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Terence Mullan
An itchy insect bite on my finger drove me mad all day and restricted my movements. The pinkie position whilst drinking tea from an ornate china teacup was almost impossible.
My stories
The Vigorous Fig
But how did you get there? That’s got me perplexed. Oh the wonders of nature, and whatever next?
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Mucky Maureen
A fine poet once wrote… Sometimes we’d go to the Derrisford caff For a bottle of Coke and a bit of a laugh. We’d waste so many afternoons In the...
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Rediscovering Holes
This is a poem I wrote some time ago. Fifty-two years ago to be more precise. I rediscovered it the other day whilst searching in the loft for my...
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Rakia Maria – Part Two of Two
So I said to Priyatelkata ‘Isn’t it lovely?’ and she replied ‘Yes! It’s very lovely.’ Maria added, ‘Life and health!’ in Bulgarian, of course. What...
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Rakia Maria - Part One of Two
I love the month of March in Bulgaria. It heralds the beginning of a four-month long explosion of nature straight off the back of the iciest winters...
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The quizzical look...
Posted on Sat, 17 Feb 2024
The ghosts won't go away, but thankfully neither will the face in the photograph. It never could.
I can see that quizzical look on her face. I've seen it many times.
And I can see the need for the dreamtime gun.
A deeply...
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Thanks very much for your
Posted on Thu, 15 Feb 2024
Thanks very much for your kind words Penny4AT.
I hope the paper from your factory tasted better than our crisps.
Read full commentPosted in Cheese and Onion Tuesday
Now I understand why shopping
Posted on Wed, 14 Feb 2024
Now I understand why shopping takes so long.
I can really imagine this conversation taking place.
Certainly a poem to bring out the smiles.
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I try to do this not waking
Posted on Tue, 13 Feb 2024
I try to do this not waking up thing myself, Rhiannon, but I'm always met on the landing by an infestation of cats that all want to dive in to drink running water from the tap in the bathroom washbasin. To me it seems I waste my time.
The...
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Gypsies
Posted on Mon, 05 Feb 2024
Ah now, my heart’s full of special music.
I’ve dozens of favourites and if I listed them all you’d get bored but top of the tree is David Bowie.
I was brought up on Irish music (Dubliners, Clancy Brothers, Planxty, Josef Locke) and...
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My parents would drag me and
Posted on Sun, 11 Feb 2024
My parents would drag me and my sister to Crazy Prices in Coleraine every Fiday evening in the late 1960s. I didn't like going but watching the sparks fly from the fingers of the check-out woman as she tapped in the prices on the buttons on the...
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Her mind a circus in a
Posted on Wed, 07 Feb 2024
Her mind a circus in a fishbowl
That's a brilliant line.
Every time, the whole situation is one of mental torture for the poor elderly person and for the family but struggling on without the care home is even harder....
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Poor, poor tadpoles.
Posted on Thu, 08 Feb 2024
We avoid using the car as much as possible and recycle practically everything. Even our cats are secondhand. There's not much more that we can do to save the planet except to sit at home and be depressed about it.
I didn't know about the...
Read full commentPosted in This Sort of Thing - January 2024 - Main Course
Thanks very much airyfairy.
Posted on Thu, 08 Feb 2024
Thanks very much airyfairy.
My 100 words a day thing keeps my brain ticking over. It's a bit like a sodoku in words rather than numbers. So even if nobody reads it, it's worth having a crack at.
Read full commentPosted in This Sort of Thing - January 2024 - Main Course
When I read your comment, Di,
Posted on Thu, 08 Feb 2024
When I read your comment, Di, I thought your cat had been complaining about chalkdust. We have dust but it's nothing to do with chalk.
Our weather is unbelievably warm at the moment which is not typical. Our winters are much milder than...
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