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Terence Mullan
Down the years I have lived in many places and I have done many jobs. Now I live in Bulgaria and the only work I do is tending to my lovely garden when the sun is shining and scribbling away in my big book of writing stuff when it is not.
I may have left it too late in life to become a famous writer or celebrated gardener but I will persevere anyway. These are the things that occupy me in a seemingly effortless and satisfying way.
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Miss Australia 1978 – Part One of Four
If we were allowed to make up our own birth signs I reckon I’d probably go for Hermes (not herpes) because in Greek mythology, he was the god of...
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The Bratislava Pálava - Part Two of Two
If you missed The Bratislava Pálava - Part One, here's a link https://www.abctales.com/story/turlough/bratislava-p%C3%A1lava-part-one-two But if you...
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The Bratislava Pálava - Part One of Two
Have you ever gone away on your holidays and bumped into a foreign head of state? I’d often dreamt of sitting next to Joe Biden on a pensioners’ day...
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The Jammy Tax Dodger
When I’m settling up for what I owe when leaving a restaurant, disembarking from a taxi, admiring my newly coiffured curls in the mirror at Stanislav...
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A Viennese Whirl
A Viennese Whirl What a disappointment! We spent three whole days in this beautiful historic city but at no point did anybody offer us a Viennese...
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Your words sum up the
Posted on Sun, 26 Nov 2023
Your words sum up the grimness of this time of year. especially the monochrome landscape line.
A nicely written poem that I enjoyed in a grim sort of way.
Read full commentPosted in A Murder of Crows (Transcendence)
Oh to be a cat. They always
Posted on Sat, 25 Nov 2023
Oh to be a cat. They always have a multitude of favourite places in which to languish in sleepy comfort and regularly in places where they're not supposed to be.
We can't make plans for cats. Your poem captures this well.
Read full commentPosted in A place for a snooze
But Israel's neighbours plus
Posted on Tue, 21 Nov 2023
But Israel's neighbours plus the USA plus the European Union plus Britain have too much money tied up in Israel to go upsetting them. None of them are worried about investments they have made in Palestine because their aren't any, or if there are...
Read full commentPosted in Hamas’ Own Masada! By rogue reporter Alfred N.Muggins
National leaders and
Posted on Tue, 21 Nov 2023
National leaders and governments throughout the world and throughout history can all be graded by their different levels of madness and greed for money and territory. Thoughts of human suffering come second place when rich men strive to become...
Read full commentPosted in Hamas’ Own Masada! By rogue reporter Alfred N.Muggins
A good read Mono.
Posted on Mon, 20 Nov 2023
A good read Mono.
I've got the Dubliners' song The Zoological Gardens stuck in my head now.
Read full commentPosted in May 4th (chapter 5 part 2)
Sun protection in Dublin?
Posted on Mon, 20 Nov 2023
Sun protection in Dublin? That's more of a fantasy than anything you'd find in a Harry Potter book.
Read full commentPosted in May 4th (chapter 5 part 1)
No matter what we think of
Posted on Mon, 20 Nov 2023
No matter what we think of ourselves it's often good to make the occasional adjustment.
With the words of your poem you've really hit the nail on the head, if you'll pardon the pun.
Read full commentPosted in Song of Myself
The dictionary definition of
Posted on Mon, 20 Nov 2023
The dictionary definition of armistice is something along the lines of an agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting.
I'm writing this for the Armistice Day people, lest they forget.
Read full commentPosted in Does Suella Braverman know what a Democracy is, and how it works, or should work?
Oh Paul, as usual your
Posted on Tue, 21 Nov 2023
Oh Paul, as usual your wonderfully descriptive use of words brings the scene to life but there's so much sadness in there. I really feel for you.
This must have been very difficult to write and I admire you for sharing it. Your positive...
Read full commentPosted in Those We Leave Behind
It's wonderful how you have
Posted on Mon, 20 Nov 2023
It's wonderful how you have written so many interesting facts about the fruit fly and its brain into a poem.
From now on, whenever I look at a fruit fly I'm sure I'll feel inadequate.
It's educational and enjoyable Rhiannon.
Read full commentPosted in What's going on inside?
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