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Elaine
On either side the profiles lie You choose the ones which catch your eye The pretty girls get picked, not I - Elaine of Cardiff (Splott). For...
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Nessie Saves The Day
This is a true story, and readers, I was there… Every bank holiday at the end of May, the Gloucestershire village of South Cerney has a Duck Race, in...
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Twenty Minutes at the Village Bus Stop
I'm sitting in the village bus shelter. It's twenty minutes before the bus is due, but its arrival times are as fluid as today's pouring rain, and as...
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Autumn Haiku
Daylight disappears Cold nights and warm embraces Hide us until spring
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Retreads
“How long was I dead for ?”, I asked Jason the male nurse as he checked the chart hanging at the end of my metal framed bed. A minute, two minutes, I...
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Jaws
Posted on Mon, 27 Jul 2026
Oh dear, sad and funny at the same time, Why do people do it ? Why did we do it ? And you're absolutely right, the naff disco afterwards is always the worst bit.
"At his cousin Pauline’s wedding the happy couple had had a row and split...
Read full commentPosted in The Way We Heard - All Time Low
RIP Bonnie
Posted on Sun, 02 Aug 2026
How do you know all these things Jay ?
I've just read the lyrics, and I can see it could be about vampires. It's an interesting idea, the only two minutes of daytime a vampire will ever see.
I remember the eclipse too, and...
Read full commentPosted in The Way We Heard: Total Eclipse of the Heart
The love that dares not speak its name
Posted on Wed, 29 Jul 2026
All those poor men forced to live a lie, or risk discrimination, shame and even prison. Your story is a very subtle and well written way of expressing this Jane.
I don't suppose I'm allowed to quote the first two lines of the song, but...
Read full commentPosted in The Way We Heard: What Do You Want (December 1959)
Has Alfred seen the latest
Posted on Wed, 29 Jul 2026
Has Alfred seen the latest World Cup news today ? Private investors will buy into the World Cup money making machine (for such it has become). Footballing countries will be bribed to vote for this. And the whole thing will be managed by a...
Read full commentPosted in The Alfred Muggins' Diaries : June 2026 Part 1 : Trumpy's Search For Peace, and The World Cup
A Stella career
Posted on Fri, 24 Jul 2026
I've just read the background to how he wrote A Well Respected Man as well as the lyrics. A luxury resort in Torquay – maybe he was staying at Fawlty Towers ?
Congratulations on winning the competition ! You really should have...
Read full commentPosted in The Way We Heard - Killing in the Name
Waterloo Sunset
Posted on Fri, 24 Jul 2026
'Jimmy would meet Julie at Waterloo Station just as the sun was setting'.
As opposed to Terry meets Julie ?
Entertaining and drily funny as always.
Read full commentPosted in The Way We Heard - Killing in the Name
Superduck Saves The World
Posted on Wed, 22 Jul 2026
I vote for the series !
Is Gregor related to the Perfectly Normal Ducks by any chance ? I remember them.
Read full commentPosted in Metamorphosis
Spot The Dog
Posted on Tue, 21 Jul 2026
Worse than that never hearing of the Woodetops, Andy Pandy or The Flower Pot Men, Tim hadn't read a single book since he left school apart from a Wilbur Smith novel which someone had given his mother when she was in hospital. This was nothing to...
Read full commentPosted in The Way We Heard: Three Coins In The Fountain (1954) (Pt.2)
You're a natural story teller
Posted on Tue, 21 Jul 2026
You're a natural story teller Jane, it's so easy to slide into this and be right there. I loved your phrase 'if you’re going to kill every man who speaks out of turn to you, you’re going to need your own graveyard'.
Read full commentPosted in The Way We Heard: Three Coins In The Fountain (1954) (Pt.1)
Thank you very much eds !
Posted on Mon, 20 Jul 2026
Thank you very much eds !
I did go home and tell my mum, and she thought it was hilariously funny, and by then I did too. Eventually we calmed down and then she said 'Well I never liked him anyway' and that started us off all over again...
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