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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
Song to My Siren
I loved the way we shared that laughter. No other made me laugh like you.
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The Vigorous Fig
But how did you get there? That’s got me perplexed. Oh the wonders of nature, and whatever next?
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Mucky Maureen
A fine poet once wrote… Sometimes we’d go to the Derrisford caff For a bottle of Coke and a bit of a laugh. We’d waste so many afternoons In the...
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Rediscovering Holes
This is a poem I wrote some time ago. Fifty-two years ago to be more precise. I rediscovered it the other day whilst searching in the loft for my...
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Rakia Maria – Part Two of Two
So I said to Priyatelkata ‘Isn’t it lovely?’ and she replied ‘Yes! It’s very lovely.’ Maria added, ‘Life and health!’ in Bulgarian, of course. What...
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New shoots
Posted on Sat, 22 Jun 2024
I regret that I find it impossible to justify or forgive Thatcher's actions. Too many destroyed businesses, broken homes, nervous breakdowns and suicides lay in her wake as well her damage to Britain's industry. Then there was her atrocious...
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I can't fathom it
Posted on Sat, 22 Jun 2024
I can't fathom how she could live with herself at all. She brought so much misery.
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The same wavelength
Posted on Sat, 22 Jun 2024
Thatcher was an awful woman but at least she knew what she was doing.
What you have written matters a lot to me too. It's good to be on the same wavelength.
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Brave and brilliant
Posted on Tue, 18 Jun 2024
There's a lot of raw emotion in these words. Good on you for being able to express yourself so well in this brave and brilliant poem.
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Grand
Posted on Mon, 17 Jun 2024
William Butler Yeats is alive and well and living in Northampton!
Grand words Paul.
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Homeless
Posted on Mon, 10 Jun 2024
In Bulgaria (and in all countries that follow Eastern Orthodox Christianity) Easter fell on the first weekend in May this year so we were virtually guaranteed hot sunny days. Local boys Saints Cyril and Methodius like it that way.
Please...
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Unputdownable
Posted on Sun, 09 Jun 2024
But, scientifically speaking, summer doesn't even start for another twelve days. You'll have no books left unread for the real autumn. Maybe you'll find some unputdownable cleaning products.
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Rusty nails
Posted on Sun, 09 Jun 2024
Aww Jenny, I'm really sorry to hear that you're feeling rough and I hope you're quickly feeling better.
A rusty nail, by the way, is the name of a cocktail made from whiskey and Drambuie, so maybe you need to swallow a few more.
It...
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Easter Rising
Posted on Thu, 06 Jun 2024
Poor Alfred. As if careworkers didn't have enough on their plates without having to sort out the Middle East crisis. It says in the Bible somewhere that we should cease working when we get to age fifty, so if Alfred sticks with that he'll be...
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The webuybooks thing
Posted on Thu, 06 Jun 2024
Ah, the webuybooks thing! I was surprised to get as much as 50p for some of fhe stuff I was re-homing. Kids books mostly that they left behind when they flew the nest. But some lovely old hardback jobs that my Ma left behind weren't even...
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