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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
The Fish on the Hill
My April, the first of two parts, and restricted to 100 words per day so that I can’t be accused of banging on about it.
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When Life Gives You Flags
Part Four of the Flour of Sri Lanka series. Kavinda’s proudest moment.
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Rupees Appease
Part Three of the Flour of Sri Lanka series. Kavinda counts his cash.
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Taking Tea - Kavinda and Me
Part Two of the Flour of Sri Lanka series. Will you take tea, dear friend? Ceylon or Dundee?
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A Black Morris Minor and a Pink Carnation
Part One of the Flour of Sri Lanka series. Coping with the heat, the flies and the disco funk.
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Roots
Posted on Tue, 21 Oct 2025
I've moved around a lot in my life Jenny, so I've never been sure where home was. Family members had always told me that Ireland was home and when I go there it feels like that's true, so that's a big part of the reason I get the lumps. But...
Read full commentPosted in Singin' in the Buncrana Rain
Nice one!
Posted on Tue, 21 Oct 2025
Nice one Paul... an eerie tale expertly written.
But if you don't mind I'll just point out a bit of a factual error. Brian Eno left Roxy Music nine years before they released Avalon. At that stage of the band's history only Bryan Ferry, ...
Read full commentPosted in Why does it always rain in graveyards?
Shells
Posted on Sun, 19 Oct 2025
It's hard to say what Priyatelkata does for a living. She sells seashells on the seashore.
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Funeral Fans
Posted on Sat, 18 Oct 2025
For me, your second paragraph sums up the seasonal changes and other people's peculiar approach to them. And I think and hope that Herbican's a fictitious character as you've demonstrated great skill in describing what a miserable character he is...
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Teapot Trafficking
Posted on Fri, 17 Oct 2025
What you've said is true Di. People have been leaving rural Ireland for a couple of centuries. The country's population still hasn't recovered to the level it was before the Great Hunger in the 1840s when a million people died and another million...
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Teachers
Posted on Thu, 16 Oct 2025
I was painfully shy back then and afraid to say boo to a goose. My parents moved us around quite a bit so I always seemed to have the wrong accent. Feeling intimidated most of the time, or at the very best just bored, I never stuck up for myself...
Read full commentPosted in At Home in the Pause
Pause for thought.
Posted on Thu, 16 Oct 2025
Your words fit perfectly with how I've felt for years.
Everybody measures success in different ways. My experience of school teachers was that they felt they'd been successful if they'd packed some kids off to university, whether it was...
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People in longboats
Posted on Sun, 12 Oct 2025
Aye, apparently many of the Vikings who arrived in Britain and Ireland did so to trade and even integrate and marry into local communities. I think a lot of the bad press they got was stirred up by an eighth century equivalent of Nigel Farage and...
Read full commentPosted in Floki's Viking Spirit
Tony & Kirk
Posted on Sun, 12 Oct 2025
Nice one Jenny! A great poem and well deserving of the golden delicious.
I've never seen the Vikings television series but when I was a kid I loved the film of the same name that had Tony Curtis and Kirk Douglas in it. There's one bit...
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Euro cash
Posted on Fri, 26 Sep 2025
Ha ha! Saint Pay Up would be a great name for a fella on our money. St P is only going on the Bulgarian euro coin, not the notes. Every country in the Eurozone has it's own euro coin but they all use each other's. The euro banknotes are the same...
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