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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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Don't Mess with a Meteorology Man
What I did during the second half of August 2024, at the rate of 100 words per day.
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For the Love of Irma Ogden
What I did during the first half of August 2024, at the rate of 100 words per day.
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No Country for Cold Men
Made in the shade of our covered terrace late in the afternoon on one of those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer.
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Benches & Hedges
If you turn off your mind, relax and float downstream you might just find there’s a lot more than botany to discover in a garden, especially in Leeds.
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Crado Come Home
Me and the world around me during the second half of July 2024, in 100 words per day.
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Fleetwood Mac
Posted on Mon, 10 Nov 2025
When I lived in Chippenham I used to regularly go with my kids to watch Bath City FC playing football at their ground in the Twerton district of the city.
During those matches I talked to and befriended many of the natives, one of which...
Read full commentPosted in Turlough Ó Carolan's Farewell to Turlough Ó Maoláin
Cheese
Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025
I was led to believe that it was something to do with a shortage of parmesan cheese over there and it stood for Make America Grate Again.
But we do need more accordions, and harmonicas.
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Hats
Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025
There's money to be made selling baseball hats bearing the words 'Make me great again, though I always have been'.
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Old Scotsmen
Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025
I've never met the Old Man of Storr (your description of him suggests he's quite a character) but I have met the Old Man of Hoy who seems like a similar sort of old man. They must get together to discuss which Scottish island they're going to...
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Lesley Garrett and Billy the Kid
Posted on Mon, 10 Nov 2025
A funny, sad and exhilarating journey from the bar to motherhood. Good on you for keeping those things and telling us about them and surviving Lesley Garrett.
Read full commentPosted in Things You Keep
Brutal
Posted on Thu, 30 Oct 2025
The Celtic cross was an incredible piece of sculpting but I struggled to enjoy it because it was a memorial to a landowner (the Earl of Leitrim) who was an altogether unpleasant man though not as bad as his father who was assassinated by locals...
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Roots
Posted on Tue, 21 Oct 2025
I've moved around a lot in my life Jenny, so I've never been sure where home was. Family members had always told me that Ireland was home and when I go there it feels like that's true, so that's a big part of the reason I get the lumps. But...
Read full commentPosted in Singin' in the Buncrana Rain
Nice one!
Posted on Tue, 21 Oct 2025
Nice one Paul... an eerie tale expertly written.
But if you don't mind I'll just point out a bit of a factual error. Brian Eno left Roxy Music nine years before they released Avalon. At that stage of the band's history only Bryan Ferry, ...
Read full commentPosted in Why does it always rain in graveyards?
Shells
Posted on Sun, 19 Oct 2025
It's hard to say what Priyatelkata does for a living. She sells seashells on the seashore.
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Funeral Fans
Posted on Sat, 18 Oct 2025
For me, your second paragraph sums up the seasonal changes and other people's peculiar approach to them. And I think and hope that Herbican's a fictitious character as you've demonstrated great skill in describing what a miserable character he is...
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