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Terence Mullan
During the hot Balkan afternoons it’s grand to lie on the settee with jugs of glacial tea and a summer soundtrack. Joni Mitchell, Joseph Canteloube, Bob Marley and Mississippi John Hurt on scratchy vinyl all sooth as Pavlovian mosquitos snarl from their sides of insect screens.
Those afternoons will be back soon, I hope. I don't care for this having to wear socks nonsense.
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Back in the M.A.F.F. - Part One of Two
It was the first time I’d ever been asked the question ‘Are you allergic to silage?’ at a job interview. I couldn’t give a definitive answer because...
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Miss Australia 1978 – Part Four of Four
Kev sat down on my settee with a beer from my fridge to watch the racing results on my television. Jim in Glasgow had paid for all of these things,...
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Miss Australia 1978 – Part Three of Four
From the cockpit, Captain Australia (the world’s first marsupial superhero) announced that we would be landing in Naples, Muscat, Bombay, Singapore...
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Miss Australia 1978 – Part Two of Four
Unfortunately, I didn’t have my mobile phone with me because at that stage of the rampant global advance in technology they had yet to be invented,...
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Miss Australia 1978 – Part One of Four
If we were allowed to make up our own birth signs I reckon I’d probably go for Hermes (not herpes) because in Greek mythology, he was the god of...
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I try to do this not waking
Posted on Tue, 13 Feb 2024
I try to do this not waking up thing myself, Rhiannon, but I'm always met on the landing by an infestation of cats that all want to dive in to drink running water from the tap in the bathroom washbasin. To me it seems I waste my time.
The...
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Gypsies
Posted on Mon, 05 Feb 2024
Ah now, my heart’s full of special music.
I’ve dozens of favourites and if I listed them all you’d get bored but top of the tree is David Bowie.
I was brought up on Irish music (Dubliners, Clancy Brothers, Planxty, Josef Locke) and...
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My parents would drag me and
Posted on Sun, 11 Feb 2024
My parents would drag me and my sister to Crazy Prices in Coleraine every Fiday evening in the late 1960s. I didn't like going but watching the sparks fly from the fingers of the check-out woman as she tapped in the prices on the buttons on the...
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Her mind a circus in a
Posted on Wed, 07 Feb 2024
Her mind a circus in a fishbowl
That's a brilliant line.
Every time, the whole situation is one of mental torture for the poor elderly person and for the family but struggling on without the care home is even harder....
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Poor, poor tadpoles.
Posted on Thu, 08 Feb 2024
We avoid using the car as much as possible and recycle practically everything. Even our cats are secondhand. There's not much more that we can do to save the planet except to sit at home and be depressed about it.
I didn't know about the...
Read full commentPosted in This Sort of Thing - January 2024 - Main Course
Thanks very much airyfairy.
Posted on Thu, 08 Feb 2024
Thanks very much airyfairy.
My 100 words a day thing keeps my brain ticking over. It's a bit like a sodoku in words rather than numbers. So even if nobody reads it, it's worth having a crack at.
Read full commentPosted in This Sort of Thing - January 2024 - Main Course
When I read your comment, Di,
Posted on Thu, 08 Feb 2024
When I read your comment, Di, I thought your cat had been complaining about chalkdust. We have dust but it's nothing to do with chalk.
Our weather is unbelievably warm at the moment which is not typical. Our winters are much milder than...
Read full commentPosted in This Sort of Thing - January 2024 - Main Course
It certainly is Rhiannon.
Posted on Thu, 08 Feb 2024
It certainly is Rhiannon. Already we have things sprouting up all over the place. At the beginning of March nature seems to explode in Bulgaria.
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Andy Williams sang...
Posted on Thu, 08 Feb 2024
Andy Williams sang, 'It's the most wonderful time of the year!' I don't think he meant February but if they'd asked me to sing it instead of him, that's certainly what would have been going through my mind.
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Life started to become
Posted on Thu, 08 Feb 2024
Life started to become difficult, Jenny, with the introduction of colour tellies and decimal coinage. Where I lived our whole world was in black and white and nobody had any money so it all took a lot longer to understand.
Thanks for...
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