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Terence Mullan
The toothless old widow who sits beneath the pomegranate tree in the square confided in me, ‘Snow and ice in April will hurt the tender shoots of our hostas but they’ll return even stronger under the Balkan sunshine’s healing rays.’ The old man sitting beside her with a cigarette lodged neatly in one of the gaps in his front teeth casually added, ‘Hosta la vista, baby!’
My stories
This Sort of Thing - May 2024 - Up to the Oche
Words of nuance, words of skill. Words when Leeds have lost four-nil.
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The Spice of Life
The musings of an elderly observer of what can be seen in other people’s shopping trolleys.
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Bill or Bob?
If William Shakespeare and Bob Marley had a fight, who do you think would win? There’s only one way to find out…
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This Sort of Thing - The Childhood Stage
From a Smoggie to a Culchie, a ten year journey.
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This Sort of Thing - April 2024 - The Sporophyte Stage
Eat your words but don't go hungry. Words can make you grow rotundly.
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Yews and pews
Posted on Fri, 27 Dec 2024
a scarlet dawn beckons
Those words can mean so much at this time of year.
Nice one Paul. I hope the festivities in your house were all you had hoped they would be, and more.
Read full commentPosted in Carols at Midnight
Acme or acne?
Posted on Sat, 21 Dec 2024
Thanks Di and sorry for taking so long to respond to your comment.
I too have sometimes thought about how lucky I was that there were no taxis waiting for me on that occasion. There have been significantly more times in my life where a...
Read full commentPosted in The Day of the Drone - Luton to the Rescue
A piece of cake
Posted on Sat, 21 Dec 2024
In the summertime, with my own car to Sofia and the tram from Manchester airport to my daughter's house, the journey's a piece of cake. It's when someone puts icing on the cake that the problems kick in.
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Guiding light
Posted on Fri, 15 Mar 2024
This made me smile. I regret not having read it when you posted it back in ages ago.
I've been invited to read some of my stuff at a poetry night in February. I've been to one of these sessions before but didn't participate as I was just...
Read full commentPosted in More n'24
Dilation of de nation
Posted on Sun, 15 Dec 2024
I can't understand why David Attenborough has never taken his film crew to the Tommy Wass on Dewsbury Road. A pub famed for its great range of pupil dilation.
Keep well Jenny!
Read full commentPosted in The Bower Flame Bird
Our Bowerbird
Posted on Sun, 15 Dec 2024
That's incredible Jenny. Thanks for sharing.
The video clip reminds me of a pub I used to frequent in Leeds.
I love your accompanying poem too. The words offer a great description of the bird and its habits.
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Clocks
Posted on Tue, 10 Dec 2024
But my birthday's always the week after the clocks have changed. It's the worst possible time of the year. I don't feel like celebrating anything until they've been changed back again in March; that vernal clock change day in itself being a...
Read full commentPosted in A Tale of Two Balkan Cities
Birthday legalities
Posted on Tue, 10 Dec 2024
If all that changing your birthday to a different date malarkey was legal, I would choose to have mine on a summer's day. I think I'd like to be celebrating on the birthday of William Butler Yeats, which is 13th June, though he was born a...
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Goran Bregovic
Posted on Sun, 08 Dec 2024
Thanks for reading, Jenny, and for your greatly appreciated comment.
I'm glad you liked the music too. Goran Bregovic is a legend in Eastern Europe and I've been to see him perform live many times. For me he's been a gateway to the...
Read full commentPosted in The Meeting of the Waters
Meteorological bits
Posted on Sat, 07 Dec 2024
Storms stir up all sorts of emotions Jenny and I love the way your words have shown how you can make the most of them. I used to love them. Each with their own individual characteristics and always exciting to watch. I'm sorry to bang on about...
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