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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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Back in the M.A.F.F. - Part One of Two
It was the first time I’d ever been asked the question ‘Are you allergic to silage?’ at a job interview. I couldn’t give a definitive answer because...
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Miss Australia 1978 – Part Four of Four
Kev sat down on my settee with a beer from my fridge to watch the racing results on my television. Jim in Glasgow had paid for all of these things,...
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Miss Australia 1978 – Part Three of Four
From the cockpit, Captain Australia (the world’s first marsupial superhero) announced that we would be landing in Naples, Muscat, Bombay, Singapore...
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Miss Australia 1978 – Part Two of Four
Unfortunately, I didn’t have my mobile phone with me because at that stage of the rampant global advance in technology they had yet to be invented,...
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Miss Australia 1978 – Part One of Four
If we were allowed to make up our own birth signs I reckon I’d probably go for Hermes (not herpes) because in Greek mythology, he was the god of...
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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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The Gandhi family
Posted on Wed, 05 Jun 2024
Joan would have been dismayed if Mahatma Gandhi had made the pancakes. Surely that was the work for Mrs Gandhi.But maybe there wasn't a Mrs Gandhi to cook for him, which would explain why he was so thin.
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The mother-in-law
Posted on Wed, 05 Jun 2024
We have an English friend here who does Sudoku. She admits that sometimes it's a bit of a waste of time but says at least it gives her something to think about while she's talking to her mother-in-law on Skype.
Les Dawson lives on!
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Curry tales
Posted on Wed, 05 Jun 2024
Ah, thanks Jenny.
Strange that both you and Insert have said that Joan reminds you of your ex-mothers in law. Maybe they were all the same person.
My dad used to love curry but no other adults in the family did and it was assumed...
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Books like that
Posted on Tue, 21 May 2024
With books like that around, the world has no place for all the artificial intelligence nonsense that's going on.
But will we get to read what appears on its blank pages?
A great idea and a great read.
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Special time of day
Posted on Mon, 27 May 2024
Great words to suit this special time of day. Calming moments.
I really liked your
A smile to melt the cold stare
of all the hardest days
as that's exactly how the dusk has made me feel down the...
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