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Terence Mullan
The toothless old widow who sits beneath the pomegranate tree in the square confided in me, ‘Snow and ice in April will hurt the tender shoots of our hostas but they’ll return even stronger under the Balkan sunshine’s healing rays.’ The old man sitting beside her with a cigarette lodged neatly in one of the gaps in his front teeth casually added, ‘Hosta la vista, baby!’
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The Iran - Tie Rack War
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Five.
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Only Here for The Poets
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Four.
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Lovely Palace, Must Fly
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Three.
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A Fistful of Rials
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Two.
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Ticket to Tehran
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part One.
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Ticket trouble
Posted on Fri, 19 Jul 2024
Back in the day the perfomers would employ their own people to distribute and sell their tickets but now they keep their overheads down by washing their hands of the responsibility and handing it over to an agency. Inflated prices and unrealistic...
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Wealthy mates
Posted on Fri, 19 Jul 2024
Aww, have a heart! I'm sure the people at the ticket agency were only trying to fit in with their mates at all the other big organisations that have shown total disrespect for their customers in order to accumulate vulgar amounts of wealth.
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The Mad Monk
Posted on Thu, 18 Jul 2024
It would be terrible of me to take any credit for the words of the poem about the Mad Monk.
I offer my sincere apologies to Alfred and to any reader who feels they might have been misled.
Clicking on the link will reveal the...
Read full commentPosted in Pearly Gates : A Tour of Russia’s Hell by Alfred N.Muggins Part 3
Euro 28
Posted on Thu, 18 Jul 2024
I'm quietly confident that the final of the Euro 28 tournament will be Malta vs Bulgaria.
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Take Splat!
Posted on Thu, 18 Jul 2024
I'm already on it CM. Living in Bulgaria insects, arachnids, isopods and arthropods have become my speciality. I may have even caught crabs from time to time.
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Glaswegians Chapter 3 Verse 8
Posted on Thu, 18 Jul 2024
Mmmmh, now that's a good point IPFN. I lived in Glasgow for a large chunk of 1978 and I don't remember seeing a wasp. There were, however, a great number of people turning wine into water.
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That's disappointment!
Posted on Thu, 18 Jul 2024
We (Bulgaria) didn't qualify but twelve of our East European neighbours did. That's an unprecedented 50% of the line up for the tournament's finals in Germany. I was convinced that at least one of them would do well. Golden old boy Luka Modrić in...
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Rasputin
Posted on Thu, 18 Jul 2024
Archaic verse from the East tells us this...
There lived a certain man in Russia long ago. He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow. Most people looked at him with terror and with fear but to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely...
Read full commentPosted in Pearly Gates : A Tour of Russia’s Hell by Alfred N.Muggins Part 3
From the depths of a coffee cup
Posted on Fri, 19 Jul 2024
Scenes from the depths of a coffee cup. It's incredible how a world, or even a universe, can be encapsulated in such a still and silent space.
Your words have made me think back to times when I have looked at clouds, waves, trees, cobwebs...
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Oh for a breakfast roll!
Posted on Fri, 12 Jul 2024
I found a lot of smiles in this Sean.
Isn't Assumpta a great name? I remember Sister Assumpta at my primary school being a bit less shouty than some of the other nuns.
And I hope your retailers never have to do business with the...
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