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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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More Elaines
Elaine and I barely spoke to each other but memories of this gruff, no-nonsense woman have stayed with me for fifty years.
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This Sort of Thing - February 2024 - Last Orders
Written at the rate of 100 words per day, this is the second part of my account of an arduous journey through February via the middle of nowhere.
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This Sort of Thing - February 2024 - Early Doors
Written at the rate of 100 words per day, this is the first part of my account of an arduous journey from the beginning of February to the middle of February.
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Ophidian at Four O’Clock
Happiness is a hot Balkan afternoon...
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Johnny Ten Levs
Johnny’s always drifting around, trying to find, alcohol.
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Disenchantment
Posted on Thu, 05 Jun 2025
I see where you're coming from Jenny. I feel exactly the same. It depresses me to think about the state of the world today. Sometimes I tell myself to close my eyes to it but that's what people did in Europe in the 1930s with horrific...
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Well done you!
Posted on Tue, 27 May 2025
I've caught up and read them all now Jenny and congratulate you on your fine body of work. Well done you! I hope there'll be follow ups following soon.
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Mind
Posted on Sat, 31 May 2025
It's good to remove mundane from the mind. In turn that removes much of the mundane from what lurks outside the mind.
Nice words, and an accurate description of what we're capable of.
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Colours
Posted on Sun, 01 Jun 2025
There's no better balm for the brain than a wild explosion of nature's colours.
Nice one Jenny!
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Poor Jess
Posted on Mon, 02 Jun 2025
A captivating build up. But is this the first part of a bawdy tale of infidelity?
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Worry
Posted on Mon, 02 Jun 2025
If I was of child-bearing age I would be very reluctant to bring offspring into the world that's in the mess that it's in today. I worry myself sick about the future that my grown up children have to look forward to and even more about their...
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The A650
Posted on Fri, 30 May 2025
My money's on this being about Australia. From my own experience I might even venture to say that it's about the land to the east of Spencer Gulf in South Australia. But go on, tell me it's about the A650 between Leeds and Bradford.
Your...
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Firestarter
Posted on Fri, 30 May 2025
I like to think that I'm a flamebearer. But I like the barefoot in the fields and the sinking in the dark bits too. You've brought these comparisions together wonderfully well and made me have a good think.
I'm going out now to buy a box...
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Toes... then and now
Posted on Thu, 29 May 2025
Thank you very much Jessiibear. They're the same toes now but sixty years older. They seem much different, but toes have memories.
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Well done Samson!
Posted on Fri, 30 May 2025
A megalithic dolmen. I've been visiting these places in Ireland all my life and they never fail to mystify me as I try to imagine the human activity that led to their being there. They're always in peaceful and beautiful settings where a good old...
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