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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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Violetta Are You Better?
If Stevie Wonder had lived in Bulgaria, he’d have realised that there’s nothing hotter than July. Here’s one hundred words per day to describe the first sixteen days of a very sticky month.
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While My Guitar Teacher Gently Weeps
Words of apology to anyone who has ever tried to teach me to play a musical instrument.
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There’s a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He’s Engels
Dyado Petr, Baba Stefka and Todor Zhivkov are/were real people, the earthquake and appointment of a new head of state really did happen, and the places I’ve mentioned really do exist, but much of the rest of this tale is a fig leaf of my imagination. However, it describes an event that could have taken place in my part of Bulgaria seventy years ago. Superstition is so strong and diverse here that it’s possible to make it up and get away with it. Maybe I did make it up and maybe I didn’t.
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The Fox and the Elm Tree
For Julia and Robert. And for Coral and Sarah.
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If I Were a Fish
June is busting out all over… from day sixteen to the end of the month, each described in 100 words.
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Cows
Posted on Mon, 17 Aug 2026
I didn't know that the good people of Waterford were in the habit of lining up their cows, but I do now, so thank you.
Next time I'm over I'll go and have a look.
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Shearer
Posted on Sat, 15 Aug 2026
Nay lad, a proper sheep shearer! The townsfolk of Heckmondwike wouldn't gi t'time o'day to that poncy Geordie twerp.
And the photograph is nowt in comparison to what, from my experience, you might find yourself dancing with in a Newcastle...
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Independence
Posted on Sat, 15 Aug 2026
I think anyone of our generation with half a brain would keep their finances separate, just in case. It's still possible to have a friendship or relationship without dipping into each other's property and cash. Both should recognise the need to...
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Dear Marge
Posted on Sat, 15 Aug 2026
Keep your hand on your ha'penny! That's what the wise old ones say to the lovestruck young.
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The Dusty Danube
Posted on Fri, 14 Aug 2026
Oooh, interesting! I hadn’t heard about this bit of the drought calamity. There’s something very alluring about the Danube, though here it’s called the Dunav which is a name that I think makes it even more alluring. It’s huge and powerful but...
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Micklefield or bust!
Posted on Fri, 14 Aug 2026
Oh, I remember Micklefield. Well I only remember it as being the stop after Garforth but at least I remember it.
We don’t have Ubers in Bulgaria. The government banned them years ago because of tax evasion, money laundering and corruption...
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Amniotic Pollution
Posted on Fri, 14 Aug 2026
Oh, righto Makis. Thank you for that. I'll go and put it right.
Don't tell anybody but I was lying when I said I heard those news items on the radio in 1957. The truth is that I Googled them a couple of nights ago.
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Michael Fish
Posted on Fri, 14 Aug 2026
Thanks Airy. When I was born WTF hadn’t been invented, so I was probably just somewhere on the cusp between startled and terrified. In some respects I still am.
And here we’ve more or less given up watering. The ground is so hard and dry...
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Wonder
Posted on Fri, 14 Aug 2026
I wonder too. I’m always on the edge of my seat on a Friday afternoon. It’s like waiting for the FA Cup draw.
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You could hear the hoof beats pound...
Posted on Fri, 14 Aug 2026
I loved Madness in those days. I went to see them loads of times. Those gigs really were madness.
From memory I can recite every single word of Ernie the Fastest Milkman in the West. It's such a shame that they never have it on karaoke...
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