlough176 months 3 days ago
StoryWhen Life Gives You Flags Turlough156 months 3 weeks ago
StoryNihil Impossibile Erit Vobis Turlough227 months 1 day ago
StoryHot Cross Buns and Fish and Chips Turlough187 months 1 week ago
StoryJohnny Ten Levs vs Jack Daniels Turlough77 months 1 week ago
StoryThe Lighthouse Keeper of Ras Gombo Turlough198 months 1 day ago
StoryNow We Are Parents Mr. Moon138 months 5 days ago
StoryThe Archers in Cyrillic Script Turlough128 months 6 days ago
StoryFathoms Above Turlough288 months 3 weeks ago
Blog entryStory and Poem of the Month insertponceyfre...29 months 1 week ago
StoryEleven Thousand Silent Playmates Turlough2310 months 3 days ago
StoryMaking Do with Dusty Springfield Turlough1910 months 4 days ago
StoryGoth Kit (IP) Caldwell1110 months 6 days ago
StoryAll the Chai in China Turlough1710 months 1 week ago

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Killing the killers

Not for the faint-hearted. Just a way of releasing the anger regarding the preventable death of my daughter resulting from the side effects of a drug now known to be responsible for over 400 deaths a year.
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Poem of the week

AND SO IT IS

And so it is as a planet mourns and the grey sleepless days and nights of grief and isolation build to an inevitable crescendo In Spring, the daily...
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Blue

The recent loss of my firstborn has brought back the pain of another loss...
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Pick of the Month

Branwell Clinic

As I'm finding it difficult to write at the moment, I will continue to let my daughter Julia (Overthetop1) live on through her own writing, until I am ready. Coral Jane (seashore).
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One-armed combat

Yet another of Julia's posthumous pieces (Overthetop1). Hard-hitting, but that's the way she was.

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76 of my comments have received 79 Great Feedback votes

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...and you doubt your skill

Posted on Wed, 12 Feb 2025

...and you doubt your skill as a poet?? Don't ever do that again Terry, this is simply brilliant x

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Posted in Fathoms Above

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So pleased for you Terry (and

Posted on Fri, 01 Sep 2023

So pleased for you Terry (and for me and my girl too) x

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Posted in You Never Said

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No you may not be fine, but

Posted on Thu, 20 Oct 2016

No you may not be fine, but your description of not being fine, resonates.

I'm not fine either by the way.

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Posted in Anxiety

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How much did you already know

Posted on Fri, 09 May 2025

How much did you already know or research about this?
Did you live near it at one point?

Ah, just read the bit where you answer my above question.

Brilliant use of language, I don't know how you do it. x

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Posted in Clochán an Aifir (The Giant’s Causeway)

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I notice in your somewhat

Posted on Mon, 03 Mar 2025

I notice in your somewhat random list for my birthday 24th Feb (already several years beyond the average lifespan) you start with Geordies wear jumpers.

Indeed this adopted Geordie can be seen wearing one all year round, despite no longer...

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Posted in The Archers in Cyrillic Script

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Golden cherries very well

Posted on Thu, 27 Feb 2025

Golden cherries very well deserved. I love lighthouses anyway, they fascinate me.

This piece is beautifully crafted. Needed my thesaurus to interpret some of the words I'd never heard of but I love words anyway,so sometimes the sounds...

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Posted in The Lighthouse Keeper of Ras Gombo

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I really like this. As you

Posted on Sun, 05 Jan 2025

I really like this. As you know, very much my kind of thing. Nostalgia at its best.x

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Posted in Making Do with Dusty Springfield

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Managed a titter after

Posted on Fri, 03 Jan 2025

Managed a titter after reading both pieces...or maybe more of a lol, after taking my ibuprofen
(other medications are available) x

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Posted in All the Chai in China

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Made my day too X

Posted on Mon, 16 Dec 2024

Made my day too X

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Posted in Velvet Goldmine

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Dear brilliant Terry,

Posted on Mon, 16 Dec 2024

Dear brilliant Terry, yesterday you sent me the draft of this for approval.

I messaged you back to say words fail me; it's such a beautifully written piece, full of emotion, there's absolutely nothing I could criticise.

Thank you...

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Posted in Velvet Goldmine

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