David Kirtley
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David Kirtley
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Holiday In The Midlands (July 2021) : An Inauspicious Start! By Mr Alfred N.Muggins
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5/7/21 (5/4/23) They left home after a morning and afternoon of packing, which Alfred always found stressful! As usual time almost immediately...
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The Courtier From The 21st Century Who Would Be King : The King Behind The Throne : King Henry VIII (Alfred the Great II) : Ch.4 by Alfred Muggins (himself) The Real Henry VIII Finds His Feet In 21st Century England! Part 1
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28/5/21 (27/2/23) Alfred had unleashed an aging and disgruntled Henry on the modern world! Where would he stop, now that he had found his feet? Henry...
The Courtier From The 21st Century Who Would Be King : The King Behind The Throne : King Henry VIII (Alfred the Great II) : Ch.3 by Alfred Muggins (himself) My Kingdom For A Pen!
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18/2/21 / (some editing 13/02/23) Alfred, styled still as Henry VIII, has learned from Henry’s historical mistakes, and with modern knowledge and...
The Courtier From The 21st Century Who Would Be King : The King Behind The Throne : King Henry VIII (Alfred the Great II) : Ch.2 by Alfred Muggins (himself)
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6/7/21 (15/2/23) As Alfred prepared to ‘swop’ places with Henry so the Great King could be saved by modern medicine, Alfred was ‘trained up’ by Henry...
The Courtier From The 21st Century Who Would Be King : The King Behind The Throne : King Henry VIII (Alfred the Great II) : Ch.1 by Alfred Muggins (himself)
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16/4/21 (21/10/21) Henry confided in his friend Alfred that he was becoming weary of his position as King. Everyone expected him to know the answer...
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...
Read full commentPosted in A Christmas Boris
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...
Read full commentPosted in Hotel Mediterraneo
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.
Read full commentPosted in The Old Guy
I did enjoy your poem when I
Posted on Tue, 07 Dec 2021
I did enjoy your poem when I first read it before, but the music, speech, and video certainly put another slant on it! It feels like an Englishman, or Yorkshireman's take on life, matters of taste and personal choice, but even more humourous with...
Read full commentPosted in Take It or Leave It (with music video)
This really is a great
Posted on Thu, 02 Dec 2021
This really is a great explanation and summary of what is taking place in people smuggling, and in desperate migration, and it happens not only in the English Channel but in various places around the world. As an appreciation of what so many must...
Read full commentPosted in I Can't Get Her Out Of My Head.
Interesting and evocative
Posted on Tue, 16 Nov 2021
Interesting and evocative snapshot of life in Bulgaria. It sounds like it has plenty of character, and perhaps more variety or surprises than places that have been capitalist or western for longer?
Read full commentPosted in The Friday Pazar in Gorna Oryahovitsa
Good piece. This is an
Posted on Tue, 16 Nov 2021
Good piece. This is an appropriate way of looking at our response to climate change. Capitalism and the profit motive, and vested interests will surely have slowed down the changes we need to make.
Read full commentPosted in ECOCIDE
I enjoyed the story and have
Posted on Sun, 31 Oct 2021
I enjoyed the story and have now finished it. I am glad to see that justice was served! I feel it would make a great film, as you have supplied much of the visual description, which could be translated into a great moody film. As you say it was...
Read full commentPosted in The Black Crow of Purgatory (Part 3 of 3)
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