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Terence Mullan
An itchy insect bite on my finger drove me mad all day and restricted my movements. The pinkie position whilst drinking tea from an ornate china teacup was almost impossible.
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The Targovishte Quandary - Part 3 of 3
My dark and disturbing encounter in Eastern Europe – it’s the final countdown!
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The Targovishte Quandary - Part 2 of 3
My dark and disturbing encounter in Eastern Europe continues.
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The Targovishte Quandary - Part 1 of 3
My dark and disturbing encounter in Eastern Europe.
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The Treadmills of My Mind
It’s that ole devil called insomnia again, where I’m entertained by the dark columns of the world’s problem page.
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Patrick Kavanagh and Me
I’ve got to give a bit of credit for the first line of this to the late Mr Patrick Kavanagh of 62 Pembroke Road, Dublin. It’s from his poem Canal Bank Walk , written in 1954.
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Flying
Posted on Tue, 07 May 2024
Many of my dreams are about going back to work at one of the many jobs I've had in my life. Potentially nightmares but they seem to be happier than when I was there in real life.
Priyatelkata has built a website about dreams. She's no real...
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Behind flickering eyelids.
Posted on Tue, 07 May 2024
It's incredible the weird and wonderful places that dreams take us. Sometimes they take me to places I've been to in the past and sometimes they take me to places I've never been but which I've dreamed about in the past.
I wish there was...
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I too am a migrant
Posted on Sat, 04 May 2024
I too am a migrant
They soon let me in
See I have my visa
In the form of white skin
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Trees
Posted on Sun, 28 Apr 2024
The most uplifting bit of human optimism I have ever witnessed was when I was in Madagascar and we visited a forest where baobab trees were growing. They had specimens that had been growing there for more than six hundred years. One tree, they...
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The David Bowie gig you went
Posted on Thu, 02 May 2024
The David Bowie gig you went to must have been amazing. He must have been doing his 'The Man Who Sold the World' sort of stuff which is a wonderful album deserving far more credit than it ever got. I don't know anyone else who ever saw him in...
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A poor tree in poetry
Posted on Sun, 28 Apr 2024
I love trees and I know the upset that losing one can bring. We have a couple of very very old walnut trees which I love but always wonder if they will survive the next storm. If they were human they'd be in a home for the elderly.
So I...
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Brave
Posted on Tue, 23 Apr 2024
We all have to be brave when she's working in the kitchen!
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The soya milk is quite
Posted on Tue, 23 Apr 2024
The soya milk is quite expensive here too so she makes it very cheaply herself from soya beans but it's an awful lot of work. So then after all that faffing with every kitchen implement that we own she then sets about making the yoghurt which is...
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LB
Posted on Tue, 23 Apr 2024
We have labyrinths of crisps and biscuits too Di but our supermarkets don't sell much of the other processed foods that you have over there in the posh end of Europe. Here we don't have prepacked sandwiches, prepared meals, pies and pasties, ...
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Splendid news
Posted on Wed, 24 Apr 2024
I'm very pleased to hear it, partly (but only partly) because I've mislaid the pencil sharpener.
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