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Terence Mullan
Down the years I have lived in many places and I have done many jobs. Now I live in Bulgaria and the only work I do is tending to my lovely garden when the sun is shining and scribbling away in my big book of writing stuff when it is not.
I may have left it too late in life to become a famous writer or celebrated gardener but I will persevere anyway. These are the things that occupy me in a seemingly effortless and satisfying way.
Hoover
Posted on Wed, 03 Jan 2024
Thanks to you too Di.
Send your Hoover over here with a nice crisp tenner and we'll have it fixed for you before you can say Dimitar's your uncle.
Read full commentPosted in This Sort of Thing - December 2023 - Side B
There's a lot of thinking
Posted on Tue, 02 Jan 2024
There's a lot of thinking going on here, and wondering. Involuntary thinking, perhaps. I like the way the raindrops dictate the rhythm of your morning.
Read full commentPosted in New year
Very best wishes to you.
Posted on Tue, 02 Jan 2024
Ah, 6th January... Women's Christmas in Ireland. I hope all goes well for you and Siobhán and you both have a great time then and long after.
It's good and brave of you to share your story, problems and personal thoughts with us here....
Read full commentPosted in New year's rant
If ever I form a punk band,
Posted on Sat, 30 Dec 2023
If ever I form a punk band, with your approval, I'll call it A Box Full of Kale.
I'm glad I was on the right track.
Flogging Molly are a great band, by the way. Here I'm still mourning the recent departure of Shane MacGowan.
Read full commentPosted in Smashing pumpkins
I’ll put a knobbly lorry
Posted on Sat, 30 Dec 2023
I’ll put a knobbly lorry under me in bed …
An effective measure but maybe a bit drastic. I'd have probably gone for a couple of bits of Lego.
Nice poem Rhiannon... entertaining and amusing.
Read full commentPosted in “This night I will …”
Having formerly lived in
Posted on Sat, 30 Dec 2023
Having formerly lived in Wiltshire for many a moon, I would have calculated from your words that you had set this poem in that part of the world, even if you hadn't told me.
Superstition, antiquity and mystery; this is the stuff of the...
Read full commentPosted in The Witches of Long Compton
This is certainly a poem with
Posted on Wed, 27 Dec 2023
This is certainly a poem with a difference. Very cleverly done.
Read full commentPosted in Reappearing Poem
Chez Ó Maoláin
Posted on Thu, 28 Dec 2023
Yes thank you Di. All is rosy at the moment chez Ó Maoláin.
I hope you are fit and well yourself and you got your son and his illness and his sick note sorted out.
Read full commentPosted in Lingo Bingo
Fiction, yes, but more
Posted on Wed, 27 Dec 2023
Fiction, yes, but more believable than what some people claim to be the truth.
Nice one Paul. Very enjoyable.
Read full commentPosted in The Masque of the Red-Faced Boris
Sorry won’t be enough...
Posted on Tue, 26 Dec 2023
Sorry won’t be enough... exactly!
Their thoughts and prayers worth even less..
Posted in Even Croesus Had To Sleep
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