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I have 245 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 1044236 times and 350 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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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.

1026 of my comments have received 1112 Great Feedback votes

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Kids... absolutely precious...

Posted on Wed, 21 Feb 2024

Kids... absolutely precious... they distract the mind from everything that's wrong with the world.

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Posted in Tilly cut loose from the day

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The quizzical look...

Posted on Sat, 17 Feb 2024

The ghosts won't go away, but thankfully neither will the face in the photograph. It never could.

I can see that quizzical look on her face. I've seen it many times.

And I can see the need for the dreamtime gun. 

A deeply...

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Posted in Killing the killers

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Thanks very much for your

Posted on Thu, 15 Feb 2024

Thanks very much for your kind words Penny4AT.

I hope the paper from your factory tasted better than our crisps.

 

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Posted in Cheese and Onion Tuesday

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Now I understand why shopping

Posted on Wed, 14 Feb 2024

Now I understand why shopping takes so long.

I can really imagine this conversation taking place. 

Certainly a poem to bring out the smiles.

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Posted in Do you like this colour?

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I try to do this not waking

Posted on Tue, 13 Feb 2024

I try to do this not waking up thing myself, Rhiannon, but I'm always met on the landing by an infestation of cats that all want to dive in to drink running water from the tap in the bathroom washbasin. To me it seems I waste my time.

The...

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Posted in Feeling to find it

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Gypsies

Posted on Mon, 05 Feb 2024

Ah now, my heart’s full of special music.

I’ve dozens of favourites and if I listed them all you’d get bored but top of the tree is David Bowie.

I was brought up on Irish music (Dubliners, Clancy Brothers, Planxty, Josef Locke) and...

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Posted in Jungleland (by Bruce Springsteen) : A (Belated) Review by Alfred Muggins

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Her mind a circus in a

Posted on Wed, 07 Feb 2024

Her mind a circus in a fishbowl

That's a brilliant line.

Every time, the whole situation is one of mental torture for the poor elderly person and for the family but struggling on without the care home is even harder....

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Posted in The Home

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Poor, poor tadpoles.

Posted on Thu, 08 Feb 2024

We avoid using the car as much as possible and recycle practically everything. Even our cats are secondhand. There's not much more that we can do to save the planet except to sit at home and be depressed about it.

I didn't know about the...

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Posted in This Sort of Thing - January 2024 - Main Course

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Thanks very much airyfairy.

Posted on Thu, 08 Feb 2024

Thanks very much airyfairy.

My 100 words a day thing keeps my brain ticking over. It's a bit like a sodoku in words rather than numbers. So even if nobody reads it, it's worth having a crack at. 

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Posted in This Sort of Thing - January 2024 - Main Course

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When I read your comment, Di,

Posted on Thu, 08 Feb 2024

When I read your comment, Di, I thought your cat had been complaining about chalkdust. We have dust but it's nothing to do with chalk.

Our weather is unbelievably warm at the moment which is not typical. Our winters are much milder than...

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Posted in This Sort of Thing - January 2024 - Main Course

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