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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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Nellie the Devilment
How smiling eyes and a Derry accent can get you almost anything you want.
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Poking James MacGuigan’s Cow
This is an old bit of writing from the days when I was still nervous about farm animals. I’ve done a bit of the digital remastering because I was never really happy with it and I thought that while I was fiddling about I would change the subject from a pig to a cow, thus meeting the dictates of this week’s Inspiration Point. So you’d better read it because if you don’t I’ll set James MacGuigan on you.
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Trip of a Lifetime
A poem inspired by a terrible incident my partner and I witnessed on the four kilometre journey into our local town this morning.
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Scorn Not His Djezve
A tongue in cheek assessment of the misnomer that making good coffee is complicated.
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Water Under the Bridge
Crossing chasms to the past whilst not going out.
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The other forty
Posted on Mon, 08 Jul 2024
Four times fifteen percent is only sixty percent. I hope the other forty wasn't the best bit.
Most countries in southern and eastern Europe don't have homeless people. It's because accommodation is cheaper than in the west and it's in our...
Read full commentPosted in Malta. Part Nine.
Brecon Beacons
Posted on Sat, 06 Jul 2024
That's a beautiful part of the world you were in Rhiannon.
Twelve years ago, when I was living in Wiltshire, I went there with our local walking group. We climbed Fan y Big, Cribyn and Pen y Fan, though it wasn't all climbing. I vaguely...
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Greatly appreciated
Posted on Fri, 05 Jul 2024
Thanks very much Jane. Your words are greatly appreciated.
I'm just a bit disappointed in myself for only writing a couple of thousand words after doing more than forty years of research.
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My place
Posted on Tue, 02 Jul 2024
I only moved to Bulgaria because I'd run out of things to write about the Wiltshire drizzle.
Благодаря ти много Юън.
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Hawkwind
Posted on Mon, 01 Jul 2024
Hello Jenny.
The garden's tidy now but very bare. A rake, a shovel and a wheelbarrow was all we needed to do the job.
I hope Hawkwind fans won't be disappointed to learn that Priyatelkata's follow up single was Pasta Dutchie From...
Read full commentPosted in Holiday on Ice
Yes, ex Prime Minister
Posted on Thu, 27 Jun 2024
Nice one Paul. Your coincidental things would all be funny if they weren't such a scarily accurate description of the awful reality. And Sunak's still got a week to go so there's a strong possibility you'll have enough material for episode...
Read full commentPosted in Boris and the Hustings
In good hands
Posted on Mon, 24 Jun 2024
I'm glad to hear you're in good hands Jenny and heading in the right direction. Get well soon but don't rush it.
My very best wishes to you.
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Great words and great rhymes
Posted on Tue, 25 Jun 2024
Great words and great rhymes Rhiannon.
You got me singing...
I saw a peanut stand, heard a rubber band
Read full commentAnd seen a needle wink its eye
But I be done seen about everything
When I see an elephant fly
Posted in Extreme differences!
Get well soon!
Posted on Mon, 24 Jun 2024
Oh, no! Pneumonia! I'm really sorry to hear you've been so ill. It's nice to see you back though so I hope your health continues to improve. I had wondered but didn't like to pry.
The situation with our garden (along with our cars and our...
Read full commentPosted in His Flight
Mystery
Posted on Mon, 24 Jun 2024
Oh I love it when I come across a mystery while I'm walking through deserted places. And isn't it always the work of the faerie folk? They're capable of anything, particularly sending our minds off in wild directions. When my Nan was alive. if...
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