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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.
My stories
Hot Cross Bun Blues
If only they had a branch of Sainsbury’s in the Mississippi Delta.
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Nellie the Devilment
How smiling eyes and a Derry accent can get you almost anything you want.
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Poking James MacGuigan’s Cow
This is an old bit of writing from the days when I was still nervous about farm animals. I’ve done a bit of the digital remastering because I was never really happy with it and I thought that while I was fiddling about I would change the subject from a pig to a cow, thus meeting the dictates of this week’s Inspiration Point. So you’d better read it because if you don’t I’ll set James MacGuigan on you.
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Trip of a Lifetime
A poem inspired by a terrible incident my partner and I witnessed on the four kilometre journey into our local town this morning.
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Scorn Not His Djezve
A tongue in cheek assessment of the misnomer that making good coffee is complicated.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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This is certainly a poem with
Posted on Wed, 27 Dec 2023
This is certainly a poem with a difference. Very cleverly done.
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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.
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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.
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Sorry won’t be enough...
Posted on Tue, 26 Dec 2023
Sorry won’t be enough... exactly!
Their thoughts and prayers worth even less..
Read full commentPosted in Even Croesus Had To Sleep
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