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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
This Sort of Thing - The Childhood Stage
From a Smoggie to a Culchie, a ten year journey.
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This Sort of Thing - April 2024 - The Sporophyte Stage
Eat your words but don't go hungry. Words can make you grow rotundly.
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This Sort of Thing - April 2024 - The Gametophyte Stage
Words to tell you what to do. Words as strong as Irn Bru.
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Turn and Face the Strange
Contemplating life in a world where virtually everything’s becoming virtual.
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Catatouille
Discovering that meat isn’t necessarily murder.
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Salty
Posted on Wed, 06 Aug 2025
Until the lunchbox appeared you were edging towards blues singer Robert Johnson's meeting at the Crossroads.
But what first caught my eye was
A down-and-out salty sea dog
which made me wonder if you were writing...
Read full commentPosted in The Last Temptation of Kieran Murphy
My thoughts
Posted on Tue, 05 Aug 2025
Your poetic description of the beautiful nature around you at this time of year and the situation in Palestine are each at opposite ends of the spectrum of what's exists daily n my mind Di. It increases the need for we in safer countries to...
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A Year in Pavlikeni
Posted on Mon, 04 Aug 2025
Unfortunately they don't sell Leeds United strips for cats here, and she wouldn't be seen dead in a Locomotiv Gorna Oryahovitsa shirt, so there might be a bit of a wait for the photographs. Meanwhile we're in talks with the vet for a tattoo....
Read full commentPosted in Violetta Are You Better?
Them ol' school recorder lessons blues
Posted on Thu, 31 Jul 2025
Walt was (and is) a great bloke, as was (and is) his brother and their two families. My head is still full of their little sayings and jokes that enriched my teenage years. And Sheila, who is no longer with us, couldn't have been a better mother-...
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Great words
Posted on Thu, 31 Jul 2025
But possibly not tea!
Great words you've got there Tan.
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Come back Bert Weedon. We need you!
Posted on Thu, 31 Jul 2025
I agree entirely Jenny. Making music, like brain surgery and flying airlines, should always be left to the experts because in the wrong hands it can do a lot of harm. We only have to listen to the Bay City Rollers to see that this is true....
Read full commentPosted in While My Guitar Teacher Gently Weeps
Robotic voices
Posted on Wed, 30 Jul 2025
I recently went to see an Elvis Presley tribute act. I had to buy the tickets over the phone using a similar automated booking system to the one you have described.
The robotic voice at the other end of the line said, 'Well it's one for...
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Punch
Posted on Mon, 28 Jul 2025
Aww, thanks for that Ewan. I'll carry on regardless in this world of sanitised humour.
Two of my kids do stand-up comedy as a hobby sort of thing in and around Manchester. I'm very proud of them and I always tell them their material's...
Read full commentPosted in There’s a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He’s Engels
Always turned strange
Posted on Mon, 28 Jul 2025
Stories were weird. They started out fine, but always turned strange.
That's a good sign of a good story.
Nice one Jess! I enjoyed this.
Read full commentPosted in The Watchers In The Walls
Graces
Posted on Sun, 27 Jul 2025
My mother was called Grace, as were her mother and three more generations before her. There was a lull of many women in our family but none ever struck me as being mythological.
A verry nice poem Jenny that's made me think.
Read full commentPosted in A Poet's Greek Mythology
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