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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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Nihil Impossibile Erit Vobis
A wild rainy day spent with a grand bit of twentieth century Irish literature and a big box of teabags.
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Hot Cross Buns and Fish and Chips
It’s that one hundred words thing again, covering the second half of March when I was mostly in England.
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Johnny Ten Levs vs Jack Daniels
It’s that one hundred words thing again, covering the first half of March when I was mostly in Bulgaria.
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Streets of Stoke Newington
Possibly the most tenuous link ever to a weekly inspirational point (this week it’s toast) and a fond recollection of happy times in the mid-1980s living with ‘her indoors’ in a North London oasis of social harmony.
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The Archers in Cyrillic Script
The events of February 2025 (the second part) in my neck of the area of land, smaller than a forest, that is covered with growing trees, described using my usual one hundred words per day method.
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You say Latina, I say Latino. etc.
Posted on Fri, 03 Jul 2026
Don’t go telling anybody, Kat, but the story is probably about 60% autobiographical. I changed only my name to protect the innocent.
I’ll adjust my Valparaíso Latina toot sweet. Thanks for pointing out my error.
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The funny thing about working in IT
Posted on Fri, 26 Jun 2026
It’s twenty-one years since I left my IT job so I may qualify as an old IT-er but I still had to do a bit of Googling to get your joke. Nice one though!
I can’t think of anything funny from my time in IT except when my boss was losing an...
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Was it a Norwegian Blue?
Posted on Fri, 26 Jun 2026
How on earth did your cat manage to get hold of a parrot? They’re almost as big as a cat so not easy to trap, and I’d imagine they’re a rare commodity in rural England. I feel very sorry for the poor parrot but fair play to the cat. Might it have...
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Strays
Posted on Fri, 26 Jun 2026
That’s a lovely story Kat, but not all stray cats are as easy to befriend or adopt. The only one that we have taken in as an adult is Manoushka, a three-year-old that had been an apartment cat but when her elderly owner died the family threw her...
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Cats and dogs
Posted on Fri, 26 Jun 2026
Stray animals are a problem not just in Bulgaria but in most of the world’s poorer countries. The stray dog problem here is an even bigger problem than the cat problem. There are some volunteer groups who catch the dogs and have them neutered...
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Septic cats, etc
Posted on Fri, 26 Jun 2026
Hello Di.
It’s mostly Ludo that has the septic problems but whichever one it is that’s suffering, it’s usually because they’ve been fighting with the strays in the street. Ludo also has a lot of plant and insect allergy problems so we keep...
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Freedom
Posted on Fri, 26 Jun 2026
You could spend an eternity talking about eternity only to discover that you're excluded from it.
Free your mind and the rest will follow.
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Happiness Is a warm goat
Posted on Fri, 26 Jun 2026
There’s another amazing Bulgarian fact coming soon!
During my recent absence from ABC I noticed that the mighty Villa won a trophy. May I take this opportunity to congratulate you on that?
And as for your temperatures, well welcome...
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Scared
Posted on Wed, 24 Jun 2026
My feelings entirely Jane. It has become obvious that the people in power will stop at nothing to make money. I'm scared too.
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Gazza
Posted on Wed, 24 Jun 2026
Apparently Paul Gascoigne used to hide two fish in different places in people's cars. So when they found one fish they thought they had solved the problem but they were badly mistaken.
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