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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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Hotel Mediterraneo
Sultry and still the sweet night air. Latin music. Crickets chirping. Like a favela in Rio or anywhere But for the sound of Geordies burping. For el...
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Lazing On a Thursday Afternoon
Caught in a lull between two storms, I’m stuck in an uneasy stay-in-the-house kind of frame of mind, reluctant to open the back door even though the...
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Take It or Leave It (with music video)
I first posted this poem on the ABCTales website in November, during the week when our Inspiration Point was ambivalence. Please forgive me if you...
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Copse and Robbers
No Bulgar children, women or men Can recall the day exactly when They first strode into forested lands With an axe on a shoulder or a saw in a hand...
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The Friday Pazar in Gorna Oryahovitsa
Coffee imbibed, strong and black. Old men sit and talk and cough and hack Beneath a fig tree even older. Tobacco smoked, even stronger To blunt the...
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Yes, we decided to just be
Posted on Tue, 06 Feb 2024
Yes, we decided to just be friends.
Read full commentPosted in This Sort of Thing - January 2024 - Starter
A mesmerising display indeed.
Posted on Mon, 05 Feb 2024
A mesmerising display indeed.
Such displays aren't seen so much these days. I remember watching them as a child as they almost obliterated Belfast City Hall and the surrounding buildings. A fantastic feature of nature to see but...
Read full commentPosted in A Murmuration of Starlings
I'm fully aware that Bruce
Posted on Mon, 05 Feb 2024
I'm fully aware that Bruce Springsteen is a well-meaning, nice fella who wrote good music with clever lyrics which often questioned the establishment, for people of my generation. I take my hat off to the man. But I'm afraid I found it all very...
Read full commentPosted in Jungleland (by Bruce Springsteen) : A (Belated) Review by Alfred Muggins
Facebook needs an 'absolutely
Posted on Wed, 31 Jan 2024
Facebook needs an 'absolutely horrified' emoji to click on these days Di. And if yer man Zuckerberg says there's no room for it, they could take away the smiley face one which has outserved its usefulness.
Read full commentPosted in It’s the little things
Nice words Rhiannon. You
Posted on Wed, 31 Jan 2024
Nice words Rhiannon. You really bring out the colours of a month that many folks might consider a bit dull.
Read full commentPosted in January Skies
It's good to have nice
Posted on Tue, 30 Jan 2024
It's good to have nice memories Dougie, but it's good to make new memories too. There's nothing we can do about what lies ahead of us and we can't change the past. It's best to live for the moment, as your poem suggests.
I hope the old...
Read full commentPosted in Aubade
Tea in shops other than tea shops.
Posted on Sat, 27 Jan 2024
Hello Jenny.
I'm really pleased that you enjoyed reading this. However I get the impression from your words that you haven't been reading. I hope you're not unwell but if you are I hope that you're feeling a lot better very soon.
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Read full commentPosted in The Great Falafel Kerfuffle
Farsi Photos
Posted on Sat, 27 Jan 2024
It delights me that you find my writing so interesting Di, so thank you very much for that.
And, in the hope that I'm not twisting the ABC rules and regulations, here's a link to the photographs that I took while I was in Iran.
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Read full commentPosted in The Great Falafel Kerfuffle
This is a really enjoyable
Posted on Sat, 27 Jan 2024
This is a really enjoyable read, even though it left me feeling sorry for Lucy with the terrible black pudding complaint, poor girl.
Read full commentPosted in Filthy Old Machines
Slithery squelchiness
Posted on Sat, 27 Jan 2024
I really like the slithery squelchiness of this. Great words for a January walk.
Read full commentPosted in Above Weobley
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