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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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Candi Staton, the Sea and Me

Memories of my last night before becoming a salty sea dog. It all happened at the Devon public house in the fashionable Cross Gates district of Leeds, round about the end of August 1976.
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Tang Hall Beck

Sunny Saturdays with the sticklebacks and my friend John Lancaster. A memory of York from 1966.
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Eric’s War

A concise history of World War Two as told to me long ago by my dear old friend Eric. Additional material was provided by his lovely wife Peggy.
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My Döner and Chide

The surprises that turn up in your pocket of a Thursday morning.
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Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

We bought a Lamborghini (or maybe a Fiat… it’s definitely Italian).
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752 of my comments have received 794 Great Feedback votes

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Light Showers

Posted on Sun, 23 Mar 2025

Hello Jenny.

Since the destruction caused here by last summer's giant hailstones I'm all for the words of your poem, particularly the let light showers descend more slowly bit.

I'm sorry I didn't read this sooner. I've been...

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Mud

Posted on Mon, 03 Mar 2025

I'm sorry to hear that Di. In such situations the feeling of a loss if dignity is sometimes as hard to take as the pain. But well done the kind man and I'm glad you're feeling better now. And if it was only mud on his posh coat then surely it...

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Good health and life

Posted on Mon, 03 Mar 2025

Zdraveh ee zhivot (здраве и живот, meaning good health and life) is a phrase that Bulgarians use every day Jenny, in a sort of 'all the best' way. So I can see that you're into their way of thinking.

Priyatelka's back is fine now. I've...

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Things you see on a wall

Posted on Sun, 02 Mar 2025

Or leaving the piss, perhaps.

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Ta very much Di.

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Bob

Posted on Sun, 02 Mar 2025

Hello Jenny.

The Bob Dylan film is excellent but I think it might be best appreciated by people who are already fans. Priyatelkata wasn't as thrilled with it as I was. However, a fan will spot a few inaccuracies (aka artistic licence) but...

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Car boot commodities

Posted on Sat, 01 Mar 2025

It is indeed a car boot sale commodity Rhiannon, apparently changing hands at three or four times the price of what it would cost in Asda. The immigrant Marmite runners understandably have to make it worth their while. 

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Flimsy legs

Posted on Fri, 28 Feb 2025

If pond skaters took to drinking whey protein shakes they could become our planet's dominant species. I think it's worth a try.

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And without skates.

Posted on Fri, 28 Feb 2025

And without skates too, which is just as well because they'd struggle to fasten them up.

This is a great poem. And I like your choice of song too.

Nice one Jenny!

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Ras Gombo

Posted on Thu, 27 Feb 2025

Unfortunately I never went to Ras Gombo. I just sailed past it in the night... three times actually during the course of my seafaring days. Those waters around the Horn of Africa are a dangerous place to be now. I doubt if I'd be falling into a...

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Roberta Flack

Posted on Tue, 25 Feb 2025

That's a wonderful song.

Her other huge hit 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face', written by Salford's Ewan MacColl, is a very moving piece to read as poetry even without the music and Roberta's beautiful voice. 

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