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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
A Hare's Breath 2 - The Bicycle
The thoughts of a wee boy in a wee town in the North of Ireland in the late 1960s and his love for a white Morris 1000 van and hares and bicycles.
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A Hare's Breath 1 - The Van
The thoughts of a wee boy in a wee town in the North of Ireland in the late 1960s and his love for a white Morris 1000 van and hares.
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When Botev Peaked
Oh Mother Bulgaria!
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The Strange Case of Dr Gunchev and Crazy Ludo
The usual rigmarole. Half a month (this bit being the latter half of November) described using precisely one hundred words per day.
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Papa’s Got a Brand New Chainsaw
The usual rigmarole. Half a month (this bit being the first half of November) described using precisely one hundred words per day.
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Leeches
Posted on Wed, 18 Dec 2024
The effects of war, pollution, drought, disease and starvation inflict much more harm on the world and its population than potentially life-saving vaccines do, but many governments and the people who vote for them seem to be able to overlook that...
Read full commentPosted in Why I'm a consistent and unabashed 'anti-vaxxer'
Righto Di...
Posted on Mon, 16 Dec 2024
Righto Di, thank you.
It was the memory of Julia that brought me to ABC but that memory is the most difficult thing I have ever attempted to write about, especially when taking into consideration the awful circumstances of her unnecessary...
Read full commentPosted in Velvet Goldmine
The Balkans
Posted on Wed, 13 Nov 2024
There are several sides to this story CM. In the past I've spoken to Croats and Bosnians about those wars but this was the first time I'd had a conversation with a Serb. None of them have ever had anything to say on the subject that wasn't...
Read full commentPosted in Boško’s Clouds
Wooooooo!!!!
Posted on Mon, 30 Sep 2024
Do creatures of the night perceive apparitions?
What a wonderfully thought provoking question. Is it only humans that have a fear of the dark? Could it be that ghosts are scared of humans and that is why we rarely see them?...
Read full commentPosted in Visions Carried On The Wind
Can Can
Posted on Thu, 15 Aug 2024
Having cans lifted from you carry out is no joke. I feel for you CM. I feel it in my fingers. I feel it in my toes.
Read full commentPosted in Benches & Hedges
Migration
Posted on Mon, 05 Aug 2024
I particularly like your
“Send a gunboat”
to repel rubber-gum-boats,
When did the rules change so that people were expected to remain for the whole of their lives in the country in which they were born? I expect it...
Read full commentPosted in Boats
Depressingly good
Posted on Sat, 22 Jun 2024
This is a depressingly accurate account of the mess that the world is in at the moment, and nobody seems to be doing anything about putting it right. We can recycle our empties, and turn our lights off and we can struggle to shelter our kids from...
Read full commentPosted in "For, being green, there is great hope" (quote from Shakespeare's HENRY VI PART 2, ACT 3 SCENE 1)
Blooms
Posted on Mon, 08 Apr 2024
Ah, thanks Di.
Our blossom comes in waves. The first, and most impressive, was about a month ago when the wild plums were in flower (we call them djanki and you call them mirabelles), which was followed by the pears and now as they fizzle...
Read full commentPosted in This Sort of Thing - March 2024 - L'ouverture
Shockingly lovely.
Posted on Fri, 16 Feb 2024
A great reminder that what we have contains so much more beauty and tranquilty than the homes of much of the rest of the world. I wish that wasn't true but it is. Your words soften the reader's frame of mind before the contrast and the harsh...
Read full commentPosted in Two kinds of crying : 15th February 2024
Ukraine
Posted on Mon, 12 Feb 2024
Before I write anything else I want to stress that I absolutely do not condone Putin's actions in Ukraine.
However, here in Bulgaria we have refugees from Ukraine, but they are different to the Ukraine refugees that have fled their...
Read full commentPosted in After Russian Rain (A Postscript from Moscow)
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