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Letters on the Mat
Splat!
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Tobruk, Or Not Tobruk?
A breakfast meeting to remember, and one that transformed my way of broadening my outlook on the world.
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An Afternoon With Perperuna
Wouldn’t you just die without Georges Brassens and the Slavic gods?
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Hairy Bob from Heckmondwike
A difficult case of having to deal with an obscured view.
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That'll Be the Day
Wouldn’t you just die without Buddy Holly and the Crickets?
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The past
Posted on Mon, 31 Aug 2026
What makes me feel terrible is that the actions of Netanyahu and his awful government, with the support of numerous other governments and powerful people around the world, have made me change the way I feel about the dark history that Jewish...
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Difficult
Posted on Mon, 31 Aug 2026
You're right Kat. Those people do give some hope, but is it enough? Although I try, I find it extremely difficult to view the current global situation regarding politics, religion, economics and the resultant wars in a positive way.
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Whirlwind
Posted on Mon, 31 Aug 2026
I get you Harry. It's when the thoughts cause such a whirlwind in the head that it becomes impossible to get on with anything.
The whirlwind seems to whirl faster every day but at least I find it comforting to be amongst books, even if I...
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Greed
Posted on Mon, 31 Aug 2026
We can hope Kat, but it's a very slim hope. There have been more moderate Israeli governments in the past but they have still been brutal in a place where they have no right to be.
Ordinary people around the world can see that this is...
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POD
Posted on Mon, 24 Aug 2026
And I'm really pleased that this is the pick of the day.
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Greatly missed
Posted on Mon, 24 Aug 2026
You know you are greatly missed on ABCtales, Jenny, and it’s very good of you to let us know how you are getting on with your treatment and life in general which has obviously become very difficult. I was glad to read how well you are coping with...
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Iggy
Posted on Fri, 21 Aug 2026
A couple of years ago I bought a bayonet for a Kalashnikov at a local car boot sale. It has ‘AK-47 CCCP’ stamped into the base of the blade. There’s something strangely satisfying about sharpening my pencils with it whenever I start to write. I...
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Shame
Posted on Sat, 15 Aug 2026
I’m not always up to date with British news so I had to go googling to see what was going on. Maybe he did do wrong but I doubt if he’d have been subjected to the same level of abuse if he’d been white.
I agree with you. There'll be people...
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Two
Posted on Sat, 15 Aug 2026
I know exactly what you mean Kat. I was on my own for years and deliriously happy. Then I met this French woman in a Bulgarian bar. She had been on her own for years and was deliriously happy. So we got on well together and suddenly we weren’t on...
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Avons of Babylon
Posted on Fri, 14 Aug 2026
It was one of my old lady punters in Bath that told me this. She spoke fluent Anglo-Saxon (and had taught it during her working life) but had no one to talk to so she picked on me. Avon is the Anglo-Saxon word for river and Afon is the Old Irish...
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