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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
I’m Only Happy When It Rains
All the things I saw, did, said, took to the vets, observed in a state of wobbliness or tapped my foot to during the final fifteen days of May.
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Strimmer Time and the Living is Easy
All the things I saw, did, said, mopped up, or read about during the first sixteen days of May.
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Teeth of Many Colours
All the things I saw, did, said, tasted, felt or read about during the latter fifteen days of April.
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T-Cut on the A-Bomb
All the things I saw, did, said, smelt or read about during the first fifteen days of April.
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What a Waist
Eating food is a reason to be cheerful, and the pleasure I get from it is something I’ve attempted to celebrate here in the style of Ian Dury and The Blockheads. If you know their work you could perhaps sing along with my words.
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Dave and Di
Posted on Sat, 04 Apr 2026
Righto. I'd read five of the six of them before I noticed the repetition.
Dave's a great name for a storm but I can't wait for the day we have Hurricane Higgins.
Read full commentPosted in Is Kerry Katona a Cat Owner?
WW3&4
Posted on Sat, 04 Apr 2026
But by then there'll be no oil, electricity, factories or megalomaniacal world leaders. After world war three there probably won't even be a world worth fighting over.
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The Clangers
Posted on Sat, 04 Apr 2026
What are they expecting to find on the Moon? Oil or weapons of mass destruction?
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What's to be done?
Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2026
I agree with you entirely Kat. I support charities that support Third World problems and I boycott so much stuff there’s not much left to give up. One of my biggest pleasures is Spotify but it’s also a major source of guilt in my life. Apart from...
Read full commentPosted in A Hungry Bear Doesn’t Dance
Say, don't you remember? I'm your pal.
Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2026
Once I built a railroad, I made it run
Made it race against time
Once I built a railroad, now it's done
Buddy, can you spare a dime?
Brilliant song! There are many versions of but I think Ronnie Lane (formerly of the...
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The Butler
Posted on Sat, 28 Mar 2026
I wouldn't put it past him. It was Lambert and Butler that saw off my Auntie Jessie.
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Turpitude
Posted on Mon, 23 Mar 2026
A couple of glasses of turpitude and I'm anybody's.
Read full commentPosted in Penny’s Pass the Story - Part Four
Italian cuisine
Posted on Thu, 12 Mar 2026
Twenty years before I tasted parmesan cheese for the first time, I heard a posh friend of our family talking about being in an Italian restaurant in London and having ‘parmies and cheese’ on her spaghetti. I’d only ever seen spaghetti from a...
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Beans
Posted on Fri, 06 Mar 2026
Oh Jenny.
What an awful experience. What you’ve been through sounds like the sort of ordeal that would make a person ill even if they weren’t in the first place. I always get the impression that the people who work in NHS hospitals are...
Read full commentPosted in My Time In A & E ( PT 2 )
Vive la Différence
Posted on Sat, 28 Feb 2026
From the days when I worked in Barking (a place that strangely has nothing to do with dogs) with an office full of Essex meatheads, I vaguely remember Mitzi being the name of a page three model. I hope your mum’s dog kept its top on.
There...
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