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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
Hot Cross Buns and Fish and Chips
It’s that one hundred words thing again, covering the second half of March when I was mostly in England.
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Johnny Ten Levs vs Jack Daniels
It’s that one hundred words thing again, covering the first half of March when I was mostly in Bulgaria.
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Streets of Stoke Newington
Possibly the most tenuous link ever to a weekly inspirational point (this week it’s toast) and a fond recollection of happy times in the mid-1980s living with ‘her indoors’ in a North London oasis of social harmony.
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The Archers in Cyrillic Script
The events of February 2025 (the second part) in my neck of the area of land, smaller than a forest, that is covered with growing trees, described using my usual one hundred words per day method.
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Please Tell Him That I Said Hello
The events of February 2025 (the first part) in my neck of the copse, described using my usual one hundred words per day method.
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Brean
Posted on Wed, 13 Aug 2025
I once went to a wedding evening do in a pub in Brean. There were no knives or cat herders but there was a fight. Your description of the peaceful seaside surroundings make me wish I'd gone back on a better day.
Nice one Paul!
Read full commentPosted in Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (5)
A one-off
Posted on Mon, 11 Aug 2025
Thank you Paul.
Each time of reading one of Coral's poems I discover something new in it. Her writing is very deep, as was her personality. I could never match her standard but she definately made me take a second look at my own writing...
Read full commentPosted in Our Old Girl… Remembering Coral
Barbarians of the backwoods
Posted on Tue, 12 Aug 2025
I think it's predominantly people who live there that call it the greatest nation on earth. The rest of us can see through the ever thinning walls of their bubble. Even before Trump arrived on the scene it was a country that had issues with its...
Read full commentPosted in The Greatest Nation On Earth! by Alfred N.Muggins
For Coral
Posted on Fri, 29 Oct 2010
Oh Di, choosing Coral's poem as Pick of the Day today is an absolutely beautiful thing to do.
I know she'd have been delighted.
Read full commentPosted in St Ives, Summer 1993
Beautiful
Posted on Mon, 11 Aug 2025
What a beautiful thing to post. I love the fact that you have such good memories of her.
Good on you ScoZen.
Read full commentPosted in For a Fan Coral
She casts spells
Posted on Thu, 07 Aug 2025
That's quite a story Jenny. It's great to think how your imagination must have been running wild and how you managed to write it all down.
I loved the lines
said to me: “she casts spells and is
crazy – think I've...
Read full commentPosted in Woodsman And The Medicine Woman.
Towers
Posted on Thu, 07 Aug 2025
Many hundreds of humans in a vertical stack
is a wonderful way to describe those towers that surrounded me during the days of my youth too. And those comprehensive schools for the honour of which the kids who attended them would...
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Yay!
Posted on Tue, 05 Aug 2025
Yay! Nice one Di,
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Salty
Posted on Wed, 06 Aug 2025
Until the lunchbox appeared you were edging towards blues singer Robert Johnson's meeting at the Crossroads.
But what first caught my eye was
A down-and-out salty sea dog
which made me wonder if you were writing...
Read full commentPosted in The Last Temptation of Kieran Murphy
My thoughts
Posted on Tue, 05 Aug 2025
Your poetic description of the beautiful nature around you at this time of year and the situation in Palestine are each at opposite ends of the spectrum of what's exists daily n my mind Di. It increases the need for we in safer countries to...
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