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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 Pig
There have been many doors in my life, some real and some metaphorical, but on a quiet little farm in one of Ireland's beautiful Glens of Antrim, one in particular stood out and the memory of it will stay with me forever.
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I Fought the Law
Apart from having a wee behind a bin down a back alley in Middlesbrough when I was eight years old and a tiny bit of embezzlement around six years...
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A Hot Little Model from France
The kitchen took on the appearance of an overfilled Greetings from Murmansk snow globe as the door flew open and in gushed a torrent of winter’s...
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For Yer Women, the Women
All the year they scrub the homes From Skibbereen to Portglenone. They work their fingers to the bone, Afraid to pause to moan or groan. They milk...
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Priyatelka, Turlough and the House of Cats
She was sleeping in a gas station, south from here on route E85. I asked the pump attendant, ‘You think that little feline’s still alive?’ He said ‘...
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The length of a stork's life
Posted on Tue, 09 Apr 2024
The length of a stork's life depends upon what you feed it on. They seem to have a fondness for butter substitutes.
There's an absolutely ancient one here with a Geordie accent that mutters on constantly about pink/purple hair, painful...
Read full commentPosted in This Sort of Thing - March 2024 - La finale
The streets of Malki Chiflik
Posted on Tue, 09 Apr 2024
Ah, that's great news Drew. There'll be dancing in the streets of Malki Chiflik tonight.
Thank you very very much.
Read full commentPosted in This Sort of Thing - March 2024 - La finale
Papa was a soothsayer.
Posted on Sat, 06 Apr 2024
Aren't all fathers soothsayers with the words 'told you so' poised on the tips of their tongues even if they hadn't told us so? I think my kids might say I'm guilty of that myself.
An entertaining look at the Gilded Cage. Nice one Jenny...
Read full commentPosted in In A Troubled Land
And Smokey sings...
Posted on Sun, 24 Mar 2024
And Smokey sings...
Now, there's some sad things known to man
But ain't too much sadder than
The tears of a clown when there's no one around
When I was a kid clowns made us laugh but these days their...
Read full commentPosted in Swan Song
I wasn't picking...
Posted on Sun, 17 Mar 2024
Oh no P4AT. I wasn't picking you up on your writing.
I was merely remarking upon the harshness of the mom's critique. Some people (especially mothers) can't seem to get their heads round how difficult it can be to make a few lines rhyme....
Read full commentPosted in "Unwanted Magic" 5
I recently watched a series
Posted on Thu, 21 Mar 2024
I recently watched a series on Netflix called 'The Fall' where a senior police detective (Gillian Anderson of X Files fame) trains herself to keep a dream diary that she makes entries in whenever she wakes up in the middle of the night. I thought...
Read full commentPosted in What's Not Written
I really like your final
Posted on Wed, 20 Mar 2024
I really like your final verse.
There's a big moon in the sky tonight (it was full last night) and we've a large patch of bamboo growing in our garden. I'm going out to have a look. If I come back with a neonate it's all your fault.
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“It’s not a very good rhyme;
Posted on Sun, 17 Mar 2024
“It’s not a very good rhyme; it doesn’t even rhythm,” the mom critiqued.
It's a good job she's not an ABC editor.
Read full commentPosted in "Unwanted Magic" 5
Nothing beats a forest for
Posted on Sun, 10 Mar 2024
Nothing beats a forest for showing off the fine features of the seasons as they pass. Year round entertainment on your doorstep.
Read full commentPosted in "Good Morning"
Pubs, music, football, Asian caffs, people's attitudes..
Posted on Fri, 15 Mar 2024
Pubs, music, football, Asian restaurants (which were never called restaurants in my day), people's attitudes to life, a notable absence of world wars and the planet itself which I've wandered about feeling quite safe... I've thoroughly enjoyed...
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