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Terence Mullan
During the hot Balkan afternoons it’s grand to lie on the settee with jugs of glacial tea and a summer soundtrack. Joni Mitchell, Joseph Canteloube, Bob Marley and Mississippi John Hurt on scratchy vinyl all sooth as Pavlovian mosquitos snarl from their sides of insect screens.
Those afternoons will be back soon, I hope. I don't care for this having to wear socks nonsense.
We can never pin down the
Posted on Thu, 16 Dec 2021
We can never pin down the point in our lives when we became old. I felt old when I turned thirty, when my kids were born, when I turned sixty, when my grandkids were born ... and I'm even older now. It happens a bit more every day but we never...
Read full commentPosted in The Old Guy
Our only conifer is a fir
Posted on Wed, 15 Dec 2021
Our only conifer is a fir tree at the far end of the wild bit of our garden. It's been there for four years now and it looks beautiful. We bought it from a market stall round about this time of year. It looked very sad so we bought it to give it...
Read full commentPosted in Pine Tree (in Home and on Heath)
Well written words, as always
Posted on Thu, 16 Dec 2021
Well written words, as always.
I've always wondered why a caterpillar should have so many more legs than the moth or butterfly that it turns into. But now I know. So thank you.
Read full commentPosted in 16
At the foot of the stairs in
Posted on Tue, 14 Dec 2021
At the foot of the stairs in my Nan’s house, a dark brown knobbly object hung by a piece of thread from a rusty drawing pin pushed into the off-white emulsioned ceiling. Once or twice a year throughout my childhood I would ask the elders of our...
Read full commentPosted in O is for Orange Pomander and Ochre Path
This has a Dickens' Christmas
Posted on Wed, 15 Dec 2021
This has a Dickens' Christmas Carol feel to it, but much darker.
I thought your line
Bill felt the man’s soul seeping into the asphalt like snow melting.
expressed the gravity in the storyline particularly well....
Read full commentPosted in Saints and Sinners – A Christmas Fable (Part Two of Two)
Mince pies aren’t a thing in
Posted on Sun, 12 Dec 2021
Mince pies aren’t a thing in Bulgaria. You can’t even buy the jars of mincemeat in the shops. Priyatelka is French and they’re also not a thing in France, so she had never tasted them until she came with me to England a couple of years ago, but...
Read full commentPosted in M is for Mince Pie and Mouse Pantry
Your words create atmosphere
Posted on Tue, 14 Dec 2021
Your words create atmosphere and bring your town's fair to life ... and they made me laugh.
Especially this bit ...
I often think how it might turn out if this small town fair were in Altrincham instead of Alhaurín....
Read full commentPosted in Feria
Clouds always do the right
Posted on Mon, 13 Dec 2021
Clouds always do the right thing ... well nearly always.
And they have no cares.
I enjoyed readying your poem very much.
Read full commentPosted in Above Such Things
And that's an interesting bit
Posted on Mon, 13 Dec 2021
And that's an interesting bit of information about Victorian postmen. I learn so much about the world and its contents through reading the content of ABC Tales.
I always keep an eye out for the wild birds but there is no sign of any today...
Read full commentPosted in Robin At Winter Solstice
Hello Grace.
Posted on Tue, 14 Dec 2021
Hello Grace.
Mayonnaise is so called because it was first made, apparently, in the town of Mahon on the Spanish / Catalan island of Menorca. And it has nothing at all to do with County Mayo in the west of Ireland as a lot of people...
Read full commentPosted in The Mystery Of The Heinz Salad Cream With 30% Less Fat.
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