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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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Cheese and Onion Tuesday
Have you ever been contaminated on the way to your workplace?
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This Sort of Thing - January 2024 - Main Course
Written at the rate of 100 words per day, this is the second part of my account of a journey from the settee to the corner of our kitchen where the kettle is. At this point the kettle is switched on. I only wish, during that icy month, I could have said the same about myself.
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This Sort of Thing - January 2024 - Starter
Written at the rate of 100 words per day, this is the first part of my account of a journey from the settee to the corner of our kitchen where the kettle is.
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Cherries and Dahlia Petals
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Twelve, the final part.
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The Gaddafi Effect
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Eleven (with photographs, though they're the same photographs as in Part Ten, so you may have seen them before).
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Outlet Village
Posted on Fri, 27 Jun 2025
You've brought back memories Jenny. I remember shopping for shoes with my kids in the Swindon Outlet Village. We always had to stand and gawp at the big 'City of Truro' steam locomotive in the food hall for twenty minutes to keep my son happy as...
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Palestine
Posted on Sun, 22 Jun 2025
There are many things that we should remember about Israel's occupation of Palestine since 1948, and about Britain's occupation of it for thirty years before that. But we don't. This problem is more than a century old.
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Hurt
Posted on Fri, 27 Jun 2025
These are brilliant words so filled with sadness. I'm very sorry that it's been necessary for you to write them and I sincerely hope the hurt subsides.
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Fighting fit
Posted on Fri, 27 Jun 2025
Yes Di, I'm absolutely tip top now. Many thanks for asking.
And I hope you're fit and well yourself.
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Palestine
Posted on Sun, 22 Jun 2025
History twists and turns but I doubt there's ever been a reversal of circumstances quite like what we're seeing now. And we are seeing it now. We've no choice. It's everywhere we look.
I've tried to look away but I can't. I've read books...
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Glasto
Posted on Tue, 24 Jun 2025
There's little that can beat the atmosphere of a good music festival. I've been to a few but never Glastonbury. I used to go to the WOMAD festival every year near Malmsbury near where you live. It was all what they call 'World Music' which I love...
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The Goddess of Death
Posted on Tue, 24 Jun 2025
I'm delighted to see how quickly you've acclimatised to life in Somerset Paul. I vaguely remember there being a pub in Taunton called the Goddess of Death. Their hemlock flavoured crisps are to die for.
Excellent writing! I eagerly await...
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Home á loam
Posted on Tue, 17 Jun 2025
Sitting in my shed and writing, I find, are the two great healers in life. I wish there was a light in my shed so that I could go there to write, thereby killing two earwigs with one stone.
I once read somewhere on the internet that...
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Sleep
Posted on Sun, 22 Jun 2025
Thanks very much for your words Kilb50.
The good thing about not being able to sleep is that I don't have the nightmares.
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Hoover hysteria!
Posted on Wed, 11 Jun 2025
Ah, thank you for that. I'm glad it made you smile.
I've always thought that a person could never have too many hoovers. And I've always felt terribly sorry for No-vac Djokovic.
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