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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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Lactobacillus Bulgaricus or Bust!
Other yoghurts are available, though scientists have proved that our Bulgarian yoghurt is by far the best in the world.
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This Sort of Thing - March 2024 - La finale
Words of comfort, words of peace. Words to fend off angry geese.
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This Sort of Thing - March 2024 - L'ouverture
Words in papers, words in books. Words once sung by Elkie Brooks.
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More Elaines
Elaine and I barely spoke to each other but memories of this gruff, no-nonsense woman have stayed with me for fifty years.
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This Sort of Thing - February 2024 - Last Orders
Written at the rate of 100 words per day, this is the second part of my account of an arduous journey through February via the middle of nowhere.
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Crazy and the Wonder Dog
Posted on Mon, 17 Nov 2025
Many thanks for that GlosKat. I'll pass the message on.
Would you like to sponsor them? For just £10 a month you'll receive photographs and regular updates of their wellbeing together with birthday and Christmas cards. For exactly the...
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Crazy world
Posted on Fri, 14 Nov 2025
Thanks very much Jenny. Your comments are always very interesting and, as I've said before, I'd love it if you wrote more about your younger days.
Baker Street was a brilliant track but Gerry Rafferty's Get It Right Next Time is...
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dnled trump
Posted on Thu, 13 Nov 2025
PLFC... Plovdiv Lokomotiv Football Club
Plovdiv's a beautiful ancient city. It must be a wonderful place to live.
Through the rainy sheets I see an orange blob making its way up the High Road.
I...
Read full commentPosted in Twenty Minutes at the Village Bus Stop
Fleetwood Mac
Posted on Mon, 10 Nov 2025
When I lived in Chippenham I used to regularly go with my kids to watch Bath City FC playing football at their ground in the Twerton district of the city.
During those matches I talked to and befriended many of the natives, one of which...
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Cheese
Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025
I was led to believe that it was something to do with a shortage of parmesan cheese over there and it stood for Make America Grate Again.
But we do need more accordions, and harmonicas.
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Hats
Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025
There's money to be made selling baseball hats bearing the words 'Make me great again, though I always have been'.
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Old Scotsmen
Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025
I've never met the Old Man of Storr (your description of him suggests he's quite a character) but I have met the Old Man of Hoy who seems like a similar sort of old man. They must get together to discuss which Scottish island they're going to...
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Lesley Garrett and Billy the Kid
Posted on Mon, 10 Nov 2025
A funny, sad and exhilarating journey from the bar to motherhood. Good on you for keeping those things and telling us about them and surviving Lesley Garrett.
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Brutal
Posted on Thu, 30 Oct 2025
The Celtic cross was an incredible piece of sculpting but I struggled to enjoy it because it was a memorial to a landowner (the Earl of Leitrim) who was an altogether unpleasant man though not as bad as his father who was assassinated by locals...
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Roots
Posted on Tue, 21 Oct 2025
I've moved around a lot in my life Jenny, so I've never been sure where home was. Family members had always told me that Ireland was home and when I go there it feels like that's true, so that's a big part of the reason I get the lumps. But...
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