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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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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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Happy Christmas From Worksop
Well I wish I could be in Worksop every day.
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La Vie En Nose
This Sort of Thing - a whimsical journal writing undertaking. August 2026 (Part 3 of 3).
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She Had Me In Stitches
This Sort of Thing - a whimsical journal writing undertaking. August 2026 (Part 2 of 3).
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Oh Ambassador You Are Really Scaring Us
This Sort of Thing - a whimsical journal writing undertaking. August 2026 (Part 1 of 3).
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Golden
Posted on Sat, 31 Oct 2026
That's great news Drew. Thank you very much.
I hope you have a grand time tonight with your rituals rooted to the earth and her rhythm.
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Hope
Posted on Sat, 31 Oct 2026
Every word of what you’ve said is true Di. There was always the unfairness of the feudal system but in the name of progress the industrial revolution brought greed and the inevitable widespread suffering, particularly poverty and slavery, that...
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Neighbours
Posted on Thu, 17 Sep 2026
‘You can choose your friends, but you can't choose the oiks that move into the house next door,' as the old saying goes.
And the mention of a Manchester United fan as a neighbour makes me think you should perhaps have posted your story...
Read full commentPosted in Old Walls - Part 1
Hurroo!
Posted on Mon, 14 Sep 2026
Hurroo for the good cells!
Boo to the reverberation!
And three cheers for Jenny!
It’s great to see you back writing poetry Jenny. I get positive reverberations from that.
Good on you. x
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Beetlebum
Posted on Mon, 07 Sep 2026
All the staff in the Dermatology and Venereal Department (DVD) drive a Hyundai Syphilis. It's part of some sort of sponsorship deal. The directors, however, each have a Volkswagen Chlamydia because they're a bit posh.
Meanwhile I've got my...
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Arab Springs
Posted on Fri, 04 Sep 2026
Never buy a bed in Benghazi. Those Arab springs play havoc with your back.
Read full commentPosted in Tobruk, Or Not Tobruk?
Interference
Posted on Fri, 04 Sep 2026
I suspect those things are what most ordinary Middle Eastern people want. Unfortunately they are something that many of them previously had until taken away as a consequence of interference from governments in the so-called developed world.
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I couldn't make it up
Posted on Wed, 02 Sep 2026
I can’t do fiction. With all that reality rattling around in my head I can’t see the point of making stuff up. So I write autobiographically and embellish it to make it more interesting. So then technically it’s no longer autobiographical. But my...
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Nox
Posted on Wed, 02 Sep 2026
It’s great to spend time outside at night. Another world comes to life and you can almost pinpoint the month by the nature of the noises emanating from the nature. Who doesn’t love a tawny owl?
Perhaps you should set traps for the creeping...
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Ornaments
Posted on Mon, 31 Aug 2026
Kat, I’ve got the books, the pictures and the ornaments. And anywhere that there isn’t one of those, there tends to be a cat.
But doesn’t a big pile of books give such a lovely warm feeling? I’ve even got some very old Bulgarian books that...
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