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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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This Sort of Thing - February 2024 - Last Orders
Written at the rate of 100 words per day, this is the second part of my account of an arduous journey through February via the middle of nowhere.
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This Sort of Thing - February 2024 - Early Doors
Written at the rate of 100 words per day, this is the first part of my account of an arduous journey from the beginning of February to the middle of February.
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Ophidian at Four O’Clock
Happiness is a hot Balkan afternoon...
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Johnny Ten Levs
Johnny’s always drifting around, trying to find, alcohol.
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Cheese and Onion Tuesday
Have you ever been contaminated on the way to your workplace?
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Bullied bullies
Posted on Sat, 22 Feb 2025
From my experience it seems that the bullied often go on to be bullies themselves. A real 'vicious' circle. Maintaining constant awareness of the problem's potential is probably the best approach.
An interesting read Jane.
Read full commentPosted in Nicola's Privilege
The phone and the IPA
Posted on Sat, 22 Feb 2025
Your woman with the phone and the IPA is much more a hero than the likes of Robbie Williams or David Beckham have ever been. How many people's heroes are true heroes? How many truly brave people have gone unrecognised?
This is a wonderful...
Read full commentPosted in Like dolphins can swim
Twilight
Posted on Sat, 22 Feb 2025
I wish my brain had a record & playback facility
I wish that too, for remembering those dreams that are dreamt in the half awake half asleep no man's land and which are lost the second that the waking up process is complete,...
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Limericks
Posted on Fri, 21 Feb 2025
A nice bit of rhyme that really made me smile.
Good luck, especially with the prune soup.
Read full commentPosted in So Much To Lose
School
Posted on Fri, 21 Feb 2025
Hello Jenny.
Foxwood School had been only for boys when it opened in the late 1950s but the year group I was in was the last before they opened it up to girls. So there were always girls around but not in my year. When I reached the sixth...
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Thank you for the days
Posted on Fri, 21 Feb 2025
There was a day for almost everything during school days. I think you've covered most of them in your poem which I enjoyed reading.
I must admit that my favourite day was leaving day.
Read full commentPosted in School Days - Walking Through My Mind
The tinkering of cattle
Posted on Tue, 18 Feb 2025
Of all the animials I have come face to face with, cows have had the most gorgeous eyes.
A lovely poem, beautifully tinkered.
Read full commentPosted in Cows - lost, refound, tinkered with.
Kes
Posted on Sun, 09 Feb 2025
The Biederbecke Affair was typical 1980s Sunday evening light hearted drama and although entertaining at the time it might seem a bit dated now.
Kes, however, is an absolute classic of British cinema and well worth a watch. I believe all...
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Fitting in
Posted on Sun, 09 Feb 2025
I agree with you Rhiannon and what you have said is exactly what Sofi (aka Priyatelkata) and I have done.
However, many immigrants here (but thankfully not all) behave in the exact opposite way. They seem to want to make Bulgaria into a...
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Blackboard Jungle
Posted on Sun, 09 Feb 2025
That's a great account of some wonderful memories Jenny.
You're braver than me. The school I went to in Leeds in the 1970s was wild. It was very similar to the school in Ken Loach's film Kes. My younger sister has kept in touch...
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