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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
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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My Döner and Chide
The surprises that turn up in your pocket of a Thursday morning.
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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.
Read full commentPosted in Sketching
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...
Read full commentPosted in A Victorian Lady's Memoirs Part Four
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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Tropical
Posted on Wed, 21 May 2025
Great writing with a typically tropical taste... and smells. In fact you took me through the whole range of senses, imagining the scene and wishing I was there.
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Treasure
Posted on Fri, 16 May 2025
Well worn old things are always more attractive and interesting to look at than the pristine new stuff, in my opinion. We have three very old trunks that use to store linen. From the outside their appearance suggests treasure but inside there's...
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Pink
Posted on Fri, 16 May 2025
When my partner and I buy plants from a garden centre near to where we live, we ask what colour the flowers will be. The lady proprietor always replies 'mixed' which means that she has no idea. Generally they turn out to be pink.
The next...
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