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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
Poking James MacGuigan’s Cow
This is an old bit of writing from the days when I was still nervous about farm animals. I’ve done a bit of the digital remastering because I was never really happy with it and I thought that while I was fiddling about I would change the subject from a pig to a cow, thus meeting the dictates of this week’s Inspiration Point. So you’d better read it because if you don’t I’ll set James MacGuigan on you.
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Trip of a Lifetime
A poem inspired by a terrible incident my partner and I witnessed on the four kilometre journey into our local town this morning.
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Scorn Not His Djezve
A tongue in cheek assessment of the misnomer that making good coffee is complicated.
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Water Under the Bridge
Crossing chasms to the past whilst not going out.
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Song to My Siren
I loved the way we shared that laughter. No other made me laugh like you.
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Sober inebriatist, drunken teetotalist
Posted on Tue, 23 Jul 2024
Excellent words containing a lot of very well thought out rhyme that frantically jumps off the page to emphasise the utter desperation.
Silent Death recaps his ink... a brilliant penultimate line!
I'm not sure if enjoyed is...
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The hole in the ground
Posted on Mon, 22 Jul 2024
Our garden is indeed very big. Friends tell us it is more like a park than a garden. We have hundreds of trees so maybe to be buried under one of the smaller walnuts will be a possibility, though I'd prefer the big ancient one that I often sit...
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Roots
Posted on Mon, 22 Jul 2024
It's emotional blackmail. The vets know that people with raw emotions will find the money.
We just bury ours in the garden. There's even a space for me. It's just beside the redcurrant bushes. I would have preferred to be beneath the...
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Sheds
Posted on Sun, 21 Jul 2024
I had thought about writing a story just like yours but it would have meant sorting our shed out a bit first which would be quite a task so I'll just read yours.
Intriguing stuff it is too!
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Eric's PTSD
Posted on Fri, 19 Jul 2024
I think grumpy old Eric had PTSD long before the outbreak of World War Two and the Icelanders only shot him (no one else, as he could recall) so that he'd go home. During the years that I was living near to Bath the majority of the buses there...
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Cheryl
Posted on Fri, 19 Jul 2024
Is it Cheryl from Bucks Fizz?
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Ticket trouble
Posted on Fri, 19 Jul 2024
Back in the day the perfomers would employ their own people to distribute and sell their tickets but now they keep their overheads down by washing their hands of the responsibility and handing it over to an agency. Inflated prices and unrealistic...
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Wealthy mates
Posted on Fri, 19 Jul 2024
Aww, have a heart! I'm sure the people at the ticket agency were only trying to fit in with their mates at all the other big organisations that have shown total disrespect for their customers in order to accumulate vulgar amounts of wealth.
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The Mad Monk
Posted on Thu, 18 Jul 2024
It would be terrible of me to take any credit for the words of the poem about the Mad Monk.
I offer my sincere apologies to Alfred and to any reader who feels they might have been misled.
Clicking on the link will reveal the...
Read full commentPosted in Pearly Gates : A Tour of Russia’s Hell by Alfred N.Muggins Part 3
Euro 28
Posted on Thu, 18 Jul 2024
I'm quietly confident that the final of the Euro 28 tournament will be Malta vs Bulgaria.
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