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Ugly Puggly 82
Because it was late when I got home, I thought I’d fall asleep right away. But Molly wouldn’t let me sleep beside her. She put me in the room next...
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Ugly Puggly 81
Wee Jim came up to the hospital to visit me. I’d have ducked him. But I’d haemorrhoids. My ducking days were over. I’d enough grief to deal with and...
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Ugly Puggly 80
I took a spoonful of lentil soup, tepid at best, but at least the caterers got the orangey colour right. It left my lips greasy and stained like a...
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Ugly Puggly 79
I used my good (non-wanking hand) to angle the telly. But I wasn’t sure how it worked. Whatever channel I flicked it onto seemed to drone extended...
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Ugly Puggly 78
Ugly Puggly told me a drunk was like a Russian novelist. Always close to tears. I rambled on. ‘I don’t believe in God or that kinda stuff,’ I told...
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tragic, like you I don't have
Posted on Sat, 01 Dec 2018
tragic, like you I don't have an answer. Poverty, not morals is the key. We use the latter as a scapegoat, a standared practice by, for example, Jenhovah Witnesses to get a foot in the door, is to say how much worse the world is getting. They've...
Read full commentPosted in When Death Comes Too Soon
I'm not sure there's enough
Posted on Tue, 24 May 2022
I'm not sure there's enough to live off in the forest. but what do I know. keep it running.
Read full commentPosted in The Castle (4)
you never do know what
Posted on Sun, 15 May 2022
you never do know what enlightenment will be. Settle for the fish tea.
Read full commentPosted in "Willow's Tail" 28
life is a shock perhaps
Posted on Fri, 06 May 2022
life is a shock perhaps unplanned, but you've got the fight to stay that way here.
Read full commentPosted in wheels to rotors
Good question, most Prime
Posted on Mon, 18 Apr 2022
Good question, most Prime Minister are duirng the honeymoon period regarded as competent. I don't include Boris in that, of course. David Cameron gave us austerity, by us I mean poor people. He gave rich people even more riches. And then he gave...
Read full commentPosted in Pointless Boris (Part One of Two)
I think this is unlikely as a
Posted on Thu, 20 Jan 2022
I think this is unlikely as a Trump presidecy, Oops, that happened.
Read full commentPosted in BBC TV Listings, Wednesday January 21st 2032.
perhaps this year perhaps
Posted on Fri, 07 Jan 2022
perhaps this year perhaps next. in the end it's the end.
Read full commentPosted in Resolution
anger and impotence. We
Posted on Tue, 16 Nov 2021
anger and impotence. We nullify outself as we look on at the slow-moving end ot it all. This is great. It captures how we feel.
Read full commentPosted in Drilling Out Blame
yes, our noisy ghosts are
Posted on Fri, 15 Oct 2021
yes, our noisy ghosts are often within, and found in the sin of dissociation.
Read full commentPosted in Esther Cox
watch, learn, pay attention.
Posted on Mon, 16 Aug 2021
watch, learn, pay attention. A mantra I wish, I wish, I could.
Read full commentPosted in Naples: balcony overlooking Via Firenza
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