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Terence Mullan
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!’
The seasons are indeed a
Posted on Wed, 09 Aug 2023
The seasons are indeed a journey. Our world changes every season but also each day of every season, as each step of any journey might reveal something new.
I like the suggestion that garden snails have found the need to take it easy; to...
Read full commentPosted in Shelter For The Weary
It's great how your poem
Posted on Wed, 09 Aug 2023
It's great how your poem takes us to a place of such peace and serenity having first introduced us to the complete opposite.
The opening lines remind me of the old Hedex painkillers advert where a poor stressed woman going about far too...
Read full commentPosted in wising up
I can understand that Jenny.
Posted on Sun, 06 Aug 2023
I can understand that Jenny. The tropical deluge yesterday aftenoon limited my movements and left me stuck in the house feeling frustrated so I have great sympathy for you and the restrictions that your health has placed upon you. I hope you...
Read full commentPosted in Water Under the Bridge
Animal or human, it's wrong
Posted on Mon, 07 Aug 2023
Animal or human, it's wrong to let them suffer. But with a human, they should have some say in the matter ... long before the time approaches. My kids know what to do with me. I've never been to Switzerland. I'm saving it 'til last.
Read full commentPosted in Two Loved Deeply. Part Two.
'Both have no voice', but
Posted on Mon, 07 Aug 2023
'Both have no voice', but both have minds and both have thoughts.
It must be absolute torture for our elderly people in this situation.
I have known so many and dread the day when it might happen to me.
A very thought-...
Read full commentPosted in Two Loved Deeply. Part One.
I can't describe how I felt
Posted on Sat, 05 Aug 2023
I can't describe how I felt Di. On that day in 2021 when I saw the newspaper article, a few days later when I read what she had written on ABC Tales and then a few weeks after that when her book arrived in the post I felt totally overwhelmed by...
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Hello Di.
Posted on Sat, 05 Aug 2023
Hello Di.
Thanks for your reply to my comment on your poem. It cheered me up a bit.
I am certainly not rich but I know I will be probably be comfortable for the rest of my life, and I consider myself very very lucky to be in that...
Read full commentPosted in 0.1%
It's not poverty but profit
Posted on Sat, 05 Aug 2023
It's not poverty but profit that's the sin that's destroying our world.
In so many places things are no longer allowed to exist if they don't make a profit. I can't understand how in Victorian Britain they were able to open public baths,...
Read full commentPosted in 0.1%
I always feel they need a leg
Posted on Fri, 04 Aug 2023
I always feel they need a leg up to escape the slippery slope. But which leg? So many to choose from.
And I always sing Born Free as I release them and other insects, arachnids and arthropods back into the wild.
It's nice when...
Read full commentPosted in Can't escape!
The only liquid mud that we
Posted on Thu, 03 Aug 2023
The only liquid mud that we have here is the melted chocolate. I've never known a hotter summer than this but at least it reduces my appetite, especially for chocolate.
I enjoy the hot sunny weather but I think I would probably benefit...
Read full commentPosted in Mud fondue!
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