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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!’
Hello Maxine.
Posted on Thu, 22 Jun 2023
Hello Maxine.
This is truly awful news but I feel that the world needs to put the event into perspective.
Hundreds of people remain missing in the aftermath of the capsizing of a ship carrying refugees and migrants off the coast of...
Read full commentPosted in Suleman Dawood.
Had your husband really gone
Posted on Wed, 21 Jun 2023
Had your husband really gone back to find the guidebook that you had dropped or was he just using it as an excuse to hide at the back? Whenever I find myself in a situation that requires facing something fearsome I always say that I'm just...
Read full commentPosted in Boisterous Youth
Enjoy your trip!
Posted on Tue, 20 Jun 2023
I've been to Gibraltar. I went in July 1983. My sister worked in the communications bit of the WRNS and she was stationed there for about a year and a half so when I was on holiday in Morocco I flew over from Tangiers to visit her. It was an...
Read full commentPosted in Round The Rugged Rock
It's terrible that you and I
Posted on Tue, 22 Mar 2022
It's terrible that you and I can see what's happening and what needs to happen but world leaders can't.
Read full commentPosted in Guernica, Stalingrad, Grozny, Aleppo, Mariupol...
Good words and good thoughts
Posted on Tue, 19 Apr 2022
Good words and good thoughts Rhiannon. I can't for the life of me understand why people in the world don't seem to want to change their approach to hate and war.
Read full commentPosted in I’d like to …
When I worked with elderly
Posted on Mon, 18 Apr 2022
When I worked with elderly people I often used to think I could tell as much about a person's life from their hands as I could from their face. Hands that when touched for a second or two would make an old face light up in an act that might be...
Read full commentPosted in These Hands
Doing nothing makes it easier
Posted on Tue, 22 Mar 2022
Doing nothing makes it easier for the aggressor. Sending weapons will prolong the war and cause more death. And what we are watching is not the only war, it's just the most newsworthy one for the time being.
How can the world ever get out...
Read full commentPosted in Guernica, Stalingrad, Grozny, Aleppo, Mariupol...
Our lives are never as
Posted on Tue, 05 Apr 2022
Our lives are never as straightforward as we might wish them to be but they would not be as interesting and colourful if they were. We all need our prism to help us appreciate the wonders that surround us.
An excellent poem, I enjoyed it...
Read full commentPosted in Life Through a Prism
Does blackbird care?
Posted on Thu, 14 Apr 2022
Does blackbird care?
I strongly suspect that the answer is no. All the birds are too busy at this time of year to think about what's going on in the world. I can't imagine that they spend as much time watching us as I do watching...
Read full commentPosted in Passing Time
Hello Rhiannon.
Posted on Fri, 15 Apr 2022
Hello Rhiannon.
I'm just back from a couple of weeks in England so I saw a lot of my two grandchildren. It was brilliant. I try to communicate with them via skype but nothing beats real life for picking up their characteristics and...
Read full commentPosted in When One Is One
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