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Rakia Maria – Part Two of Two
So I said to Priyatelkata ‘Isn’t it lovely?’ and she replied ‘Yes! It’s very lovely.’ Maria added, ‘Life and health!’ in Bulgarian, of course. What...
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Rakia Maria - Part One of Two
I love the month of March in Bulgaria. It heralds the beginning of a four-month long explosion of nature straight off the back of the iciest winters...
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Black Grape Cat Disorder
Osem our cat is black and white He’ll eat whatever comes in sight He eats all day and he eats all night No bounds exist to his appetite He eats...
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Our Man in Golubac
As sweat ran down my temples the man at the other end of the telephone line told me that he spoke Bulgarian, which came as a massive relief to me...
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Back in the M.A.F.F. - Part Two of Two
My dear colleague, Colin the Contortionist, really was called Colin but he was employed by the M.A.F.F. more as a Scientific Officer than as a...
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My parents would drag me and
Posted on Sun, 11 Feb 2024
My parents would drag me and my sister to Crazy Prices in Coleraine every Fiday evening in the late 1960s. I didn't like going but watching the sparks fly from the fingers of the check-out woman as she tapped in the prices on the buttons on the...
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Her mind a circus in a
Posted on Wed, 07 Feb 2024
Her mind a circus in a fishbowl
That's a brilliant line.
Every time, the whole situation is one of mental torture for the poor elderly person and for the family but struggling on without the care home is even harder....
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Poor, poor tadpoles.
Posted on Thu, 08 Feb 2024
We avoid using the car as much as possible and recycle practically everything. Even our cats are secondhand. There's not much more that we can do to save the planet except to sit at home and be depressed about it.
I didn't know about the...
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Thanks very much airyfairy.
Posted on Thu, 08 Feb 2024
Thanks very much airyfairy.
My 100 words a day thing keeps my brain ticking over. It's a bit like a sodoku in words rather than numbers. So even if nobody reads it, it's worth having a crack at.
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When I read your comment, Di,
Posted on Thu, 08 Feb 2024
When I read your comment, Di, I thought your cat had been complaining about chalkdust. We have dust but it's nothing to do with chalk.
Our weather is unbelievably warm at the moment which is not typical. Our winters are much milder than...
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It certainly is Rhiannon.
Posted on Thu, 08 Feb 2024
It certainly is Rhiannon. Already we have things sprouting up all over the place. At the beginning of March nature seems to explode in Bulgaria.
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Andy Williams sang...
Posted on Thu, 08 Feb 2024
Andy Williams sang, 'It's the most wonderful time of the year!' I don't think he meant February but if they'd asked me to sing it instead of him, that's certainly what would have been going through my mind.
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Life started to become
Posted on Thu, 08 Feb 2024
Life started to become difficult, Jenny, with the introduction of colour tellies and decimal coinage. Where I lived our whole world was in black and white and nobody had any money so it all took a lot longer to understand.
Thanks for...
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Yes, we decided to just be
Posted on Tue, 06 Feb 2024
Yes, we decided to just be friends.
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A mesmerising display indeed.
Posted on Mon, 05 Feb 2024
A mesmerising display indeed.
Such displays aren't seen so much these days. I remember watching them as a child as they almost obliterated Belfast City Hall and the surrounding buildings. A fantastic feature of nature to see but...
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