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Terence Mullan
Down the years I have lived in many places and I have done many jobs. Now I live in Bulgaria and the only work I do is tending to my lovely garden when the sun is shining and scribbling away in my big book of writing stuff when it is not.
I may have left it too late in life to become a famous writer or celebrated gardener but I will persevere anyway. These are the things that occupy me in a seemingly effortless and satisfying way.
My stories
It Being December
Dulled A mind follows a rainbow Seven shades of jet In hope to find A faerie shoemaker In wee black jacket and cap Tap-tapping at the soles Of...
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Hotel Mediterraneo
Sultry and still the sweet night air. Latin music. Crickets chirping. Like a favela in Rio or anywhere But for the sound of Geordies burping. For el...
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Lazing On a Thursday Afternoon
Caught in a lull between two storms, I’m stuck in an uneasy stay-in-the-house kind of frame of mind, reluctant to open the back door even though the...
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Take It or Leave It (with music video)
I first posted this poem on the ABCTales website in November, during the week when our Inspiration Point was ambivalence. Please forgive me if you...
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Copse and Robbers
No Bulgar children, women or men Can recall the day exactly when They first strode into forested lands With an axe on a shoulder or a saw in a hand...
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There are many people,
Posted on Tue, 17 Oct 2023
There are many people, organisations, places, etc who will offer peace and serenity and enlightenment, and good on them. Each to their own is my philosophy. But I find that nothing in this world brings me the contentedness that I need more than...
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Lovely words Jenny.
Posted on Mon, 09 Oct 2023
Lovely words Jenny.
They make me think of our dog, Snezhinka. We rescued her from the street when she was a pup so she's still a bit wild, spending a lot of time alone in the forest. I'm sure she has delusions of grandeur.
Read full commentPosted in Through Wolf Eyes
Don't let go of that flimsy
Posted on Tue, 10 Oct 2023
Don't let go of that flimsy branch Jenny. A bit of mulch round your roots and a mild winter and you'll be grand, I'm sure.
I completely agree with what's been said here about escapism. Reading the words of others and writing my own takes...
Read full commentPosted in Curious Magic
Great story! I enjoyed this..
Posted on Sun, 15 Oct 2023
Great story! I enjoyed this... both parts. But I'm worried that if there is a part three it might be set in a JML women's refuge.
Vanessa should make him listen to 'The Gift', the song by the Velvet Underground. That would make him think...
Read full commentPosted in 'Parcel for you..' Part 2
'Tis better to have written a
Posted on Mon, 16 Oct 2023
'Tis better to have written a poem and be told that it's crap than never to have never written a poem at all' as Alfred Tennyson's Auntie Elsie once said.
Read full commentPosted in Risk Averse
I was gripped by every word
Posted on Sun, 08 Oct 2023
I was gripped by every word from beginning to end. Partly because it's so well written and partly because I thought it might turn out to be about one of our cats.
Read full commentPosted in The little person
Ah, thanks very much Coral.
Posted on Sun, 15 Oct 2023
Ah, thanks very much Coral.
On the third Sunday in every month I always polish my Turkish silver nipple clamps, so that was the source of inspiration for me today.
Tx
Read full commentPosted in Jacques in the Box
Thank you Celticman.
Posted on Sun, 15 Oct 2023
Thank you Celticman.
I've had this in my head for a while but I was sort of saving it for a week when Motherwell might be chosen as the Inspiration Point.
Read full commentPosted in Jacques in the Box
Oh, alright then IPFN. Sorry
Posted on Sun, 15 Oct 2023
Oh, alright then IPFN. Sorry about that. Perhaps to make the reality a little more interesting I should add that for our duvet covers and stuff we use this big old trunk rescued from an old house in Nova Zagora. Over your side of Europe folks...
Read full commentPosted in Jacques in the Box
This is great! It made me
Posted on Fri, 13 Oct 2023
This is great! It made me laugh.
I've got the bare bones of something on the same subject but I'll put it on the shelf for a few months so's people don't think I'm a big old copy cat. It's also a good excuse to get out of trying to finish...
Read full commentPosted in I'll Think About Writing
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