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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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Johnny Ten Levs vs Jack Daniels
It’s that one hundred words thing again, covering the first half of March when I was mostly in Bulgaria.
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Streets of Stoke Newington
Possibly the most tenuous link ever to a weekly inspirational point (this week it’s toast) and a fond recollection of happy times in the mid-1980s living with ‘her indoors’ in a North London oasis of social harmony.
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The Archers in Cyrillic Script
The events of February 2025 (the second part) in my neck of the area of land, smaller than a forest, that is covered with growing trees, described using my usual one hundred words per day method.
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Please Tell Him That I Said Hello
The events of February 2025 (the first part) in my neck of the copse, described using my usual one hundred words per day method.
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The Lighthouse Keeper of Ras Gombo
It’s a well-known fact that seafarers staring at the sea during the hours of darkness can be hypnotised by the calming waves and the bioluminescence as their ship cuts through the water. In their half-awake half-asleep state of mind, they feel an unexplainable urge to walk to the railings, climb over and jump in. I once experienced this peculiar feeling whilst on watch on a bulk carrier sailing south through the Red Sea towards the Bab al-Mandab Strait and the Indian Ocean beyond.
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Aye, imagine being at Michael
Posted on Sun, 12 Dec 2021
Aye, imagine being at Michael Bublé's house at Christmas. You'd need a lot of Advocaat to survive that.
Read full commentPosted in Saints and Sinners - A Christmas Fable (Part One of Two)
I read news like this almost
Posted on Tue, 07 Dec 2021
I read news like this almost every day. It's sickening that an uncaring world can push people to the point where they have to risk their lives in this way. How bad must the life be that they are trying to escape from for them to accept that...
Read full commentPosted in The Journey. Part Two.
For years I worked with
Posted on Wed, 27 Oct 2021
For years I worked with elderly people and seeing them caught by dementia used to break my heart. Your words describing your Mum's situation have brought back so many memories of complete strangers who I came to love before slowly but ultimately...
Read full commentPosted in Blessings Dear Late Mum And Dad
I love reading diaries.
Posted on Sat, 23 Oct 2021
A long, long time ago I worked on ships. Working and living with people in such close proximity for six to eight months at a time whilst thousands of miles from home made me feel I got a deep understanding of, and closeness to, colleagues that I...
Read full commentPosted in That Was Genesis
A nice bit of secrecy.
Posted on Tue, 12 Oct 2021
I really enjoyed your poem Rhiannon. It hadn't crossed my mind that adults speaking in code in front of their kids was a form of keeping things secret. I remember it being a struggle with my kids, and then an even bigger struggle when they...
Read full commentPosted in Little ears are listening!
Balm for the brain
Posted on Sun, 13 Jul 2025
The only answer is videos of fluffy kittens falling asleep, off settees and into kitchen sinks. If national leaders watched them as often as I do then I'm sure the world be a much safer and happier place.
Read full commentPosted in And Yet I Still Watch
Dreaminess
Posted on Thu, 10 Jul 2025
Can you die inside a dream?
That's something I've always wondered too. I've sometimes dreamt that I was facing death in a dream and knew that if I didn't escape the danger I might not wake up, but I always have done... so far. But...
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Well done and well said!
Posted on Mon, 07 Jul 2025
I'm very pleased that this was the pick of the day. Congratulations on your golden cherries and well done for speaking your mind.
Read full commentPosted in Fifty Shades of Death
Mike vs Phil
Posted on Wed, 09 Jul 2025
Living less than a kilometre from us here in Bulgaria there's an eccentric reclusive Englishman called Michael Burberry who once had an affair with Phil Collins' wife and caused the break up of his marriage.
Here's a link to a Daily Mail...
Read full commentPosted in Maybe.
Flora and Fauna
Posted on Wed, 09 Jul 2025
According to Google Lens, the flower is from a plant called Woolly Foxglove, Rusty Foxglove or Grecian Foxglove and its correct botanical name is Digitalis Lanata. We found them growing wild so we're going back this week to see if the seeds are...
Read full commentPosted in If I Were a Fish
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