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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 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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Take It or Leave It
I love to see the sun come up through early morning mist. I quite enjoy a pint or two without ever getting pissed. I like to walk around the town, my...
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Chocolate, Tobacco and Horse Muck
Each day, as the factory whistle blew at noon, he dashed leisurely home from work on his bicycle to have his dinner because dinner was always eaten...
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When It Gets Late Earlier
As my hemisphere gets darker The men who wind up the world Decide to make it darker still Just days before my birthday When I always wish for more...
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Following Magda
It seemed like night although it was only about three o’clock in the afternoon as I approached the little old twin towns of Bernkastel-Kues which...
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Life started to become
Posted on Thu, 08 Feb 2024
Life started to become difficult, Jenny, with the introduction of colour tellies and decimal coinage. Where I lived our whole world was in black and white and nobody had any money so it all took a lot longer to understand.
Thanks for...
Read full commentPosted in This Sort of Thing - January 2024 - Main Course
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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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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