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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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Hot Cross Buns and Fish and Chips
It’s that one hundred words thing again, covering the second half of March when I was mostly in England.
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Johnny Ten Levs vs Jack Daniels
It’s that one hundred words thing again, covering the first half of March when I was mostly in Bulgaria.
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Streets of Stoke Newington
Possibly the most tenuous link ever to a weekly inspirational point (this week it’s toast) and a fond recollection of happy times in the mid-1980s living with ‘her indoors’ in a North London oasis of social harmony.
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The Archers in Cyrillic Script
The events of February 2025 (the second part) in my neck of the area of land, smaller than a forest, that is covered with growing trees, described using my usual one hundred words per day method.
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Please Tell Him That I Said Hello
The events of February 2025 (the first part) in my neck of the copse, described using my usual one hundred words per day method.
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Spider monitor
Posted on Sun, 01 Feb 2026
Ayup Kat.
I’d never heard of the Rorschach Inkblot Test until you brought it to light but I do remember doing the same sort of thing with poster paint in art lessons at school. Every single specimen came out as an enormously magnified ant’...
Read full commentPosted in I’ve Got a Gal in Tiramisu
Stars
Posted on Sat, 31 Jan 2026
While the world goes spinning all over the place we have our own axis and it's good that we stick to it.
And this line is a great line...
In your garden, the fruit trees bloom with stars.
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Life on Mars
Posted on Thu, 29 Jan 2026
Perhaps Kandy in Sri Lanka or Sugar Loaf Mountain in Brazil would be a good place to start. Or even Bakewell where the tarts come from. And if all else fails you could start a new life on Mars.
I enjoyed your alternative approach to...
Read full commentPosted in Chewy and Exhausting
Shame
Posted on Sun, 18 Jan 2026
Kat, there’ll have been enormous pressure on them from their families because at that time they’ll have been considered to be the cause of overwhelming shame on the entire family and possibly even the local community. Some families were...
Read full commentPosted in Letter to Ann Lovett (1968 - 1984)
Ain't nobody I'd rather be...
Posted on Tue, 23 Dec 2025
Thanks for your comment Kat. Kind words in there, as always.
For me Chris Rea was the male Kirsty MacColl. Both now no longer with us and both remembered fondly by the public predominantly on the strength of one Christmas hit. I used to...
Read full commentPosted in Driving Home for Chris
Walking in the air
Posted on Tue, 23 Dec 2025
Nice Jenny!
Reading this I imagined you starring in the Snowman video.
I hope you have a great time walking in the air and floating in the moonlit sky.
Read full commentPosted in Christmas Is Coming
Wee Bach
Posted on Wed, 17 Dec 2025
The Stranocum avenue of trees is a lovely thing to see but it really does make me sad to know that the trees are suffering because of their fame. I forgot to mention in my story that they have also been damaged by graffiti as people with...
Read full commentPosted in A Hare's Breath 5 - The Dark Hedges
Trees
Posted on Wed, 17 Dec 2025
We will persevere but it may well be that the ABC Beech Nut Germination Challenge 2026 doesn't kick off until the autumn. I've sadly resigned myself to the fact that I will see very few of the seeds that I sow grow into mature trees in what...
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Beech trees
Posted on Wed, 17 Dec 2025
I'm not sure Di, I'll have to do a bit of research. Some of our national park areas are mountain wilderness with only rough tracks or no roads at all, and we only have a Fiat Panda. But places we can find reasonably easily we tend to go to more...
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Save the trees!
Posted on Wed, 17 Dec 2025
Hello Di.
I googled European beech trees and it says they typically survive for 300 to 350 years, so it saddens me deeply that the Stranocum ones were living up to expectations until the recent arrival of the tourists.
I...
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