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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
All the President’s Biscuits
Me and the world around me during the first half of July 2024, in 100 words per day.
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Candi Staton, the Sea and Me
Memories of my last night before becoming a salty sea dog. It all happened at the Devon public house in the fashionable Cross Gates district of Leeds, round about the end of August 1976.
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Tang Hall Beck
Sunny Saturdays with the sticklebacks and my friend John Lancaster. A memory of York from 1966.
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Eric’s War
A concise history of World War Two as told to me long ago by my dear old friend Eric. Additional material was provided by his lovely wife Peggy.
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My Döner and Chide
The surprises that turn up in your pocket of a Thursday morning.
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Teapot Trafficking
Posted on Fri, 17 Oct 2025
What you've said is true Di. People have been leaving rural Ireland for a couple of centuries. The country's population still hasn't recovered to the level it was before the Great Hunger in the 1840s when a million people died and another million...
Read full commentPosted in To the Lighthouse Café
Teachers
Posted on Thu, 16 Oct 2025
I was painfully shy back then and afraid to say boo to a goose. My parents moved us around quite a bit so I always seemed to have the wrong accent. Feeling intimidated most of the time, or at the very best just bored, I never stuck up for myself...
Read full commentPosted in At Home in the Pause
Pause for thought.
Posted on Thu, 16 Oct 2025
Your words fit perfectly with how I've felt for years.
Everybody measures success in different ways. My experience of school teachers was that they felt they'd been successful if they'd packed some kids off to university, whether it was...
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People in longboats
Posted on Sun, 12 Oct 2025
Aye, apparently many of the Vikings who arrived in Britain and Ireland did so to trade and even integrate and marry into local communities. I think a lot of the bad press they got was stirred up by an eighth century equivalent of Nigel Farage and...
Read full commentPosted in Floki's Viking Spirit
Tony & Kirk
Posted on Sun, 12 Oct 2025
Nice one Jenny! A great poem and well deserving of the golden delicious.
I've never seen the Vikings television series but when I was a kid I loved the film of the same name that had Tony Curtis and Kirk Douglas in it. There's one bit...
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Euro cash
Posted on Fri, 26 Sep 2025
Ha ha! Saint Pay Up would be a great name for a fella on our money. St P is only going on the Bulgarian euro coin, not the notes. Every country in the Eurozone has it's own euro coin but they all use each other's. The euro banknotes are the same...
Read full commentPosted in Bring Me the Head of St. Paisius of Hilendar
Bringing in the Sheaves
Posted on Thu, 25 Sep 2025
Those flaxen days are footprints of life these days Jenny, not just of summer. In recent years I've watched farmers taking in the hay. The machinery they have is so advanced that they can do it at night in the rain. Farming is well and truly an...
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Sunny Swindon
Posted on Thu, 25 Sep 2025
It's hard to imagine Swindon without Honda. I bought a Honda Civic in 2002 and was mocked for buying a foreign car but in actual fact it had been built only thirty miles away from where I lived.
It's funny how I have a soft spot for the...
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Groundwell Trading Estate
Posted on Thu, 25 Sep 2025
A noise in the night is always ten times louder than a noise in the day so I'm not surprised you couldn't sleep Jenny, especially as bombs seem to be so much more popular these days.
I hope there's no repetition.
I Googled...
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6°C
Posted on Thu, 25 Sep 2025
Sorry for the delay IPFN. I've been away for a couple of weeks but catching up now. It's still pleasantly warm and sunny in Bulgaria but where we were in Donegal it was cold, wet and windy most of the time. If that saying 'a change is as good as...
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