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The toothless old widow who sits beneath the pomegranate tree in the square confided in me, ‘Snow and ice in April will hurt the tender shoots of our hostas but they’ll return even stronger under the Balkan sunshine’s healing rays.’ The old man sitting beside her with a cigarette lodged neatly in one of the gaps in his front teeth casually added, ‘Hosta la vista, baby!’

735 of my comments have received 771 Great Feedback votes

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No pain, no gain... as they

Posted on Tue, 26 Sep 2023

No pain, no gain... as they say. You may not have gained the piercing that you had hoped for but you did gain a great story to tell about yourself in your younger days. Short tales like this can reveal so much about a person's character. I always...

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Posted in Misguided In The Early 90s

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Your great use of

Posted on Sat, 02 Sep 2023

Your great use of onomatopoeiae makes the description of dramatic weather all the more dramatic. 

And you sneaked in before me with my idea for writing, though I didn't really know where to start. It seems like here my onomatopoeiae have...

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Posted in The sounds of rain

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Knowing that, Coral, cements

Posted on Fri, 01 Sep 2023

Knowing that, Coral, cements it in my heart and my head forever. Tx

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Posted in You Never Said

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A wonderful poem for making

Posted on Thu, 31 Aug 2023

A wonderful poem for making me think seriously about so many things. 

But also this bit...

Grandfather says,

see how I can take out my teeth

and pop them back in again,

has made me,...

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Posted in The First Sorrow

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Ah, now I've got it. There's

Posted on Wed, 30 Aug 2023

Ah, now I've got it. There's really nothing to translate.

This is very clever. I don't know much about Latin but Google Translate does seem to recognise the words as being written in Latin.

What a wonderful discovery.

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Posted in A riddle?

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It''s incredible how vets can

Posted on Wed, 30 Aug 2023

It''s incredible how vets can turn up unexpectedly when needed. Do they really go everywhere with a termometer and a small animal cage? 

A great poem dear Jenny the lifesaver.

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Posted in Feathers Without Hope

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Oh, Niamh, I thought you

Posted on Tue, 29 Aug 2023

Oh, Niamh, I thought you might be. It's good that you can write about it. If it helps, don't stop.

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Posted in 'Painkiller'

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There are so many conflicting

Posted on Tue, 29 Aug 2023

There are so many conflicting opinions and methods of treatment within the world of mental health. It seems like some of the most vulnerable people can become guinea pigs. 

Julie's story is a very sad one made worse by the standard of some...

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Posted in 'Painkiller'

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The simplest moments can

Posted on Wed, 30 Aug 2023

The simplest moments can often be the most precious.

A lovely memory indeed.

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Posted in a morning to remember

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The same happened to us once.

Posted on Tue, 29 Aug 2023

The same happened to us once. A big brown cow eating our lovely flowers. Our five week old kitten was at the kitchen window screaming the place down as he tried to get out to kill the beast. The woman who owned the cow gave us a right telling off...

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Posted in Jasus

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