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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
My Verbal Diary Here
I couldn’t match the style of Jenny Skinner’s diary entries but I hope this helps to cheer her up a bit while she’s feeling under the weather.
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Yantra Mantra
Oh Yantra, river of my dreams...
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Three O’Clock Sheep Club
A crowded but lonely place.
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Me and My Muezzin
When I was a lad I worked on big ships. Here I describe the Suez Canal stretch of a sea passage from Quebec City in Canada to Colombo in Sri Lanka round about 1977. Our ship was loaded with a bulk cargo of poverty relief grain financed by the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA). Some of my writing is an embellishment of the truth and a little bit of it is the result of pure imagination, but this poem is as near to the truth as I could get whilst attempting to remain poetic.
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Jacques in the Box
A mysterious woman’s trunk of treasures.
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Ol' Blue Eyes
Posted on Thu, 25 Jul 2024
Frank Sinatra might have been the person who got this ball rolling. He had a hit entitled 'From the Bottom of My Heart' a fair few years before I was born.
But watch out for typos!
'From the heart of my bottom' would change the...
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Positive attitude
Posted on Wed, 24 Jul 2024
There have been times when it's been necessary for me to get myself extra super fit for walking and cycling trips that I've sometimes foolishly agreed to go on but generally I've avoided physical exercise for great swathes of my life.
So...
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Hello dear Jenny.
Posted on Wed, 24 Jul 2024
Hello dear Jenny.
I'm very sorry to hear that you're still suffering with your illness. I hope someone or something can improve your health and mobility soon. I admire you for continuing to write your poetry through it all.
Your...
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Yellow Stickers
Posted on Mon, 22 Jul 2024
Dear TR Maxine,
Do you realise that your latest comment is about ten times longer than your original story? That's impressive. Thank you for enlightening me though. I used to work near a branch of TR Maxx in Bristol but, suspecting that it...
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Sober inebriatist, drunken teetotalist
Posted on Tue, 23 Jul 2024
Excellent words containing a lot of very well thought out rhyme that frantically jumps off the page to emphasise the utter desperation.
Silent Death recaps his ink... a brilliant penultimate line!
I'm not sure if enjoyed is...
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The hole in the ground
Posted on Mon, 22 Jul 2024
Our garden is indeed very big. Friends tell us it is more like a park than a garden. We have hundreds of trees so maybe to be buried under one of the smaller walnuts will be a possibility, though I'd prefer the big ancient one that I often sit...
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Roots
Posted on Mon, 22 Jul 2024
It's emotional blackmail. The vets know that people with raw emotions will find the money.
We just bury ours in the garden. There's even a space for me. It's just beside the redcurrant bushes. I would have preferred to be beneath the...
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Sheds
Posted on Sun, 21 Jul 2024
I had thought about writing a story just like yours but it would have meant sorting our shed out a bit first which would be quite a task so I'll just read yours.
Intriguing stuff it is too!
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Eric's PTSD
Posted on Fri, 19 Jul 2024
I think grumpy old Eric had PTSD long before the outbreak of World War Two and the Icelanders only shot him (no one else, as he could recall) so that he'd go home. During the years that I was living near to Bath the majority of the buses there...
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Cheryl
Posted on Fri, 19 Jul 2024
Is it Cheryl from Bucks Fizz?
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