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Terence Mullan
Down the years I have lived in many places and I have done many jobs. Now I live in Bulgaria and the only work I do is tending to my lovely garden when the sun is shining and scribbling away in my big book of writing stuff when it is not.
I may have left it too late in life to become a famous writer or celebrated gardener but I will persevere anyway. These are the things that occupy me in a seemingly effortless and satisfying way.
My stories
The Friday Pazar in Gorna Oryahovitsa
Coffee imbibed, strong and black. Old men sit and talk and cough and hack Beneath a fig tree even older. Tobacco smoked, even stronger To blunt the...
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Take It or Leave It
I love to see the sun come up through early morning mist. I quite enjoy a pint or two without ever getting pissed. I like to walk around the town, my...
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Chocolate, Tobacco and Horse Muck
Each day, as the factory whistle blew at noon, he dashed leisurely home from work on his bicycle to have his dinner because dinner was always eaten...
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When It Gets Late Earlier
As my hemisphere gets darker The men who wind up the world Decide to make it darker still Just days before my birthday When I always wish for more...
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Following Magda
It seemed like night although it was only about three o’clock in the afternoon as I approached the little old twin towns of Bernkastel-Kues which...
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Hello Di.
Posted on Wed, 12 Jan 2022
Hello Di.
Nice though it is, the photo doesn't really do justice to the view we had of the hives. We just had to stop to take a look at the illuminated bees, even though darkness was falling on an icy day and we were keen to be getting...
Read full commentPosted in I Fought the Law
But that's life! Luckily we
Posted on Wed, 12 Jan 2022
But that's life! Luckily we had our bowl of cherries with us.
Read full commentPosted in I Fought the Law
I love to hear stories of
Posted on Wed, 12 Jan 2022
I love to hear stories of homeless animals finding permanent homes. Your story describes really well the emotions of all concerned including the pups themselves as they were seperated and then adopted.
I also enjoyed the way you brought to...
Read full commentPosted in How I Came to Meet Eric
My grandmother told me that
Posted on Tue, 11 Jan 2022
My grandmother told me that when she was a young girl her only Christmas present would be a pomegranate.
A different time when good food was a luxury.
Read full commentPosted in Two Generations. Two Fruits.
Thanks Michael for your kind
Posted on Tue, 11 Jan 2022
Thanks Michael for your kind words.
Good luck with your chickens but please remember that man cannot live on old, rustic boiled eggs alone.
Read full commentPosted in A Hot Little Model from France
Perhaps things would have
Posted on Tue, 11 Jan 2022
Perhaps things would have gone better for Emerson if he had written ELP with his pebbles instead of HELP. I hope that after the blows to his head from the rock wielding baboons he didn't need Brain Salad Surgery....
Read full commentPosted in Mumbo Jumbo Island
Isn't love wonderful?
Posted on Mon, 10 Jan 2022
Isn't love wonderful?
And your poem captures that feeling so well.
I enjoyed this so I read it twice.
Good on you.
Read full commentPosted in Divine
I would have thought that any
Posted on Mon, 10 Jan 2022
I would have thought that any woman in the court who valued the fact that her head was attached to her shoulders by means of a neck would be better off with Alfred than with the Henry. Monarchs are too high maintenance to get into a relationship...
Read full commentPosted in Time Travel To The Court Of Old Henry VIII : Henry's Infatuation and the Religious Earthquake! By Mr A.N.Muggins (Sir Alfred Muggins, soon to be Lord Muggins!) Part 1
I like this Rhiannon.
Posted on Mon, 10 Jan 2022
I like this Rhiannon.
It's concise with a good rhythm which makes it flow off the tongue when read.
Read full commentPosted in Harness!
So sad to have lost a loved
Posted on Sat, 08 Jan 2022
So sad to have lost a loved one, or to have lost contact with one who has been loved.
This line ...
Until you no longer remember me in your prayers
oozes sadness.amongst your beautifully written words.
Read full commentPosted in unkissed
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