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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.
If ever I form a punk band,
Posted on Sat, 30 Dec 2023
If ever I form a punk band, with your approval, I'll call it A Box Full of Kale.
I'm glad I was on the right track.
Flogging Molly are a great band, by the way. Here I'm still mourning the recent departure of Shane MacGowan.
Read full commentPosted in Smashing pumpkins
I’ll put a knobbly lorry
Posted on Sat, 30 Dec 2023
I’ll put a knobbly lorry under me in bed …
An effective measure but maybe a bit drastic. I'd have probably gone for a couple of bits of Lego.
Nice poem Rhiannon... entertaining and amusing.
Read full commentPosted in “This night I will …”
Having formerly lived in
Posted on Sat, 30 Dec 2023
Having formerly lived in Wiltshire for many a moon, I would have calculated from your words that you had set this poem in that part of the world, even if you hadn't told me.
Superstition, antiquity and mystery; this is the stuff of the...
Read full commentPosted in The Witches of Long Compton
Chez Ó Maoláin
Posted on Thu, 28 Dec 2023
Yes thank you Di. All is rosy at the moment chez Ó Maoláin.
I hope you are fit and well yourself and you got your son and his illness and his sick note sorted out.
Read full commentPosted in Lingo Bingo
Fiction, yes, but more
Posted on Wed, 27 Dec 2023
Fiction, yes, but more believable than what some people claim to be the truth.
Nice one Paul. Very enjoyable.
Read full commentPosted in The Masque of the Red-Faced Boris
Sorry won’t be enough...
Posted on Tue, 26 Dec 2023
Sorry won’t be enough... exactly!
Their thoughts and prayers worth even less..
Read full commentPosted in Even Croesus Had To Sleep
Snake belts...
Posted on Thu, 21 Dec 2023
I'm often told that I write like an eight-and-a-half-year-old. And I did indeed have a snake belt, but I didn't tell anyone because they were considered sinful.
Many thanks indeed Ewan. I'm delighted.
Read full commentPosted in Children of the Absolution
Nice words Paul. Good on you!
Posted on Wed, 20 Dec 2023
Nice words Paul.
Good on you!
Read full commentPosted in By the Candelight of Saints
You've hit your usual high
Posted on Wed, 20 Dec 2023
You've hit your usual high standard of writing here Jenny.
Very best wishes to you.
Read full commentPosted in Charms Of The Season
That's the answer Ed. I had a
Posted on Tue, 19 Dec 2023
That's the answer Ed. I had a couple of Christmases in Tenerife and one in Marrakech. The Marrakech one was brilliant because there was absolutely no mention of Christmas at all.
Any road, whatever you do this year I hope you enjoy it.
Read full commentPosted in Dreaming of a Grey Christmas
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