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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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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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Keeping Teeth and Kidneys for Beginners
According to my team of researchers, Bulgaria has the cheapest beer in the world. At least one bottle of rakia, that well known cure-all,...
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Before The Year Is Gone
Around New Year and before Lent, the Kukeri walk and dance through villages to scare away evil spirits with their elaborate costumes and the sound of multiple large bells attached to their belts. They are also believed to provide a good harvest, health, and happiness to the village during the year. The Kukeri tradition has been practiced since Thracian times, predominantly in Bulgaria but also in other Balkan countries.
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Haemorrhoid Android
As long as I have known my dear Priyatelka, she has radiated great warmth and kindness. She is a charming woman who loves life, adores children,...
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The Chips at Twerton Park
When Raleigh’s ship came into port the gentry gathered round To see the cargo in its hold of veggies small and brown. But little did the people know...
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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...
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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.
Read full commentPosted in The Moon Maiden
“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...
Read full commentPosted in More Elaines
I always enjoy
Posted on Mon, 11 Mar 2024
I always enjoy the way you write about the nature around us Jenny. You see things that I don't... until you point them out to us.
A lovely poem.
Read full commentPosted in Inspired By Mother Nature
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