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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!’

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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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711 of my comments have received 745 Great Feedback votes

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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.

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Posted in Carols at Midnight

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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...

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Posted in The Day of the Drone - Luton to the Rescue

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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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Posted in The Day of the Drone - Luton to the Rescue

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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...

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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!

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Posted in The Bower Flame Bird

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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...

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Posted in A Tale of Two Balkan Cities

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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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Posted in A Tale of Two Balkan Cities

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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...

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Posted in The Meeting of the Waters

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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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Posted in Stormy Night Of Passion

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