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Grimms77
Junior hurries home. Tired and hungry, his hair sun-washed and lighter than his brothers’, he finds virtue in manual labour, skin lightly tanned and...
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Grimms 76
Awash with pints and halfs and even mouth puckering gin, with a slice of lemon and whisky in the same glass. Cocktails of his own devising. His day...
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Grimms75
With all the cash Jaz is carrying and the hurry-scurry Rab is surprised to be standing beside him at a bus stop waiting for a bus. Jaz has brought...
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Grimms 74
Jaz hears the loud screeching and the rising harangue which follows. It woke him up. It wakes the whole tenement block. The smell of cigarette smoke...
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Grimms73
‘You don’t need to be daft and drown yerself. You can just drink the poison to kill yerself.’ Bruno is deft at sneaking up on people and has big lugs...
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henrik and harold. I remember
Posted on Thu, 05 Aug 2021
henrik and harold. I remember it well. I'm sure my celebrations were someting like that, but nothign like that.
Read full commentPosted in Wan Goal tae the Good
I've not read a lot of Dylan
Posted on Sun, 08 Aug 2021
I've not read a lot of Dylan Thomas, but his words burtst from the page. I guess that's what we all aim for.
Read full commentPosted in Fleeting Observations Of A Poet
Hammer House of horrors, I
Posted on Sat, 07 Aug 2021
Hammer House of horrors, I remember it well.
Read full commentPosted in Vampire Wedding in North Cornwall
I suffer from saccaddes, it's
Posted on Tue, 03 Aug 2021
I suffer from saccaddes, it's a kind of work blindness, like sand in your eyes. You can obviously, see, poetry.
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geez don't spoit it, bring on
Posted on Sun, 01 Aug 2021
geez don't spoit it, bring on the sunshine.
Read full commentPosted in Dreams of Rain
Father Ambrose sounds like a
Posted on Fri, 30 Jul 2021
Father Ambrose sounds like a businessman, putting his mark down and sacking employees. Sad about the women who had to give their children away. I was shocked it was still happening in Ireland in the 1930s, with children dying of hunger. We always...
Read full commentPosted in Maria's Diary 37
beautiful.
Posted on Sat, 24 Jul 2021
beautiful.
Read full commentPosted in In IKEA, he dreams about the woman he loves
I guess war is always
Posted on Fri, 23 Jul 2021
I guess war is always described as inevitable. That way it's like a kid's told-you-so.
Read full commentPosted in Family Meetings
some cowards and heroes,
Posted on Fri, 23 Jul 2021
some cowards and heroes, typically, Englsimen desribed in glowing terms, lasars and coloured men in the former category. I guess it wasn't quite like that.
Read full commentPosted in Maria's Diary 35 The Shipwreck
poor sap. wonder what mother
Posted on Tue, 20 Jul 2021
poor sap. wonder what mother will say.
Read full commentPosted in When Robert Left Helen
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