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Terence Mullan
During the hot Balkan afternoons it’s grand to lie on the settee with jugs of glacial tea and a summer soundtrack. Joni Mitchell, Joseph Canteloube, Bob Marley and Mississippi John Hurt on scratchy vinyl all sooth as Pavlovian mosquitos snarl from their sides of insect screens.
Those afternoons will be back soon, I hope. I don't care for this having to wear socks nonsense.
Islands
Posted on Sun, 12 Nov 2023
I've often wondered but my guesswork suggests that you're living on a Scottish island. I've visited a few and they've all been gorgeous and overwhelmingly friendly. I expect yours is the same. Jura was probably my favourite.
But your son's...
Read full commentPosted in My Verbal Diary Here
Nice one Mono!
Posted on Sun, 12 Nov 2023
Nice one Mono!
I'm delighted that you got the golden cherries. I hope you'll be saying thank you to your little ratty friends.
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Is this the real life?
Posted on Sun, 12 Nov 2023
It's amazing when I sit down and think about it, how real life events rhyme. If Russia had invaded Iraq in the 1980s instead of Afghanistan my poem would have been ruined.
Thank you very much Di for reading my writing and for your nice...
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You express so many emotions
Posted on Sun, 12 Nov 2023
You express so many emotions in this Mono... sadness, bitterness, resent, humour... and I like your rhyming. Good on you for sharing your feelings in this way.
I was in Kerry myself a few weeks ago, near Glenbeigh. Under the right...
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An apocalypse will come. They
Posted on Sun, 12 Nov 2023
An apocalypse will come. They've been before. The planet survived, by the skin of its teeth, and regenerated. It would probably be much better off without its current dominant species.
In the meantime we all need to be regarded as...
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Harry Potter AND cheeky
Posted on Sat, 11 Nov 2023
Harry Potter AND cheeky bedroom shenanigans in the same story! The nuns'll be after you.
Entertaining stuff. You've got me wondering what'll happen next. I'm just back from a holiday so I'm playing catch up.
Read full commentPosted in May 4th (chapter 3 part 1)
Aaaarrrrgggghhhhh!
Posted on Sun, 12 Nov 2023
Aaaarrrrgggghhhhh!
You have my sympathy.
One of our cats brought a squirrel into the house this morning for its breakfast. If he'd asked I'd have given him a Kinder Bueno. We would have avoided so much mess, so much pain and so...
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Nice one Niamh!
Posted on Sun, 12 Nov 2023
Nice one Niamh!
I've noticed that they like pipe insulation material almost as much as they enjoy a Kinder Bueno.
That's a great story and very amusing, but I'm trying not to think that it really happened.
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As you describe these
Posted on Wed, 08 Nov 2023
As you describe these beautiful wild and natural places I like how you remind us of the contrasting steel and glass that blight so much of our world. A little jolt to my warm, sleepy, autumnal head.
And as the world turns...
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This is full of your usual
Posted on Tue, 31 Oct 2023
This is full of your usual wonderful rhyme and rhythm but the final verse took me by surprise, much like when you're watching something amusing and nice on television and you change channels to suddenly discover the awful news of the day.
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