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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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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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It Being December
Dulled A mind follows a rainbow Seven shades of jet In hope to find A faerie shoemaker In wee black jacket and cap Tap-tapping at the soles Of...
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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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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.
Read full commentPosted in Tilly cut loose from the day
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
Now I understand why shopping
Posted on Wed, 14 Feb 2024
Now I understand why shopping takes so long.
I can really imagine this conversation taking place.
Certainly a poem to bring out the smiles.
Read full commentPosted in Do you like this colour?
I try to do this not waking
Posted on Tue, 13 Feb 2024
I try to do this not waking up thing myself, Rhiannon, but I'm always met on the landing by an infestation of cats that all want to dive in to drink running water from the tap in the bathroom washbasin. To me it seems I waste my time.
The...
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Gypsies
Posted on Mon, 05 Feb 2024
Ah now, my heart’s full of special music.
I’ve dozens of favourites and if I listed them all you’d get bored but top of the tree is David Bowie.
I was brought up on Irish music (Dubliners, Clancy Brothers, Planxty, Josef Locke) and...
Read full commentPosted in Jungleland (by Bruce Springsteen) : A (Belated) Review by Alfred Muggins
My parents would drag me and
Posted on Sun, 11 Feb 2024
My parents would drag me and my sister to Crazy Prices in Coleraine every Fiday evening in the late 1960s. I didn't like going but watching the sparks fly from the fingers of the check-out woman as she tapped in the prices on the buttons on the...
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Her mind a circus in a
Posted on Wed, 07 Feb 2024
Her mind a circus in a fishbowl
That's a brilliant line.
Every time, the whole situation is one of mental torture for the poor elderly person and for the family but struggling on without the care home is even harder....
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Poor, poor tadpoles.
Posted on Thu, 08 Feb 2024
We avoid using the car as much as possible and recycle practically everything. Even our cats are secondhand. There's not much more that we can do to save the planet except to sit at home and be depressed about it.
I didn't know about the...
Read full commentPosted in This Sort of Thing - January 2024 - Main Course
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