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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
My Verbal Diary Here
I couldn’t match the style of Jenny Skinner’s diary entries but I hope this helps to cheer her up a bit while she’s feeling under the weather.
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Yantra Mantra
Oh Yantra, river of my dreams...
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Three O’Clock Sheep Club
A crowded but lonely place.
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Me and My Muezzin
When I was a lad I worked on big ships. Here I describe the Suez Canal stretch of a sea passage from Quebec City in Canada to Colombo in Sri Lanka round about 1977. Our ship was loaded with a bulk cargo of poverty relief grain financed by the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA). Some of my writing is an embellishment of the truth and a little bit of it is the result of pure imagination, but this poem is as near to the truth as I could get whilst attempting to remain poetic.
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Jacques in the Box
A mysterious woman’s trunk of treasures.
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App attack!
Posted on Fri, 16 Aug 2024
A seasoned (or marinated) diarist, who was probably me, once wrote...
With a book in my hand and demonic android device in my bin, that’ll be the day that I die. And as I’m lowered into a hole amongst nettles where my bones will enrich...
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Too BIG
Posted on Thu, 15 Aug 2024
You've really captured the attitude of all those small people with BIG cars who are collectively a BIG irritation, a BIG nuisance on the roads and a BIG factor when considering damage to the environment.
The BIG question is why do they...
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Bobby's Golden Cherries
Posted on Thu, 15 Aug 2024
Ah. that's great news. I'm delighted. Thanks very much Ewan.
It's taken a while but the pound note that I gave to Bobby has turned out to be a good investment.
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Bobby's brother
Posted on Thu, 15 Aug 2024
Many many thanks for that Jenny.
But we mustn't forget that Bobby's brother John was quite entertaining too.
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That's entertainment!
Posted on Thu, 15 Aug 2024
If I worked for Leeds City Council I'd have set Bobby on as a performer of alternative street theatre. I met him several times and he was always very entertaining, though he didn't know it.
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The Elves
Posted on Mon, 12 Aug 2024
I can never resist the tales of the raggle taggle gypsies or the faerie folk. Helplessly I'm drawn in by your words.
Great writing Jenny, as ever.
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Put on your red shoes and dance the blues
Posted on Wed, 14 Aug 2024
Oh Paul, I was just about to book a flight to England to visit my kiddies and their kiddies but your skilled description of a dsytopian state has alerted dormant brain cells and saved me the £150 that Easyjet were asking for.
Apparently...
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Banitsa
Posted on Fri, 02 Aug 2024
I say this with all due respect to Alfred's views and personal opinions...
We can get croissants here in Bulgaria. We can also get baked beans, Yorkshire tea and cans of John Smith's bitter. But we don't want them. We are here to merge...
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It wasn't all grim
Posted on Sat, 27 Jul 2024
It wasn't all grim Di. I'm glad I did it but I'm also glad that I stopped when I did. Though in hindsight it was much harder readjusting to a life back on land than it had been to adjusting to a life on the ocean wave in the first place. I've got...
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A message from Priyatelkata to Alfred
Posted on Fri, 02 Aug 2024
Priyatelkata (my partner) is French and, like her compatriots, she doesn't do things by halves. Our breakfasts at home to launch a day can be as impressive as an Olympic Games opening ceremony but without the dancers in their ridiculous costumes...
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