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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.
My stories
Crado Come Home
Me and the world around me during the second half of July 2024, in 100 words per day.
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All the President’s Biscuits
Me and the world around me during the first half of July 2024, in 100 words per day.
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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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Scary stuff
Posted on Fri, 25 Apr 2025
Such a shame that a lovely adventure should go so horribly wrong. You did right to run away as it could have gone even more horribly wrong. A story of two extremes, and quite disturbing as we never know what is out there. We live in a scary world...
Read full commentPosted in More Than We Bargained For
Petty cash
Posted on Thu, 17 Apr 2025
The money I gave to Kavinda was approximately one tenth of my weekly wage at the time, so not much at all to me but a fortune to him.
I've written part three but it's too big to fit within the parameters of an ABC post so I've split it and...
Read full commentPosted in Taking Tea - Kavinda and Me
Ships
Posted on Wed, 16 Apr 2025
Thank you very much Jenny.
I think hardship enriches our lives more than riches do, though probably not for Sri Lankans as so many of them have known only hardship.
I worked for the shipping company just short of three years which...
Read full commentPosted in A Black Morris Minor and a Pink Carnation
Wish!
Posted on Mon, 14 Apr 2025
I wish I knew what happens next.
It's nice to see you starting a new story and to be in on it from the beginning. Good luck with it.
Read full commentPosted in "Where to Diner"
Even older than me
Posted on Sat, 12 Apr 2025
It absolutely amazes me how a living organism can survive so long. Imagine the things it has lived through. I wouldn't want to be an oak tree myself though.
Lovely poem Jenny.
Read full commentPosted in Mighty Ancient Oak
Yeats and Villa
Posted on Wed, 09 Apr 2025
Thanks for that Paul. I pick up the Yeats book from time to time but I'd be fibbing if I said I'd read it from cover to cover. Days with absolutely nothing at all to do are perfect for such literary adventures.
On a totally different...
Read full commentPosted in Nihil Impossibile Erit Vobis
A gripping beginning
Posted on Mon, 01 Aug 2022
A gripping end to the first instalment. I feel this is going to be an altogether gripping tale.
Read full commentPosted in "Willow's Missing Tail" 1
Perfidia
Posted on Sun, 06 Apr 2025
I must confess that I've only started reading Willow's Missing Tail quite recently. I'm enjoying the read but a bit lost at times (most times) so I can see that I need to go the very beginning and start from scratch. Don't wait for me though....
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Dirndl
Posted on Thu, 03 Apr 2025
Ta CM. That's my weekend entertainment sorted.
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Walking free
Posted on Thu, 03 Apr 2025
It's nice to think that humans could walk as free as the untamed creatures. It takes a lot of bottle for us to turn our backs on the superficial trappings that deter us from it while for many there is no choice.
Strong words to describe a...
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