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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.
My stories
The Spice of Life
The musings of an elderly observer of what can be seen in other people’s shopping trolleys.
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Bill or Bob?
If William Shakespeare and Bob Marley had a fight, who do you think would win? There’s only one way to find out…
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This Sort of Thing - The Childhood Stage
From a Smoggie to a Culchie, a ten year journey.
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This Sort of Thing - April 2024 - The Sporophyte Stage
Eat your words but don't go hungry. Words can make you grow rotundly.
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This Sort of Thing - April 2024 - The Gametophyte Stage
Words to tell you what to do. Words as strong as Irn Bru.
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Old Quarry
Posted on Fri, 25 Apr 2025
We never know what characters hide behind those scary faces. Better safe than sorry, every time for children and adults.
When I was nine and living in York, a lorry driver stopped and offered me a lift. I often think back and wonder what...
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Scary stuff
Posted on Fri, 25 Apr 2025
Such a shame that a lovely adventure should go so horribly wrong. You did right to run away as it could have gone even more horribly wrong. A story of two extremes, and quite disturbing as we never know what is out there. We live in a scary world...
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Petty cash
Posted on Thu, 17 Apr 2025
The money I gave to Kavinda was approximately one tenth of my weekly wage at the time, so not much at all to me but a fortune to him.
I've written part three but it's too big to fit within the parameters of an ABC post so I've split it and...
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Ships
Posted on Wed, 16 Apr 2025
Thank you very much Jenny.
I think hardship enriches our lives more than riches do, though probably not for Sri Lankans as so many of them have known only hardship.
I worked for the shipping company just short of three years which...
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Wish!
Posted on Mon, 14 Apr 2025
I wish I knew what happens next.
It's nice to see you starting a new story and to be in on it from the beginning. Good luck with it.
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Even older than me
Posted on Sat, 12 Apr 2025
It absolutely amazes me how a living organism can survive so long. Imagine the things it has lived through. I wouldn't want to be an oak tree myself though.
Lovely poem Jenny.
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Yeats and Villa
Posted on Wed, 09 Apr 2025
Thanks for that Paul. I pick up the Yeats book from time to time but I'd be fibbing if I said I'd read it from cover to cover. Days with absolutely nothing at all to do are perfect for such literary adventures.
On a totally different...
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A gripping beginning
Posted on Mon, 01 Aug 2022
A gripping end to the first instalment. I feel this is going to be an altogether gripping tale.
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Perfidia
Posted on Sun, 06 Apr 2025
I must confess that I've only started reading Willow's Missing Tail quite recently. I'm enjoying the read but a bit lost at times (most times) so I can see that I need to go the very beginning and start from scratch. Don't wait for me though....
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Dirndl
Posted on Thu, 03 Apr 2025
Ta CM. That's my weekend entertainment sorted.
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