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Terence Mullan
I shaved my head again today. I shave it every couple of months to disguise the fact that I’m going bald.
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Crazy Scenes at Club Hypnagogo
This Sort of Thing - a whimsical journal writing undertaking. September 2026 (Part 2 of 2).
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All the President’s Haemorrhoids
This Sort of Thing - a whimsical journal writing undertaking. September 2026 (Part 1 of 2).
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Tellurian Balancing Act
The nights have been longer than the days for a week now and I still haven’t got the hang of it. Sometimes I wonder is it me or the planet that’s unbalanced? Perhaps we’re both to blame.
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A Late Summer Afternoon’s Hypnagogia
I’ll have a cup of ayahuasca tea and tell you of my dreaming.
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On Simeon’s Day
Bulgarian folklore tells that storks live in human form at the other end of the Earth, but the women cannot give birth to children there. So they all come to our world in spring in the shape of storks to make their babies. They then return to their world on 1 September, which is known as the day of Simeon the Ploughman and is the traditional beginning of autumn.
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Verse Nine (for Jenny)
Posted on Sat, 27 Dec 2025
A poet plagued by Yuletide snot
Amidst great mounds of Kleenex grot
Observed proceedings from her cot
As soldiers danced with swords in kilts
To send some cheer to Swindon, Wilts
Read full commentPosted in Fête de Noël de Madame Priyatelkata
Horror
Posted on Sat, 05 Sep 2026
Reviving so many living nightmares, it wasn't easy to write. I almost ticked horror on the list of genres when I was posting it.
Thank you for the cherries.
Read full commentPosted in Letters on the Mat
Tenuous? Moi?
Posted on Sat, 15 Aug 2026
Tenuous indeed, but deliberately so because our eclipse over here was a bit pathetic.
The picture is of a kuker. Kukeri are elaborately costumed participants in an ancient Bulgarian pagan ritual designed to scare away evil spirits, bring...
Read full commentPosted in Hairy Bob from Heckmondwike
Hello Jenny.
Posted on Sat, 18 Apr 2026
Hello Jenny.
I really feel for you with the dilemma you’re faced with. I can understand how distressing the illness itself must be for you but the warnings that come with the tests obviously make things even worse.
However, I’m...
Read full commentPosted in Tomography
Our Man in Mornington Heights
Posted on Sat, 28 Mar 2026
Splendid stuff Paul. The plot is thickening like a good broth.
I'm itching to know what happens next and how the story finishes.
I think the butler did it.
Read full commentPosted in Penny’s Pass the Story Part 6
Hot wash
Posted on Sun, 15 Mar 2026
Years ago, my teenage daughter did the same with her precious iPod (not iPad). It was destroyed and she was devastated. So for her eighteenth birthday I bought her a new one. By purchasing it direct from the Apple website I was able to get a free...
Read full commentPosted in (Teeth Tales) Smiling Underpants
Israel
Posted on Wed, 02 Jul 2025
I agree with you entirely Ed.
We are constantly being brainwashed by the media. It seems that a huge chunk of the population of the so-called 'developed world' agree with the governments that support Netanyahoo but they do so simply out of...
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Fireflies and frogs
Posted on Sat, 21 Sep 2024
A couple of times in our garden, after a summer evening rainshower, I've seen small frogs that have swallowed fireflies. I only know this because I've seen the dull flashing from inside their throats.
This is a lovely poem Jenny. I really...
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Bernard Manning
Posted on Tue, 09 Jul 2024
The former existence of Bernard Manning pours doubt on the possibility that there has ever been a supreme being that's made us in their image.
Read full commentPosted in Imperfect Beauty
Kind words, Di. Thank you.
Posted on Fri, 21 Jul 2023
Kind words, Di. Thank you.
If it helps you keep the giggling under control I'll read something about my involvement with the bubonic plague on 12 August.
Read full commentPosted in Our Man in Golubac
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