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The Meeting of the Waters

By Turlough on Sun, 08 Dec 2024

A few words about my love affair with one of Europe's great rivers and her little sister.

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Kathleen’s Secret

By Turlough on Mon, 02 Dec 2024

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

By Turlough on Wed, 13 Nov 2024

You never know what might happen when you delve into an old plastic ice cream tub.

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Autobiography

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The Tale of the Housemaid’s Knee

By Turlough on Tue, 12 Nov 2024

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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Stars

Posted on Sat, 31 Jan 2026

While the world goes spinning all over the place we have our own axis and it's good that we stick to it.

And this line is a great line...

In your garden, the fruit trees bloom with stars.

Posted in Pull

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Life on Mars

Posted on Thu, 29 Jan 2026

Perhaps Kandy in Sri Lanka or Sugar Loaf Mountain in Brazil would be a good place to start. Or even Bakewell where the tarts come from. And if all else fails you could start a new life on Mars.

I enjoyed your alternative approach to...

Posted in Chewy and Exhausting

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Shame

Posted on Sun, 18 Jan 2026

Kat, there’ll have been enormous pressure on them from their families because at that time they’ll have been considered to be the cause of overwhelming shame on the entire family and possibly even the local community. Some families were...

Posted in Letter to Ann Lovett (1968 - 1984)

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Ain't nobody I'd rather be...

Posted on Tue, 23 Dec 2025

Thanks for your comment Kat. Kind words in there, as always.

For me Chris Rea was the male Kirsty MacColl. Both now no longer with us and both remembered fondly by the public predominantly on the strength of one Christmas hit. I used to...

Posted in Driving Home for Chris

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Walking in the air

Posted on Tue, 23 Dec 2025

Nice Jenny!

Reading this I imagined you starring in the Snowman video.

I hope you have a great time walking in the air and floating in the moonlit sky.

Posted in Christmas Is Coming

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Wee Bach

Posted on Wed, 17 Dec 2025

The Stranocum avenue of trees is a lovely thing to see but it really does make me sad to know that the trees are suffering because of their fame. I forgot to mention in my story that they have also been damaged by graffiti as people with...

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Trees

Posted on Wed, 17 Dec 2025

We will persevere but it may well be that the ABC Beech Nut Germination Challenge 2026 doesn't kick off until the autumn. I've sadly resigned myself to the fact that I will see very few of the seeds that I sow grow into mature trees in what...

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Beech trees

Posted on Wed, 17 Dec 2025

I'm not sure Di, I'll have to do a bit of research. Some of our national park areas are mountain wilderness with only rough tracks or no roads at all, and we only have a Fiat Panda. But places we can find reasonably easily we tend to go to more...

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Save the trees!

Posted on Wed, 17 Dec 2025

Hello Di.

I googled European beech trees and it says they typically survive for 300 to 350 years, so it saddens me deeply that the Stranocum ones were living up to expectations until the recent arrival of the tourists.

I...

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Close shave

Posted on Wed, 17 Dec 2025

It was a war really and these things happen in all wars. Although there’s war everywhere, our generation in our part of the world is generally untouched by such events. We’ve been very lucky, so far.

A few years ago I was on a walking...