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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.
My stories
Ooze Next?
Days and nights in dear old Donegal. Part six of nine, maybe ten, but certainly not eleven.
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Early Lateness
If I could turn back time, I’d write a song about it.
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The Concept of Rain at a Jaunty Angle
The Donegal Dally. The fifth of several parts.
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Singin' in the Buncrana Rain
Whilst dallying in Donegal we wondered how it was going in Inishowen. The fourth of several parts.
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Shillelagh Shopping
Dallying in Donegal and dabbling a bit in Derry. The third of an ever increasing number of parts.
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Carrying the weight
Posted on Sat, 12 Jul 2025
It's often incredible how we take on responsibility simply because nobody else is there to do it. Your poem contains powerful words that make the practical and emotional hardship that you went through really stand out, along with what you missed...
Read full commentPosted in The Daughter-Wife
Michael Wood but I wouldn't.
Posted on Tue, 01 Jul 2025
About twenty years ago my kids and I stayed a night in the village of Blarney. We didn’t go to the castle because we were all quite talkative already. The following morning, we left the guest house just as the sun rose to drive the few kilometres...
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A sad time
Posted on Fri, 27 Jun 2025
I know it's so very hard Jane. to lose a cat. New cats can be had, and they will be lovely little joybringers, but they can never be a replacement for those characters we've loved before.
We try to console ourselves with the thought that a...
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Fonts
Posted on Sun, 22 Jun 2025
Hello WWJA.
From my experience, I'd say you need to get the font size right on your original document before you copy to the ABC site page.
But further, I'm reasonably confident in saying that you could adjust the font size on your...
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Brown bread is brown bread
Posted on Sun, 08 Jun 2025
I'm a death is death kinda guy too. In all my years there has never been any sign that there is anything else. And even if there is a heaven and a hell, they'll be rammed with those 'England's already full' sort of people so they won't let me in...
Read full commentPosted in Dead Man: 4
Sliding away
Posted on Sun, 08 Jun 2025
You've covered many possibilities of what might happen when we peg it, and described them well. It's a ptty we can't choose our afterlife experience from a catalogue. It's like many things in life; I don't care what happens (if anything at all)...
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Sometimes...
Posted on Thu, 29 May 2025
Sometimes we need to weep Caldwell. I'm sure your poem is something for your mother will come to treasure, along with her memories.
Read full commentPosted in What We Remember
Wreckage
Posted on Fri, 16 May 2025
The wreckage of a thousand bad decisions...
Having formerly been a seafarer myself, that's something that often goes through my mind.
The nearest sea to where I live now is the Black Sea. Apparently there are all sorts of...
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Johnson's Finger
Posted on Mon, 14 Apr 2025
It takes a very skilled writer to make me laugh at something that contains the words 'Boris' and 'Johnson'. In fact you've cheered me up immensely as I try to imagine that, despite everything that's going on in the world today, it would all be an...
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Germany
Posted on Mon, 31 Mar 2025
Apart from cherry cake and dirndln, football is probably my favourite thing about Germany. It's just so different to anywhere else I've watched it so I can well imagine the atmosphere at your second tier Hertha game. The last time I was in...
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