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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.
My stories
Hot Cross Bun Blues
If only they had a branch of Sainsbury’s in the Mississippi Delta.
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Nellie the Devilment
How smiling eyes and a Derry accent can get you almost anything you want.
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Poking James MacGuigan’s Cow
This is an old bit of writing from the days when I was still nervous about farm animals. I’ve done a bit of the digital remastering because I was never really happy with it and I thought that while I was fiddling about I would change the subject from a pig to a cow, thus meeting the dictates of this week’s Inspiration Point. So you’d better read it because if you don’t I’ll set James MacGuigan on you.
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Trip of a Lifetime
A poem inspired by a terrible incident my partner and I witnessed on the four kilometre journey into our local town this morning.
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Scorn Not His Djezve
A tongue in cheek assessment of the misnomer that making good coffee is complicated.
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Auto Rector
Posted on Fri, 03 Jan 2025
I'd offer to help but I've never found the switch to turn it on. Not within ABC anyway.
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Cabbages etc
Posted on Thu, 02 Jan 2025
Ah, you made me do a LOL. I'll try to restrict the conversation to teeth and cabbages next time I'm there.
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Teeth
Posted on Thu, 02 Jan 2025
But Di, doesn't everybody know that BDSM stands for Bulgarian Dental Surgeons Ministry? I could never imagine that it might mean anything else. I have questions for the dentist the next time I see him.
The dogs were all fairly small but...
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Apologies
Posted on Sun, 22 Dec 2024
I think I only wrote my comment yesterday, Jenny, or the day before so it is I who should be apologising.
Good luck for further hip recovery and I hope the inspiration returns soon.
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Good health!
Posted on Sun, 22 Dec 2024
That's absolute top notch good news dear Jenny. I'm delighted to read that you're back on your feet and back to normal. I'm sure you'll enjoy those walks in the forest and woods all the more. I'm looking forward to reading the poetry that they'll...
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Yews and pews
Posted on Fri, 27 Dec 2024
a scarlet dawn beckons
Those words can mean so much at this time of year.
Nice one Paul. I hope the festivities in your house were all you had hoped they would be, and more.
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Acme or acne?
Posted on Sat, 21 Dec 2024
Thanks Di and sorry for taking so long to respond to your comment.
I too have sometimes thought about how lucky I was that there were no taxis waiting for me on that occasion. There have been significantly more times in my life where a...
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A piece of cake
Posted on Sat, 21 Dec 2024
In the summertime, with my own car to Sofia and the tram from Manchester airport to my daughter's house, the journey's a piece of cake. It's when someone puts icing on the cake that the problems kick in.
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Guiding light
Posted on Fri, 15 Mar 2024
This made me smile. I regret not having read it when you posted it back in ages ago.
I've been invited to read some of my stuff at a poetry night in February. I've been to one of these sessions before but didn't participate as I was just...
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Dilation of de nation
Posted on Sun, 15 Dec 2024
I can't understand why David Attenborough has never taken his film crew to the Tommy Wass on Dewsbury Road. A pub famed for its great range of pupil dilation.
Keep well Jenny!
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