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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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Cheese and Onion Tuesday
Have you ever been contaminated on the way to your workplace?
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This Sort of Thing - January 2024 - Main Course
Written at the rate of 100 words per day, this is the second part of my account of a journey from the settee to the corner of our kitchen where the kettle is. At this point the kettle is switched on. I only wish, during that icy month, I could have said the same about myself.
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This Sort of Thing - January 2024 - Starter
Written at the rate of 100 words per day, this is the first part of my account of a journey from the settee to the corner of our kitchen where the kettle is.
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Cherries and Dahlia Petals
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Twelve, the final part.
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The Gaddafi Effect
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Eleven (with photographs, though they're the same photographs as in Part Ten, so you may have seen them before).
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Limericks
Posted on Fri, 21 Feb 2025
A nice bit of rhyme that really made me smile.
Good luck, especially with the prune soup.
Read full commentPosted in So Much To Lose
School
Posted on Fri, 21 Feb 2025
Hello Jenny.
Foxwood School had been only for boys when it opened in the late 1950s but the year group I was in was the last before they opened it up to girls. So there were always girls around but not in my year. When I reached the sixth...
Read full commentPosted in The Sogginess of the Long-Distance Runner
Thank you for the days
Posted on Fri, 21 Feb 2025
There was a day for almost everything during school days. I think you've covered most of them in your poem which I enjoyed reading.
I must admit that my favourite day was leaving day.
Read full commentPosted in School Days - Walking Through My Mind
The tinkering of cattle
Posted on Tue, 18 Feb 2025
Of all the animials I have come face to face with, cows have had the most gorgeous eyes.
A lovely poem, beautifully tinkered.
Read full commentPosted in Cows - lost, refound, tinkered with.
Kes
Posted on Sun, 09 Feb 2025
The Biederbecke Affair was typical 1980s Sunday evening light hearted drama and although entertaining at the time it might seem a bit dated now.
Kes, however, is an absolute classic of British cinema and well worth a watch. I believe all...
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Fitting in
Posted on Sun, 09 Feb 2025
I agree with you Rhiannon and what you have said is exactly what Sofi (aka Priyatelkata) and I have done.
However, many immigrants here (but thankfully not all) behave in the exact opposite way. They seem to want to make Bulgaria into a...
Read full commentPosted in Shenanigans with Catkins
Blackboard Jungle
Posted on Sun, 09 Feb 2025
That's a great account of some wonderful memories Jenny.
You're braver than me. The school I went to in Leeds in the 1970s was wild. It was very similar to the school in Ken Loach's film Kes. My younger sister has kept in touch...
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Made my day
Posted on Sat, 08 Feb 2025
Woo hoo Drew, you've made my day!
Thank you very much for the golden cherries and for the kindness of your words.
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Adventures
Posted on Sun, 02 Feb 2025
I'm very well thank you Jenny, and I'm happy to know that you're in much better shape than you have been. I hope that when the better weather arrives you manage to get out with your partner for some local adventures. I was talking to my daughter...
Read full commentPosted in Like Autumn Leaves Scatter In The Breeze
Anchors aweigh!
Posted on Fri, 07 Feb 2025
The word 'starboard' was originally 'steerboard' and originated in the times before rudders were invented. Instead they would always have one extra big oar for steering purposes which was nearly always fixed in place on the deck (or boards) on...
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