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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
Kathleen’s Secret
Based on an oft-told story of my father’s. Kathleen and the hat definitely existed until the early 1960s but I’d be a fool to promise that the rest of his tale is true.
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Boško’s Clouds
You never know what might happen when you delve into an old plastic ice cream tub.
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The Tale of the Housemaid’s Knee
My contribution to world events during the second half of October 2024, again described at the rate of one hundred words per day.
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Seven Roofers Roofing
My contribution to world events during the first half of October 2024, described at the rate of one hundred words per day.
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Wee Plastic Hats Off to Ole Kirk Christiansen!
A small box of Lego is just enough to give your kids a treat.
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Aliens
Posted on Fri, 28 Nov 2025
At the time of booking I was offered the chance to extend the trip to take in an archaeological site in southern Peru called the Nazca Lines. These are vast artistic depressions in the deseart floor dating back more than two thousand years and...
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What's next?
Posted on Fri, 28 Nov 2025
I never imagined that a story about a golf course and a leaf blower could be gripping. Nice one Jane! I'm looking forward to the next bit.
Read full commentPosted in The Leaf Blower - Part 4
Reading
Posted on Wed, 26 Nov 2025
I like
the braille-track of bone and muscle
suggesting that the person giving the massage can read you through touch.
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Ms Crawford
Posted on Sun, 23 Nov 2025
One Day I'll Fly Away... the daily thoughts of an eight-year-old Smoggie.
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Come back. Baby come back.
Posted on Tue, 25 Nov 2025
Well I hope Jesus has a second crack at the job soon and has a bit of success. Nobody else seems to have managed so they may as well give him a whirl.
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Dreaming
Posted on Sun, 23 Nov 2025
Street dreams are made of this. Who am I to disagree?
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The answer, my friend...
Posted on Tue, 25 Nov 2025
But what about Bob Dylan? You couldn't have found a cooler bloke in the day but the words of many of his songs oozed pessimism. So you might find life easier if you just tried to be like him.
Read full commentPosted in Absolute Zero Cool
Dust
Posted on Sun, 23 Nov 2025
Thanks very much for that Di. I wasn’t sure whether it worked as a poem or not and dithered for a while over posting it. It didn’t take me very long to write so that made me think it probably wasn’t up to much. It didn’t take long to write...
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Bunch of Grapes
Posted on Fri, 21 Nov 2025
My friends and I used to go to a lot of gigs at Colston Hall and the Arena in Bristol and for both venues the Bunch of Grapes in Denmark Street was the perfect place to meet. It was too for Hippodrome punters and actors, so that might be the pub...
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Ballet hell
Posted on Fri, 21 Nov 2025
A story of a great memory for you there Jenny, and nicely told.
My only memory of the Bristol Hippodrome brings back the smell of fear. About twenty-five years ago I went with some people from work to see a performance of Swan Lake. Our...
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