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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
Poking James MacGuigan’s Pig
There have been many doors in my life, some real and some metaphorical, but on a quiet little farm in one of Ireland's beautiful Glens of Antrim, one in particular stood out and the memory of it will stay with me forever.
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I Fought the Law
Apart from having a wee behind a bin down a back alley in Middlesbrough when I was eight years old and a tiny bit of embezzlement around six years...
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A Hot Little Model from France
The kitchen took on the appearance of an overfilled Greetings from Murmansk snow globe as the door flew open and in gushed a torrent of winter’s...
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For Yer Women, the Women
All the year they scrub the homes From Skibbereen to Portglenone. They work their fingers to the bone, Afraid to pause to moan or groan. They milk...
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Priyatelka, Turlough and the House of Cats
She was sleeping in a gas station, south from here on route E85. I asked the pump attendant, ‘You think that little feline’s still alive?’ He said ‘...
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Fingers crossed
Posted on Sun, 22 Dec 2024
I've always wondered what went on at those sessions in the company of the radiographer. I love the way you've described this very private event so openly in a poem.
My fingers are crossed for you too.
Read full commentPosted in Mammogram
Good health!
Posted on Sun, 22 Dec 2024
That's absolute top notch good news dear Jenny. I'm delighted to read that you're back on your feet and back to normal. I'm sure you'll enjoy those walks in the forest and woods all the more. I'm looking forward to reading the poetry that they'll...
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Yews and pews
Posted on Fri, 27 Dec 2024
a scarlet dawn beckons
Those words can mean so much at this time of year.
Nice one Paul. I hope the festivities in your house were all you had hoped they would be, and more.
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Acme or acne?
Posted on Sat, 21 Dec 2024
Thanks Di and sorry for taking so long to respond to your comment.
I too have sometimes thought about how lucky I was that there were no taxis waiting for me on that occasion. There have been significantly more times in my life where a...
Read full commentPosted in The Day of the Drone - Luton to the Rescue
A piece of cake
Posted on Sat, 21 Dec 2024
In the summertime, with my own car to Sofia and the tram from Manchester airport to my daughter's house, the journey's a piece of cake. It's when someone puts icing on the cake that the problems kick in.
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Guiding light
Posted on Fri, 15 Mar 2024
This made me smile. I regret not having read it when you posted it back in ages ago.
I've been invited to read some of my stuff at a poetry night in February. I've been to one of these sessions before but didn't participate as I was just...
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Dilation of de nation
Posted on Sun, 15 Dec 2024
I can't understand why David Attenborough has never taken his film crew to the Tommy Wass on Dewsbury Road. A pub famed for its great range of pupil dilation.
Keep well Jenny!
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Our Bowerbird
Posted on Sun, 15 Dec 2024
That's incredible Jenny. Thanks for sharing.
The video clip reminds me of a pub I used to frequent in Leeds.
I love your accompanying poem too. The words offer a great description of the bird and its habits.
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Clocks
Posted on Tue, 10 Dec 2024
But my birthday's always the week after the clocks have changed. It's the worst possible time of the year. I don't feel like celebrating anything until they've been changed back again in March; that vernal clock change day in itself being a...
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Birthday legalities
Posted on Tue, 10 Dec 2024
If all that changing your birthday to a different date malarkey was legal, I would choose to have mine on a summer's day. I think I'd like to be celebrating on the birthday of William Butler Yeats, which is 13th June, though he was born a...
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