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Taking Tea - Kavinda and Me

By Turlough on Thu, 17 Apr 2025

Part Two of the Flour of Sri Lanka series. Will you take tea, dear friend? Ceylon or Dundee?

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A Black Morris Minor and a Pink Carnation

By Turlough on Wed, 16 Apr 2025

Part One of the Flour of Sri Lanka series. Coping with the heat, the flies and the disco funk.

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Nihil Impossibile Erit Vobis

By Turlough on Wed, 09 Apr 2025

A wild rainy day spent with a grand bit of twentieth century Irish literature and a big box of teabags.

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Hot Cross Buns and Fish and Chips

By Turlough on Wed, 02 Apr 2025

It’s that one hundred words thing again, covering the second half of March when I was mostly in England.

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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.

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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!

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Teds

Posted on Fri, 06 Mar 2026

When I was an Eastender the rhyming slang they used for teeth was Ted Heath. I first became aware of this when a West Ham United fan I had the pleasure of working with would often regale his account of the time he had all his Teds kicked in on...