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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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Fathoms Above
Oh I do like to be beneath the seaside.
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Shenanigans with Catkins
January 2025 (the latter part) and the things that I saw and did in my usual one hundred words per day sort of way.
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The Mandarin Cherries
January 2025 (the early part) and the things that I saw and did in my usual one hundred words per day sort of way.
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Eleven Thousand Silent Playmates
When an old song revives a memory that uncovers an astonishing secret. You might call this a sequel, or even a prequel, to Making Do with Dusty Springfield.
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Making Do with Dusty Springfield
Remembering Patricia, a young Middlesbrough girl with great dreams. I hope her best ones came true.
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She casts spells
Posted on Thu, 07 Aug 2025
That's quite a story Jenny. It's great to think how your imagination must have been running wild and how you managed to write it all down.
I loved the lines
said to me: “she casts spells and is
crazy – think I've...
Read full commentPosted in Woodsman And The Medicine Woman.
Towers
Posted on Thu, 07 Aug 2025
Many hundreds of humans in a vertical stack
is a wonderful way to describe those towers that surrounded me during the days of my youth too. And those comprehensive schools for the honour of which the kids who attended them would...
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Yay!
Posted on Tue, 05 Aug 2025
Yay! Nice one Di,
Read full commentPosted in before Floris
Salty
Posted on Wed, 06 Aug 2025
Until the lunchbox appeared you were edging towards blues singer Robert Johnson's meeting at the Crossroads.
But what first caught my eye was
A down-and-out salty sea dog
which made me wonder if you were writing...
Read full commentPosted in The Last Temptation of Kieran Murphy
My thoughts
Posted on Tue, 05 Aug 2025
Your poetic description of the beautiful nature around you at this time of year and the situation in Palestine are each at opposite ends of the spectrum of what's exists daily n my mind Di. It increases the need for we in safer countries to...
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A Year in Pavlikeni
Posted on Mon, 04 Aug 2025
Unfortunately they don't sell Leeds United strips for cats here, and she wouldn't be seen dead in a Locomotiv Gorna Oryahovitsa shirt, so there might be a bit of a wait for the photographs. Meanwhile we're in talks with the vet for a tattoo....
Read full commentPosted in Violetta Are You Better?
Them ol' school recorder lessons blues
Posted on Thu, 31 Jul 2025
Walt was (and is) a great bloke, as was (and is) his brother and their two families. My head is still full of their little sayings and jokes that enriched my teenage years. And Sheila, who is no longer with us, couldn't have been a better mother-...
Read full commentPosted in While My Guitar Teacher Gently Weeps
Great words
Posted on Thu, 31 Jul 2025
But possibly not tea!
Great words you've got there Tan.
Read full commentPosted in On making love
Come back Bert Weedon. We need you!
Posted on Thu, 31 Jul 2025
I agree entirely Jenny. Making music, like brain surgery and flying airlines, should always be left to the experts because in the wrong hands it can do a lot of harm. We only have to listen to the Bay City Rollers to see that this is true....
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Robotic voices
Posted on Wed, 30 Jul 2025
I recently went to see an Elvis Presley tribute act. I had to buy the tickets over the phone using a similar automated booking system to the one you have described.
The robotic voice at the other end of the line said, 'Well it's one for...
Read full commentPosted in Machine.
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