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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.
Aaaarrrrgggghhhhh!
Posted on Sun, 12 Nov 2023
Aaaarrrrgggghhhhh!
You have my sympathy.
One of our cats brought a squirrel into the house this morning for its breakfast. If he'd asked I'd have given him a Kinder Bueno. We would have avoided so much mess, so much pain and so...
Read full commentPosted in The Party
Nice one Niamh!
Posted on Sun, 12 Nov 2023
Nice one Niamh!
I've noticed that they like pipe insulation material almost as much as they enjoy a Kinder Bueno.
That's a great story and very amusing, but I'm trying not to think that it really happened.
Read full commentPosted in The Party
As you describe these
Posted on Wed, 08 Nov 2023
As you describe these beautiful wild and natural places I like how you remind us of the contrasting steel and glass that blight so much of our world. A little jolt to my warm, sleepy, autumnal head.
And as the world turns...
Read full commentPosted in The Changing of Seasons
This is full of your usual
Posted on Tue, 31 Oct 2023
This is full of your usual wonderful rhyme and rhythm but the final verse took me by surprise, much like when you're watching something amusing and nice on television and you change channels to suddenly discover the awful news of the day.
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Read full commentPosted in One Good Turn
These are lovely words Jenny.
Posted on Mon, 30 Oct 2023
These are lovely words Jenny.
A perfect memorial to your much loved parents. It's clear to see that they had the same passion for the nature around them that you have.
Beautiful!
Read full commentPosted in Remembering
Jessica doesn't sound like
Posted on Mon, 30 Oct 2023
Jessica doesn't sound like any of the teachers that I had at school. You haven't mentioned brutality or the possibility that she might be a nun.
So I'm looking forward to the next bit.
Read full commentPosted in May 4th (chapter 2)
This is extremely good Di.
Posted on Sun, 29 Oct 2023
This is extremely powerful writing Di.
I was sorry to hear about your trees being brought down. Nature is powerful and in time new trees will grow, possibly stronger.
In the Middle East the perpetrators of the current atrocity...
Read full commentPosted in October 2023
And because every day that I
Posted on Fri, 27 Oct 2023
And because every day that I spend with the someone I love is differently new and wonderful it made writing this poem a bit tricky. It was like shooting at a moving target. There were so many bits that I wrote and chopped out I could have used...
Read full commentPosted in Yantra Mantra
There is a constant darkness
Posted on Sat, 28 Oct 2023
There is a constant darkness in my mind at the moment.
Occupation, oppression, apartheid, genocide, inhumanity and, as you said, shame are the words I think of. But a shame deeper than any that has gone before as we sit back and allow this...
Read full commentPosted in open your eyes!
The way names are given and
Posted on Sat, 28 Oct 2023
The way names are given and and messed about with fascinates me. It's usually the case that a lot of thought has gone into them but also sometimes very little thought at a all e.g. my friend's sister Teresa Green.
I'd love to know the...
Read full commentPosted in Middle Name.
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