David Kirtley
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David Kirtley
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A Trip to the Supermarket (Tesco’s) After Work! By Mr Alfred N.Muggins Part 1
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Monday 16/1/23 (written 18/1/23, 4/2/23, 24/4/23) After a trying intense day at the new job, which had proved a lot more difficult than he thought it...
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Coronavirus Runs Amok In India :Thoughts by Alfred N.Muggins
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5/7/21 The Muggins family, and everyone else in Britain, and doubtless many other careful countries, could not go abroad still, due to the gradual...
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Putin’s Blessing on the Old Soviet Union : An Anti Alternative View of Easter In Ukraine and Russia by Alfred N.Muggins
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8/4/23 (1/4/23) Putin is Death All things may be destroyed, Irrepressible nature repressed, Held down for the sake of conquest. There is more dying...
Easter : A Prayer For The Future by Alfred N.Muggins
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1/4/23 Easter is rebirth All things may grow again, Irrepressible nature, Cannot be held down. There is more living than dying, The defeat of winter...
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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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An awful realisation for John
Posted on Fri, 29 Oct 2021
An awful realisation for John, that he is the victim of his wife and her boyfriend! I do hope there is something he can do about it, but its all a bit too late for John? Good story!
Read full commentPosted in The Black Crow of Purgatory (Part 2 of 3)
I instantly feel sorry for
Posted on Wed, 27 Oct 2021
I instantly feel sorry for the character John, because of the manner of his death, and the nature of this purgatory/graveyard is certainly making me wonder what happens next! Certainly a good start.
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I enjoyed your poem. Every
Posted on Tue, 19 Oct 2021
I enjoyed your poem. Every time I read it it puts me in the mood for Halloween! It is interesting to read about the Celtic background to Halloween, which I had not appreciated before.
Read full commentPosted in Samhain and Beyond
I also enjoyed this poem. You
Posted on Tue, 05 Oct 2021
I also enjoyed this poem. You described the feeling/situation of strangers passing in the street very effectively, and in a moody way!
Read full commentPosted in Strangers on a Street
Good story, a bit sad, but
Posted on Tue, 14 Sep 2021
Good story, a bit sad, but very heartening in the end! Life goes on and our animals do need us!
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A fitting memory of it.
Posted on Fri, 10 Sep 2021
A fitting memory of it. Watching a documentary about it again has reminded me of the extreme horror and extreme spectacle of it!
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Great poem, showing the
Posted on Tue, 24 Aug 2021
Great poem, showing the desperation, disappointment, and tragedy of those queueing or jostling outside the airport at Kabul. These are scenes that should not be happening, one way or another, a modern horror story. What went wrong? What could...
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I did enjoy this! You have
Posted on Tue, 17 Aug 2021
I did enjoy this! You have written it well. It shows the feelings of leaving home, moving on, very well!
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The shaggy blonde Etonian
Posted on Wed, 28 Jul 2021
The shaggy blonde Etonian does have some interesting friends, and he keeps meeting them, but can he trust any of them? I enjoyed the satire and the pantomime Marandina. You have shown the spirit of the times very accurately!
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This did make me laugh. I
Posted on Mon, 02 Aug 2021
This did make me laugh. I enjoyed it. We all have difficulty controlling ourselves and following best laid plans!
Read full commentPosted in How Roger Came to Spend Lockdown on the Sofa in His Underpants
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