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This Sort of Thing - March 2024 - La finale
Words of comfort, words of peace. Words to fend off angry geese.
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This Sort of Thing - March 2024 - L'ouverture
Words in papers, words in books. Words once sung by Elkie Brooks.
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More Elaines
Elaine and I barely spoke to each other but memories of this gruff, no-nonsense woman have stayed with me for fifty years.
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This Sort of Thing - February 2024 - Last Orders
Written at the rate of 100 words per day, this is the second part of my account of an arduous journey through February via the middle of nowhere.
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This Sort of Thing - February 2024 - Early Doors
Written at the rate of 100 words per day, this is the first part of my account of an arduous journey from the beginning of February to the middle of February.
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Good health and life
Posted on Mon, 03 Mar 2025
Zdraveh ee zhivot (здраве и живот, meaning good health and life) is a phrase that Bulgarians use every day Jenny, in a sort of 'all the best' way. So I can see that you're into their way of thinking.
Priyatelka's back is fine now. I've...
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Things you see on a wall
Posted on Sun, 02 Mar 2025
Or leaving the piss, perhaps.
Ta very much Di.
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Bob
Posted on Sun, 02 Mar 2025
Hello Jenny.
The Bob Dylan film is excellent but I think it might be best appreciated by people who are already fans. Priyatelkata wasn't as thrilled with it as I was. However, a fan will spot a few inaccuracies (aka artistic licence) but...
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Car boot commodities
Posted on Sat, 01 Mar 2025
It is indeed a car boot sale commodity Rhiannon, apparently changing hands at three or four times the price of what it would cost in Asda. The immigrant Marmite runners understandably have to make it worth their while.
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Flimsy legs
Posted on Fri, 28 Feb 2025
If pond skaters took to drinking whey protein shakes they could become our planet's dominant species. I think it's worth a try.
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And without skates.
Posted on Fri, 28 Feb 2025
And without skates too, which is just as well because they'd struggle to fasten them up.
This is a great poem. And I like your choice of song too.
Nice one Jenny!
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Ras Gombo
Posted on Thu, 27 Feb 2025
Unfortunately I never went to Ras Gombo. I just sailed past it in the night... three times actually during the course of my seafaring days. Those waters around the Horn of Africa are a dangerous place to be now. I doubt if I'd be falling into a...
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Roberta Flack
Posted on Tue, 25 Feb 2025
That's a wonderful song.
Her other huge hit 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face', written by Salford's Ewan MacColl, is a very moving piece to read as poetry even without the music and Roberta's beautiful voice.
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Without moons
Posted on Tue, 25 Feb 2025
Gustav Holst in written word. Lovely lines of great mysteriousness.
I smiled at the concept of Top Tweet Tuesday. It gives the impression that Elon Musk has a fluffy side to him. I tend to forget about Mr Blue Sky. I'll go and have a look...
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And it would last 'til the end of time...
Posted on Tue, 25 Feb 2025
I get this Jenny.
Roberta Flack's passing a few days ago brought heaviness to my heart as another morsel of reality morphed into mere nostalgia.
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