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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.
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Introducing Turlough Ó Maoláin, Performance Poet
My April, the second of two parts, and restricted to 100 words per day because less is more, and I am the Ludwig Mies van der Rohe of village gossip.
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The Fish on the Hill
My April, the first of two parts, and restricted to 100 words per day so that I can’t be accused of banging on about it.
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When Life Gives You Flags
Part Four of the Flour of Sri Lanka series. Kavinda’s proudest moment.
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Rupees Appease
Part Three of the Flour of Sri Lanka series. Kavinda counts his cash.
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Taking Tea - Kavinda and Me
Part Two of the Flour of Sri Lanka series. Will you take tea, dear friend? Ceylon or Dundee?
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Good idea!
Posted on Thu, 19 Mar 2026
Good idea!
And part four is approaching completion.
Read full commentPosted in Penny's Pass the Parcel Part 3
Of course!
Posted on Sat, 07 Mar 2026
Well isn't that lot just exactly what I wear all the time?
Read full commentPosted in Teeth Tales - The Miser’s Guide to Molars
This is such an honour.
Posted on Sat, 07 Mar 2026
Oh, I don’t know where to start. This is such an honour. I’d like to thank my mother and the milkman, my agent, my homeopath, my acupuncturist, the Dagenham Girl Pipers, Johnny Ten Levs, the team at Mucky Monika’s Massage Parlour, and last but...
Read full commentPosted in Teeth Tales - The Miser’s Guide to Molars
Shame
Posted on Sat, 14 Mar 2026
Knowing what to say, either way, is very difficult and explaining exactly what is expected or not expected from a simple meet up for a drink can take the shine off the circumstances that have led up to it. It's a huge shame that we have this...
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Cheeky, or not cheeky
Posted on Sat, 14 Mar 2026
There are different levels to this, in my opinion. At the bottom there's the dark threatening expectation of something intimate happening and at the top there's the cheeky innuendo.
Cheeky innuendo makes the world go round. When I was...
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Toothy
Posted on Sat, 07 Mar 2026
Fangs for that Jenny.
Read full commentPosted in Teeth Tales - The Miser’s Guide to Molars
The B52s
Posted on Sat, 07 Mar 2026
My kids and I were out in the car one day that must have been in 1999 and we went past Fairford. On the runway there were about a dozen B52 bombers revving up their engines in readiness for taking off to bomb Belgrade (they have a new target...
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Chippenham
Posted on Sat, 07 Mar 2026
We were living in Chippenham, a place where these things happen. We still talk about the noises made by the little girl who lived in our house when it had been a mill.
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Therapy
Posted on Sat, 07 Mar 2026
Aye, the whole family is.
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Tory Backbenchers
Posted on Fri, 06 Mar 2026
There’s only a thin line between a West Ham and a Millwall supporter. West Ham are renowned for being a family club, which means that even the granny is a racist thug. Allegedly!
I’ve been thinking about teeth. I’ll think some more and do...
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