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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
It Being December
Dulled A mind follows a rainbow Seven shades of jet In hope to find A faerie shoemaker In wee black jacket and cap Tap-tapping at the soles Of...
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Hotel Mediterraneo
Sultry and still the sweet night air. Latin music. Crickets chirping. Like a favela in Rio or anywhere But for the sound of Geordies burping. For el...
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Lazing On a Thursday Afternoon
Caught in a lull between two storms, I’m stuck in an uneasy stay-in-the-house kind of frame of mind, reluctant to open the back door even though the...
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Take It or Leave It (with music video)
I first posted this poem on the ABCTales website in November, during the week when our Inspiration Point was ambivalence. Please forgive me if you...
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Copse and Robbers
No Bulgar children, women or men Can recall the day exactly when They first strode into forested lands With an axe on a shoulder or a saw in a hand...
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I can really do it, I can really move...
Posted on Tue, 09 Jul 2024
Yes! All lovers make
Make the same mistakes
As me and you
Bob Dylan, eat your heart out!
Read full commentPosted in Juke Box Jive
Wanderer
Posted on Mon, 08 Jul 2024
I'm very sorry to hear about your dyslexia... I wasn't poking fun.
I'm pleased to hear you've wandered a bit. They're all nice countries that you've visited, even if they don't have Maltesers.
But don't stop now. The world's your...
Read full commentPosted in Malta. Part Nine.
The other forty
Posted on Mon, 08 Jul 2024
Four times fifteen percent is only sixty percent. I hope the other forty wasn't the best bit.
Most countries in southern and eastern Europe don't have homeless people. It's because accommodation is cheaper than in the west and it's in our...
Read full commentPosted in Malta. Part Nine.
Brecon Beacons
Posted on Sat, 06 Jul 2024
That's a beautiful part of the world you were in Rhiannon.
Twelve years ago, when I was living in Wiltshire, I went there with our local walking group. We climbed Fan y Big, Cribyn and Pen y Fan, though it wasn't all climbing. I vaguely...
Read full commentPosted in Bannau Brycheiniog**
Greatly appreciated
Posted on Fri, 05 Jul 2024
Thanks very much Jane. Your words are greatly appreciated.
I'm just a bit disappointed in myself for only writing a couple of thousand words after doing more than forty years of research.
Read full commentPosted in My Döner and Chide
My place
Posted on Tue, 02 Jul 2024
I only moved to Bulgaria because I'd run out of things to write about the Wiltshire drizzle.
Благодаря ти много Юън.
Read full commentPosted in Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
Hawkwind
Posted on Mon, 01 Jul 2024
Hello Jenny.
The garden's tidy now but very bare. A rake, a shovel and a wheelbarrow was all we needed to do the job.
I hope Hawkwind fans won't be disappointed to learn that Priyatelkata's follow up single was Pasta Dutchie From...
Read full commentPosted in Holiday on Ice
Yes, ex Prime Minister
Posted on Thu, 27 Jun 2024
Nice one Paul. Your coincidental things would all be funny if they weren't such a scarily accurate description of the awful reality. And Sunak's still got a week to go so there's a strong possibility you'll have enough material for episode...
Read full commentPosted in Boris and the Hustings
In good hands
Posted on Mon, 24 Jun 2024
I'm glad to hear you're in good hands Jenny and heading in the right direction. Get well soon but don't rush it.
My very best wishes to you.
Read full commentPosted in His Flight
Great words and great rhymes
Posted on Tue, 25 Jun 2024
Great words and great rhymes Rhiannon.
You got me singing...
I saw a peanut stand, heard a rubber band
Read full commentAnd seen a needle wink its eye
But I be done seen about everything
When I see an elephant fly
Posted in Extreme differences!
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