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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 Targovishte Quandary - Part 2 of 3
My dark and disturbing encounter in Eastern Europe continues.
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The Targovishte Quandary - Part 1 of 3
My dark and disturbing encounter in Eastern Europe.
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The Treadmills of My Mind
It’s that ole devil called insomnia again, where I’m entertained by the dark columns of the world’s problem page.
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Patrick Kavanagh and Me
I’ve got to give a bit of credit for the first line of this to the late Mr Patrick Kavanagh of 62 Pembroke Road, Dublin. It’s from his poem Canal Bank Walk , written in 1954.
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My Verbal Diary Here
I couldn’t match the style of Jenny Skinner’s diary entries but I hope this helps to cheer her up a bit while she’s feeling under the weather.
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Poor Jess
Posted on Mon, 02 Jun 2025
A captivating build up. But is this the first part of a bawdy tale of infidelity?
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Worry
Posted on Mon, 02 Jun 2025
If I was of child-bearing age I would be very reluctant to bring offspring into the world that's in the mess that it's in today. I worry myself sick about the future that my grown up children have to look forward to and even more about their...
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The A650
Posted on Fri, 30 May 2025
My money's on this being about Australia. From my own experience I might even venture to say that it's about the land to the east of Spencer Gulf in South Australia. But go on, tell me it's about the A650 between Leeds and Bradford.
Your...
Read full commentPosted in Road Ribbons to Forever
Firestarter
Posted on Fri, 30 May 2025
I like to think that I'm a flamebearer. But I like the barefoot in the fields and the sinking in the dark bits too. You've brought these comparisions together wonderfully well and made me have a good think.
I'm going out now to buy a box...
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Toes... then and now
Posted on Thu, 29 May 2025
Thank you very much Jessiibear. They're the same toes now but sixty years older. They seem much different, but toes have memories.
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Well done Samson!
Posted on Fri, 30 May 2025
A megalithic dolmen. I've been visiting these places in Ireland all my life and they never fail to mystify me as I try to imagine the human activity that led to their being there. They're always in peaceful and beautiful settings where a good old...
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Peat Bog Feet
Posted on Thu, 29 May 2025
Thanks Di, it's reassuring to know that my feet resemble those of thousands of years old peat bog men. Perhaps I should change my socks more often.
I'd imagine that the water in the rivers and streams where you live is peaty and brown too...
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I'm no expert, but...
Posted on Thu, 29 May 2025
I'm no expert at this but I just write all my stuff in Word documents ensuring that the formatting is constant throughout. Then, after saving them, I copy and paste onto a blank page on the ABC site. It seems to work.
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The women!
Posted on Fri, 23 May 2025
Where I live now, the dark days of Communism pushed women out to work and the feeling of importance and value to the community has stayed with them long after the fall of the regime. Many businesses here are run by women and in many walks of life...
Read full commentPosted in A Victorian Lady's Memoirs Part Four
Pint
Posted on Thu, 22 May 2025
Now if I'd been arriving so far ahead of schedule I'd have sent a text message to let the people know, or just gone for a pint to while away the time until I was expected.
How times change.
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