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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
No Country for Cold Men
Made in the shade of our covered terrace late in the afternoon on one of those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer.
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Benches & Hedges
If you turn off your mind, relax and float downstream you might just find there’s a lot more than botany to discover in a garden, especially in Leeds.
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Crado Come Home
Me and the world around me during the second half of July 2024, in 100 words per day.
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All the President’s Biscuits
Me and the world around me during the first half of July 2024, in 100 words per day.
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Candi Staton, the Sea and Me
Memories of my last night before becoming a salty sea dog. It all happened at the Devon public house in the fashionable Cross Gates district of Leeds, round about the end of August 1976.
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Teds
Posted on Fri, 06 Mar 2026
When I was an Eastender the rhyming slang they used for teeth was Ted Heath. I first became aware of this when a West Ham United fan I had the pleasure of working with would often regale his account of the time he had all his Teds kicked in on...
Read full commentPosted in Teeth Tales - Woohoo Thirty Two
Get well soon!
Posted on Wed, 04 Mar 2026
Oh Jenny, this is awful news.
I was really sorry to learn about your pain and your hospital ordeal. I don’t care much for hospitals. I think they’re the last place you want to be when you’re feeling rough.
I’m glad to see that you’...
Read full commentPosted in My Time In A & E
It's about Achill Island.
Posted on Sun, 01 Mar 2026
It's about Achill Island.
Read full commentPosted in On Achill Island
Brrr!
Posted on Tue, 03 Mar 2026
I do remember it but only vaguely. I was five years old so it was my first year at primary school. I’d already decided that school wasn’t for me, so having to fight off polar bears to get there was the cherry on the arctic roll. I remember the...
Read full commentPosted in When Your Snow is Deeper Than Your Dog
Gaïa
Posted on Tue, 03 Mar 2026
I don’t know how shih tzus would survive without human interference. We have to wash Gaïa’s face every day because she gets so much food (and worse) stuck to the hair on it. We take her to the groomer every six weeks most of the year but in...
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Colin and the Banshees
Posted on Sun, 01 Mar 2026
The Banshees of Inisherin is a peculiar film which some people say is mad and totally unbelievable. But we were on holiday in Mayo when it was released. We saw it at the cinema in Westport so, as we recognised so many of the film locations, it...
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Oileán Acla
Posted on Sun, 01 Mar 2026
Achill (or Oileán Acla) is only an island by the skin of its teeth as there’s a short road bridge crossing Achill Sound (the one Claire Keegan mentioned in the book) but that bridge is the only way in and out and it’s only been there just over a...
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Fluff
Posted on Sun, 01 Mar 2026
He also has a bit of fluff
Her name is Saucy Suzy
So it’s not just the anaesthetic
That leaves him feeling woozy
Read full commentPosted in Teeth Tales – a Song For My Dentist
Lovely news
Posted on Sun, 01 Mar 2026
That's lovely news. Thank you very much IPFN. You've made my Baba Marta.
Read full commentPosted in On Achill Island
Sinéad
Posted on Sun, 01 Mar 2026
Oooh Kat, I’m flattered.
If I’d only heard Sinéad O' Connor say my name I’d have been on a cloud for the rest of my life. I saw her perform live on stage once at the 2014 WOMAD festival near you. She was brilliant. I can’t say she was my...
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