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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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Ex Crete
More whimsy, this time from the second half of September 2024, at the rate of 100 words per day.
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The Old Man and the Libyan Sea
A whimsical look at my involvement in the world during the first half of September 2024, at the rate of 100 words per day.
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Don't Mess with a Meteorology Man
What I did during the second half of August 2024, at the rate of 100 words per day.
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For the Love of Irma Ogden
What I did during the first half of August 2024, at the rate of 100 words per day.
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No Country for Cold Men
Made in the shade of our covered terrace late in the afternoon on one of those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer.
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Toes... then and now
Posted on Thu, 29 May 2025
Thank you very much Jessiibear. They're the same toes now but sixty years older. They seem much different, but toes have memories.
Read full commentPosted in Tan Remembered Toes
Well done Samson!
Posted on Fri, 30 May 2025
A megalithic dolmen. I've been visiting these places in Ireland all my life and they never fail to mystify me as I try to imagine the human activity that led to their being there. They're always in peaceful and beautiful settings where a good old...
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Peat Bog Feet
Posted on Thu, 29 May 2025
Thanks Di, it's reassuring to know that my feet resemble those of thousands of years old peat bog men. Perhaps I should change my socks more often.
I'd imagine that the water in the rivers and streams where you live is peaty and brown too...
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I'm no expert, but...
Posted on Thu, 29 May 2025
I'm no expert at this but I just write all my stuff in Word documents ensuring that the formatting is constant throughout. Then, after saving them, I copy and paste onto a blank page on the ABC site. It seems to work.
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The women!
Posted on Fri, 23 May 2025
Where I live now, the dark days of Communism pushed women out to work and the feeling of importance and value to the community has stayed with them long after the fall of the regime. Many businesses here are run by women and in many walks of life...
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Pint
Posted on Thu, 22 May 2025
Now if I'd been arriving so far ahead of schedule I'd have sent a text message to let the people know, or just gone for a pint to while away the time until I was expected.
How times change.
Read full commentPosted in A Victorian Lady's Memoirs Part Three
Llandoger Trow
Posted on Thu, 22 May 2025
When I worked in an office near Bristol Bridge I would often go to the Llandoger Trow. It was a brilliant old pub with some great literary connections. Apparently it inspired Robert Louis Stevenson to write about the Admiral Benbow Inn in ...
Read full commentPosted in A Victorian Lady's Memoirs Part Two
The poor and needy
Posted on Thu, 22 May 2025
I vaguely remember you mentioning hanging round the docks in some of your previous writing. Maybe a specialist subject!? But seriously, well done to you for bringing that sordid side of nineteenth century England to life in your story.
Read full commentPosted in A Victorian Lady's Memoirs Part Two
Sea life
Posted on Tue, 20 May 2025
his motto being; what happens at sea, stays at sea.
And a fine motto that is. As a former seafarer myself, perhaps I should adopt the same.
Read full commentPosted in A Victorian Lady's Memoirs Part One
A good start
Posted on Mon, 19 May 2025
Oooh Jenny, you've written loads of instalments and I'm only starting to read them now. Apologies for that. However, if they're all as well written as this one it'll take me no time at all to catch up.
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