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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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Black Grape Cat Disorder
Osem our cat is black and white He’ll eat whatever comes in sight He eats all day and he eats all night No bounds exist to his appetite He eats...
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Our Man in Golubac
As sweat ran down my temples the man at the other end of the telephone line told me that he spoke Bulgarian, which came as a massive relief to me...
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Back in the M.A.F.F. - Part Two of Two
My dear colleague, Colin the Contortionist, really was called Colin but he was employed by the M.A.F.F. more as a Scientific Officer than as a...
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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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Embarrassing
Posted on Fri, 05 Jul 2024
Priyatelkata is half Algerian. She will haggle over the number of corn flakes in her breakfast bowl.
In market situations I feel half proud and half embarrassed. When I try to haggle she just laughs.
Read full commentPosted in My Döner and Chide
Advice for first time Guinness carriers
Posted on Fri, 05 Jul 2024
In five easy steps:
- Arrange the pints of Guinness on the bar top in a triangle formation with two near to you and one a bit further away.
- Place the thumb and index finger of each hand around the two pints of Guinness nearest
...
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I can really do it, I can really move...
Posted on Tue, 09 Jul 2024
Yes! All lovers make
Make the same mistakes
As me and you
Bob Dylan, eat your heart out!
Read full commentPosted in Juke Box Jive
Wanderer
Posted on Mon, 08 Jul 2024
I'm very sorry to hear about your dyslexia... I wasn't poking fun.
I'm pleased to hear you've wandered a bit. They're all nice countries that you've visited, even if they don't have Maltesers.
But don't stop now. The world's your...
Read full commentPosted in Malta. Part Nine.
The other forty
Posted on Mon, 08 Jul 2024
Four times fifteen percent is only sixty percent. I hope the other forty wasn't the best bit.
Most countries in southern and eastern Europe don't have homeless people. It's because accommodation is cheaper than in the west and it's in our...
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Brecon Beacons
Posted on Sat, 06 Jul 2024
That's a beautiful part of the world you were in Rhiannon.
Twelve years ago, when I was living in Wiltshire, I went there with our local walking group. We climbed Fan y Big, Cribyn and Pen y Fan, though it wasn't all climbing. I vaguely...
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Greatly appreciated
Posted on Fri, 05 Jul 2024
Thanks very much Jane. Your words are greatly appreciated.
I'm just a bit disappointed in myself for only writing a couple of thousand words after doing more than forty years of research.
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My place
Posted on Tue, 02 Jul 2024
I only moved to Bulgaria because I'd run out of things to write about the Wiltshire drizzle.
Благодаря ти много Юън.
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Hawkwind
Posted on Mon, 01 Jul 2024
Hello Jenny.
The garden's tidy now but very bare. A rake, a shovel and a wheelbarrow was all we needed to do the job.
I hope Hawkwind fans won't be disappointed to learn that Priyatelkata's follow up single was Pasta Dutchie From...
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Yes, ex Prime Minister
Posted on Thu, 27 Jun 2024
Nice one Paul. Your coincidental things would all be funny if they weren't such a scarily accurate description of the awful reality. And Sunak's still got a week to go so there's a strong possibility you'll have enough material for episode...
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