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3. An Expedition To The Pole (i)

By HarryC on Sun, 18 Jan 2026

An evening at The North Pole was called for. For me, The Pole is the best pub around. Comfortably shabby, like your grandad's old Ford Escort, and...

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Waiting for Godot 2026

By HarryC on Sun, 11 Jan 2026

An absurdist tragi-comedy for the modern age, in two acts. (image: mine) ACT ONE A country road. A tree. Evening. Estragon, sitting on a low mound,...

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2. Small Town Sunday Walking Blues...

By HarryC on Tue, 06 Jan 2026

Down three flights, past doors through which I could hear TVs, music, shouting - the predictable backing track of domestic life. It seemed like all...

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1. A Sunday Kind of Loving...

By HarryC on Tue, 06 Jan 2026

I'm rehashing something that I first started posting on ABC when I joined 20 years ago. I had no idea what to do with it then, but have a better idea...

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Wonderful. I love the mix of

Posted on Sun, 01 Feb 2026

Wonderful. I love the mix of the personal, local, global, universal and surreal in these. Makes me think of Alan Bennett's diaries. Wonder what the Trumpians will come up with next in their mangling of truth and language.

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Fabulous. So many great lines

Posted on Sun, 01 Feb 2026

Fabulous. So many great lines and images.

'Outside, rain splices the city's circuitry.'

'the hum of nothing happening,'

What lives where signals stop... something that so often gets lost now, or dies - like that silence in...

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I often think about doing the

Posted on Fri, 23 Jan 2026

I often think about doing the same, Jenny - finding my younger self, putting my arm around him, telling him it'll all be alright in the end. It might just take some time, that's all. Doesn't seem that long ago, does it. Does it?

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I don't mind - I have so

Posted on Thu, 22 Jan 2026

I don't mind - I have so many pseudonyms online! My old Facebook name was Will...

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Just read this... since

Posted on Sun, 18 Jan 2026

Just read this... since making my own comment. Yes, it's a fine, though harrowing book. And film. Claire Keegan is a fine writer. Her short story collection 'Walk The Blue Fields' is one I'd recommend. Also, another fine Irish writer (though not...

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A fine poem, Jane, and a very

Posted on Sun, 18 Jan 2026

A fine poem, Jane, and a very strong and fitting testament. I can't add more to what's been said already.

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Brilliant!

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Brilliant!

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Thanks for your encouragement

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Thanks for your encouragement, Claudine. I should have stuck with the original idea. This has taken it in a direction that creates difficulties I don't want, and takes it away from what I was trying to achieve with it.

That's writing,...

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Agreed. These

Posted on Sun, 22 Jun 2025

Agreed. These categorisations all become meaningless over time. And it starts with the language, of course. The process of dehumanisation. 'Migrant', 'druggie', 'leftie', etc. It becomes easier to hate or dismiss someone if they've got a...

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You've put into words

Posted on Sun, 22 Jun 2025

You've put into words something it's difficult to find words for. I echo Kilb50's sentiments. I feel the same. When we're confronted with these daily reports and images, all it does is increase the anger, frustration, sense of helplessness. All...