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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 - April 2024 - The Sporophyte Stage
Eat your words but don't go hungry. Words can make you grow rotundly.
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This Sort of Thing - April 2024 - The Gametophyte Stage
Words to tell you what to do. Words as strong as Irn Bru.
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Turn and Face the Strange
Contemplating life in a world where virtually everything’s becoming virtual.
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Catatouille
Discovering that meat isn’t necessarily murder.
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Lactobacillus Bulgaricus or Bust!
Other yoghurts are available, though scientists have proved that our Bulgarian yoghurt is by far the best in the world.
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Barbarians of the backwoods
Posted on Tue, 12 Aug 2025
I think it's predominantly people who live there that call it the greatest nation on earth. The rest of us can see through the ever thinning walls of their bubble. Even before Trump arrived on the scene it was a country that had issues with its...
Read full commentPosted in The Greatest Nation On Earth! by Alfred N.Muggins
For Coral
Posted on Fri, 29 Oct 2010
Oh Di, choosing Coral's poem as Pick of the Day today is an absolutely beautiful thing to do.
I know she'd have been delighted.
Read full commentPosted in St Ives, Summer 1993
Beautiful
Posted on Mon, 11 Aug 2025
What a beautiful thing to post. I love the fact that you have such good memories of her.
Good on you ScoZen.
Read full commentPosted in For a Fan Coral
She casts spells
Posted on Thu, 07 Aug 2025
That's quite a story Jenny. It's great to think how your imagination must have been running wild and how you managed to write it all down.
I loved the lines
said to me: “she casts spells and is
crazy – think I've...
Read full commentPosted in Woodsman And The Medicine Woman.
Towers
Posted on Thu, 07 Aug 2025
Many hundreds of humans in a vertical stack
is a wonderful way to describe those towers that surrounded me during the days of my youth too. And those comprehensive schools for the honour of which the kids who attended them would...
Read full commentPosted in The Vale - Chapter 5
Yay!
Posted on Tue, 05 Aug 2025
Yay! Nice one Di,
Read full commentPosted in before Floris
Salty
Posted on Wed, 06 Aug 2025
Until the lunchbox appeared you were edging towards blues singer Robert Johnson's meeting at the Crossroads.
But what first caught my eye was
A down-and-out salty sea dog
which made me wonder if you were writing...
Read full commentPosted in The Last Temptation of Kieran Murphy
My thoughts
Posted on Tue, 05 Aug 2025
Your poetic description of the beautiful nature around you at this time of year and the situation in Palestine are each at opposite ends of the spectrum of what's exists daily n my mind Di. It increases the need for we in safer countries to...
Read full commentPosted in before Floris
A Year in Pavlikeni
Posted on Mon, 04 Aug 2025
Unfortunately they don't sell Leeds United strips for cats here, and she wouldn't be seen dead in a Locomotiv Gorna Oryahovitsa shirt, so there might be a bit of a wait for the photographs. Meanwhile we're in talks with the vet for a tattoo....
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Them ol' school recorder lessons blues
Posted on Thu, 31 Jul 2025
Walt was (and is) a great bloke, as was (and is) his brother and their two families. My head is still full of their little sayings and jokes that enriched my teenage years. And Sheila, who is no longer with us, couldn't have been a better mother-...
Read full commentPosted in While My Guitar Teacher Gently Weeps
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