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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.

955 of my comments have received 1025 Great Feedback votes

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Oooh, big gulp.

Posted on Fri, 01 Sep 2023

Oooh, big gulp.

That means a lot to me.

Thank you very very much.

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Posted in You Never Said

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From my own experience Di, I

Posted on Fri, 29 Sep 2023

From my own experience Di, I would say you had every reason to worry. I've had cycling accidents on several occasions, one of which resulted in broken ribs, but the steep downhill on a badly designed but cool looking bike looking bike was...

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Posted in The Fall of the Mountain King

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I went with my kids a fair

Posted on Thu, 28 Sep 2023

I went with my kids a fair few times to that Pembroke / Cardigan sort of region. It was easy to get there when we lived in Wiltshire. It was fabulous and those trips always spawned great memories.

My partner's originally from Brittany. She...

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Posted in Pembrokeshire — two seasons

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No pain, no gain... as they

Posted on Tue, 26 Sep 2023

No pain, no gain... as they say. You may not have gained the piercing that you had hoped for but you did gain a great story to tell about yourself in your younger days. Short tales like this can reveal so much about a person's character. I always...

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Posted in Misguided In The Early 90s

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Your great use of

Posted on Sat, 02 Sep 2023

Your great use of onomatopoeiae makes the description of dramatic weather all the more dramatic. 

And you sneaked in before me with my idea for writing, though I didn't really know where to start. It seems like here my onomatopoeiae have...

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Posted in The sounds of rain

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Knowing that, Coral, cements

Posted on Fri, 01 Sep 2023

Knowing that, Coral, cements it in my heart and my head forever. Tx

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Posted in You Never Said

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A wonderful poem for making

Posted on Thu, 31 Aug 2023

A wonderful poem for making me think seriously about so many things. 

But also this bit...

Grandfather says,

see how I can take out my teeth

and pop them back in again,

has made me,...

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Posted in The First Sorrow

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Ah, now I've got it. There's

Posted on Wed, 30 Aug 2023

Ah, now I've got it. There's really nothing to translate.

This is very clever. I don't know much about Latin but Google Translate does seem to recognise the words as being written in Latin.

What a wonderful discovery.

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Posted in A riddle?

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It''s incredible how vets can

Posted on Wed, 30 Aug 2023

It''s incredible how vets can turn up unexpectedly when needed. Do they really go everywhere with a termometer and a small animal cage? 

A great poem dear Jenny the lifesaver.

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Posted in Feathers Without Hope

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Oh, Niamh, I thought you

Posted on Tue, 29 Aug 2023

Oh, Niamh, I thought you might be. It's good that you can write about it. If it helps, don't stop.

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Posted in 'Painkiller'

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