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This Sort of Thing - The Childhood Stage
From a Smoggie to a Culchie, a ten year journey.
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This Sort of Thing - April 2024 - The Sporophyte Stage
Eat your words but don't go hungry. Words can make you grow rotundly.
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This Sort of Thing - April 2024 - The Gametophyte Stage
Words to tell you what to do. Words as strong as Irn Bru.
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Turn and Face the Strange
Contemplating life in a world where virtually everything’s becoming virtual.
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Catatouille
Discovering that meat isn’t necessarily murder.
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Just checking
Posted on Mon, 12 May 2025
These lines worried me...
Do you check your phone before you pee in the morning or while you pee?
and
That stuff can wait until the evening,
Do you mean the phone checking can...
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Pick of the Dream Pops
Posted on Thu, 08 May 2025
It must be very difficult for any musical performers from Mullingar to succeed, living as they do in the shadow of the immortal Joe Dolan. So fair play to the Gone Forevers. I'm glad their lyrics are in Swedish. I wish Abba could have done the...
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Marillion
Posted on Wed, 07 May 2025
Oooh, thanks very much indeed Jenny. Your comment is almost as long as my post.
When I worked in Bristol there was a colleague who had previously been a roadie for Marillion and, as a consequence, Marillion agreed to be the live band at...
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And now for my next tick...
Posted on Wed, 07 May 2025
Ah now, I'm delighted by this news. I've been confined to the house most of the day by a huge thunderstorm so this has fair cheered me up.
Many thanks to you, your cat and your blackbird.
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Bravo!
Posted on Tue, 06 May 2025
Very well done Jane. Fingers crossed here for the book. Unlike IPFN, I do have a hat to eat if it doesn't get published but hats tend to give me indigestion, especially sombreros.
And it will get published anyway.
Read full commentPosted in Parcel for You - Part 61 (the end)
Ar Zhao
Posted on Wed, 07 May 2025
Ayup ar Zhao! Is tha lakin' at snooker terneet?
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Energetic
Posted on Thu, 01 May 2025
Isn't energetic just the perfect word for describing the spring?
A great poem Jenny. Congratulations on all the accolades.
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Old Quarry
Posted on Fri, 25 Apr 2025
We never know what characters hide behind those scary faces. Better safe than sorry, every time for children and adults.
When I was nine and living in York, a lorry driver stopped and offered me a lift. I often think back and wonder what...
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Scary stuff
Posted on Fri, 25 Apr 2025
Such a shame that a lovely adventure should go so horribly wrong. You did right to run away as it could have gone even more horribly wrong. A story of two extremes, and quite disturbing as we never know what is out there. We live in a scary world...
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Petty cash
Posted on Thu, 17 Apr 2025
The money I gave to Kavinda was approximately one tenth of my weekly wage at the time, so not much at all to me but a fortune to him.
I've written part three but it's too big to fit within the parameters of an ABC post so I've split it and...
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