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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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This Sort of Thing - December 2023 - Side B
Stand aside Tristram Shandy, this is The Life and Opinions of Turlough Ó Maoláin, Gentleman. Compiled during the late part of December 2023, at a rate of one hundred words per day.
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This Sort of Thing - December 2023 - Side A
Stand aside Tristram Shandy, this is The Life and Opinions of Turlough Ó Maoláin, Gentleman. Compiled during the early part of December 2023, at a rate of one hundred words per day.
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Goody Two Shoes
It’s hard to find something to give up if you’re doing nothing bad in the first place.
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Lingo Bingo
An explanation of the labour of love of my life that may have started out a long time ago as a labour of clinging on to my life.
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Children of the Absolution
A recollection of thoughts I had during my childhood in the 1960s. I intended writing them down long before now but I was always terrified to death at the thought of the potential consequences.
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Guiding light
Posted on Fri, 15 Mar 2024
This made me smile. I regret not having read it when you posted it back in ages ago.
I've been invited to read some of my stuff at a poetry night in February. I've been to one of these sessions before but didn't participate as I was just...
Read full commentPosted in More n'24
Dilation of de nation
Posted on Sun, 15 Dec 2024
I can't understand why David Attenborough has never taken his film crew to the Tommy Wass on Dewsbury Road. A pub famed for its great range of pupil dilation.
Keep well Jenny!
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Our Bowerbird
Posted on Sun, 15 Dec 2024
That's incredible Jenny. Thanks for sharing.
The video clip reminds me of a pub I used to frequent in Leeds.
I love your accompanying poem too. The words offer a great description of the bird and its habits.
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Clocks
Posted on Tue, 10 Dec 2024
But my birthday's always the week after the clocks have changed. It's the worst possible time of the year. I don't feel like celebrating anything until they've been changed back again in March; that vernal clock change day in itself being a...
Read full commentPosted in A Tale of Two Balkan Cities
Birthday legalities
Posted on Tue, 10 Dec 2024
If all that changing your birthday to a different date malarkey was legal, I would choose to have mine on a summer's day. I think I'd like to be celebrating on the birthday of William Butler Yeats, which is 13th June, though he was born a...
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Goran Bregovic
Posted on Sun, 08 Dec 2024
Thanks for reading, Jenny, and for your greatly appreciated comment.
I'm glad you liked the music too. Goran Bregovic is a legend in Eastern Europe and I've been to see him perform live many times. For me he's been a gateway to the...
Read full commentPosted in The Meeting of the Waters
Meteorological bits
Posted on Sat, 07 Dec 2024
Storms stir up all sorts of emotions Jenny and I love the way your words have shown how you can make the most of them. I used to love them. Each with their own individual characteristics and always exciting to watch. I'm sorry to bang on about...
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Crackers!
Posted on Wed, 04 Dec 2024
With your festive words I think you've covered all the features of a classic Christmas, Paul.
Except for a Boxing Day football match, perhaps!
Very well done. It's a Christmas cracker!
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Hip op hooray!
Posted on Tue, 03 Dec 2024
Those words 'new lease of life' are music to my ears. I'm delighted for you Jenny.
I'm also delighted that you and your neighbours didn't give in to the developers. I remember when I first found out about the existence of land banks, where...
Read full commentPosted in John's Conscience
More Johns
Posted on Tue, 03 Dec 2024
Nice one Jenny!
Your first two paragraphs could be about me, apart from the 'offered a substantial amount of money' bit.
But fair play to that man John! The world needs more Johns.
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