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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.
My stories
Elisabeth and the Bonbon Girls
Elisabeth and the Bonbon Girls Alone, I walked along the dusty path that led away from the termite-ravaged back gate of the small French colonial-...
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Maglic Moments
A piece of writing I did a good while back for the travel company, Exodus Travels. Neither the trip nor I were very glossy but they were very happy to include it in their glossy promotional literature. The Green Visions Travel Agency in Sarajevo used it too. And no, there isn’t a typo in the title.
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Lady Danube
A photograph of a green wooden hut beside a river. But the river is none other than the River Danube (known locally as the Dunav / Дунав) taken on my phone a few days ago from near the town of Svishtov in Bulgaria, approximately 80 kms from where I live. I love watching rivers flow by but the might of the Danube (the second longest in Europe, after the Don) is extraordinary. Its beauty and the folklore and mythology that accompany it compelled me to write this poem.
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Poking James MacGuigan’s Pig
There have been many doors in my life, some real and some metaphorical, but on a quiet little farm in one of Ireland's beautiful Glens of Antrim, one in particular stood out and the memory of it will stay with me forever.
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I Fought the Law
Apart from having a wee behind a bin down a back alley in Middlesbrough when I was eight years old and a tiny bit of embezzlement around six years...
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I feel sad for this poor
Posted on Wed, 15 Nov 2023
I feel sad for this poor family now.
We have a seven-strong feline death squad that deals with our rodent population. So we never see the little visitors, dead or alive.
Read full commentPosted in The after Party
Islands
Posted on Sun, 12 Nov 2023
I've often wondered but my guesswork suggests that you're living on a Scottish island. I've visited a few and they've all been gorgeous and overwhelmingly friendly. I expect yours is the same. Jura was probably my favourite.
But your son's...
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Nice one Mono!
Posted on Sun, 12 Nov 2023
Nice one Mono!
I'm delighted that you got the golden cherries. I hope you'll be saying thank you to your little ratty friends.
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Is this the real life?
Posted on Sun, 12 Nov 2023
It's amazing when I sit down and think about it, how real life events rhyme. If Russia had invaded Iraq in the 1980s instead of Afghanistan my poem would have been ruined.
Thank you very much Di for reading my writing and for your nice...
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You express so many emotions
Posted on Sun, 12 Nov 2023
You express so many emotions in this Mono... sadness, bitterness, resent, humour... and I like your rhyming. Good on you for sharing your feelings in this way.
I was in Kerry myself a few weeks ago, near Glenbeigh. Under the right...
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An apocalypse will come. They
Posted on Sun, 12 Nov 2023
An apocalypse will come. They've been before. The planet survived, by the skin of its teeth, and regenerated. It would probably be much better off without its current dominant species.
In the meantime we all need to be regarded as...
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Harry Potter AND cheeky
Posted on Sat, 11 Nov 2023
Harry Potter AND cheeky bedroom shenanigans in the same story! The nuns'll be after you.
Entertaining stuff. You've got me wondering what'll happen next. I'm just back from a holiday so I'm playing catch up.
Read full commentPosted in May 4th (chapter 3 part 1)
Aaaarrrrgggghhhhh!
Posted on Sun, 12 Nov 2023
Aaaarrrrgggghhhhh!
You have my sympathy.
One of our cats brought a squirrel into the house this morning for its breakfast. If he'd asked I'd have given him a Kinder Bueno. We would have avoided so much mess, so much pain and so...
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Nice one Niamh!
Posted on Sun, 12 Nov 2023
Nice one Niamh!
I've noticed that they like pipe insulation material almost as much as they enjoy a Kinder Bueno.
That's a great story and very amusing, but I'm trying not to think that it really happened.
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My memories work that way too
Posted on Sun, 12 Nov 2023
My memories work that way too Jacques. The things listed in the poem aren't in the written diaries (which for many of my years just don't exist) but they are in the mental diary that seems to expand by a ream or two every week.
I'm glad...
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