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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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Kazakh Stan and Kazakh Olly
Proving to the world that there was more to my life than Kazakhstan dancing ladies during the final sixteen days of July.
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The Evolution of the Lettuce
Proving to the world that there was more to my life than lettuce during the first fifteen days of July.
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Farzaneh’s Song
For my dear friend Farzaneh in Iran, and for all the lovely people I met when she was guiding me round her beautiful country in 2011.
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The Way We Heard - All Time Low
In August 2010 the number one record in the UK singles chart was the very aptly titled ‘All Time Low’, by the Wanted.
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The Way We Heard - Killing in the Name
In December 2009 the number one record in the UK singles chart was Killing in the Name, by the Californian band, Rage Against the Machine. It was a protest song about police brutality, systemic racism, and state abuse of power, though this story is about buying chocolate at a London tube station. It also became my favourite Christmas song.
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E.R.N.I.E.
Posted on Fri, 14 Aug 2026
Thank you Kat. But what was the other inspiration point? I think I’ve covered ‘early’ in the tale.
And it was definitely the Premium Bonds and E.R.N.I.E. (Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment) that was in the news as I slithered...
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Wild things
Posted on Sat, 08 Aug 2026
There must be a number of different strains of Lyme disease because I hear of people having so many different symptoms. Mine has been in no way painful apart from when the vertigo bit made me fall over a couple of times and hurt my knees.
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Twizzle
Posted on Tue, 21 Jul 2026
Kat, had the boy ever heard of the Woodentops and Twizzle? In my romantic encounters that has always been the first question I have asked on a first date.
One of the greatest disappointments in my life occurred in a trendy nitespot in...
Read full commentPosted in The Way We Heard: Three Coins In The Fountain (1954) (Pt.2)
Things Ain’t What They Used to Be
Posted on Tue, 21 Jul 2026
When I was a kid we weren’t really poor but we were never anywhere near to being rich. My dad (a former Irish navvy) always worked away, constantly changing jobs within the building industry and my mother worked long hours in a fruit and veg...
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The Moon
Posted on Thu, 16 Jul 2026
This is a very interesting and amusing way of looking at the climate change problems the world is facing. I hope they don't start poking about looking for minerals on the moon. There's already enough discarded rubbish up there from all those...
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Sadness
Posted on Mon, 13 Jul 2026
Your poem helped Paul, as I read it with sadness. We were at the vets today with one of our dogs. Time's running out for her. These things are never easy.
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8 out of 10 snails prefer Wiskas
Posted on Mon, 13 Jul 2026
I probably understated the scale of the snail problem. It’s not quite so bad this year but in previous years there must have been tens of thousands of them. I googled them and it said they live off dead or decaying vegetable matter. Quite...
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I love these lines Jane...
Posted on Fri, 03 Jul 2026
I love these lines Jane...
a dog is like a holiday;
you must control the urge to taint the end with sadness
because a dog would never do this.
A lovely poem altogether, but you hit the nail...
Read full commentPosted in When a dog knows too much
Spit it out
Posted on Mon, 22 Jun 2026
And sometimes the other person in the relationship is doing exactly the same thing. It's so funny how we don't talk anymore. It's so sad how we daren't listen. So many things missed because of a you never said.
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Plantar dermal fissures and onychomycosis.
Posted on Thu, 07 May 2026
Back in the days when I was the sort of person who left the house each morning to earn a shilling as a domiciliary chiropodist, I took comfort from the fact that there’d never be a computer programme or robot capable of taking my job. And cracked...
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