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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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Time (Clock of The Heart)
‘That one’s five hundred quid mate, but I could probably let you have it for four eighty,’ said the very gaunt looking man pointing to the clock that...
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They Think I’ve Gone Berserk (with music video)
This is a poem I wrote about forty years ago. I was working as a waiter in a cocktail bar at the time. My dear friend Anthony Healey found the faded...
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The Merry Moth of December
I think that in a previous life I may have been a moth. Although I’ve never eaten a woolly jumper or bashed my brains out on a car windscreen, I can’...
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Christmas With Monsieur Bublé
A portfolio of lively tunes A carousel and gay balloons To start, the handsome Gaul festoons Season’s greetings most profound To all of those who’ve...
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Fantasies of Enya (with music video)
I'd like to be the owner of a butcher's shop in Newry. I'd like to shake my hips about and sing like Billy Fury. I'd like to be a cosmonaut like...
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Elaines were educators
Posted on Fri, 15 Mar 2024
Elaines were educators in social etiquette. I'm sure learnt more from my Elaine than I did from my chemistry teacher.
And thank you for the cornelian cherries.
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Rousing is the perfect word
Posted on Mon, 04 Mar 2024
Rousing is the perfect word for this time of year.
Nice one Jenny! You made me want to sing.
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Protests
Posted on Sun, 03 Mar 2024
I don't know the answer to your question Di. I think maybe the EU is making it more difficult for farmers generally in an attempt to support other businesses such as supermarket chains. These demonstrations are going on all over Europe,...
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100 Words
Posted on Sun, 03 Mar 2024
Many thanks for your kind words Penny4AT.
I understand how little time the workers have left at the end of a day but this 100 word thing usuarlly only takes me ten or fifteen minutes. I often write it on my phone while I'm having a coffee...
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Fisher folk
Posted on Sun, 25 Feb 2024
Hats off to Mary Kelynack, and to you too Jenny for writing such an interesting, educational and enjoyable poem.
I've got...
Do do do. Come on and do the polka.
Do do do. Wet fish across the floor.
...
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I didn't know he was dead. I
Posted on Fri, 23 Feb 2024
I didn't know he was dead. I should pay more attention to what's going on.
Elkie Brooks is still with us though. She had a great voice when she was with Vinegar Joe.
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Ah, yes! I changed a couple
Posted on Fri, 23 Feb 2024
Ah, yes! I changed a couple of the words, partly because of the copyright thing and partly because our Johnny doesn't really run.
I didn't know that Robert Palmer was from Yorkshire. Born in Batley, according to Wiki. I wonder why he never...
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Kids... absolutely precious...
Posted on Wed, 21 Feb 2024
Kids... absolutely precious... they distract the mind from everything that's wrong with the world.
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The quizzical look...
Posted on Sat, 17 Feb 2024
The ghosts won't go away, but thankfully neither will the face in the photograph. It never could.
I can see that quizzical look on her face. I've seen it many times.
And I can see the need for the dreamtime gun.
A deeply...
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Thanks very much for your
Posted on Thu, 15 Feb 2024
Thanks very much for your kind words Penny4AT.
I hope the paper from your factory tasted better than our crisps.
Read full commentPosted in Cheese and Onion Tuesday
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