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A Hare's Breath 5 - The Dark Hedges
The thoughts of an old fella on his return to a wee town in the North of Ireland in the 2020s and his love for hares and nostalgia.
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A Hare's Breath 4 - The Horror
The thoughts of a wee boy in a wee town in the North of Ireland in the late 1960s and his love for a white Morris 1000 van and hares and bicycles and not being shot at and having a jumper to wear that doesn’t smell of sick.
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A Hare’s Breath 3 - The Accident
The thoughts of a wee boy in a wee town in the North of Ireland in the late 1960s and his love for a white Morris 1000 van and hares and bicycles and not being shot at.
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A Hare's Breath 2 - The Bicycle
The thoughts of a wee boy in a wee town in the North of Ireland in the late 1960s and his love for a white Morris 1000 van and hares and bicycles.
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A Hare's Breath 1 - The Van
The thoughts of a wee boy in a wee town in the North of Ireland in the late 1960s and his love for a white Morris 1000 van and hares.
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Glasgow
Posted on Fri, 14 Nov 2025
You're exactly right Di. In terms of personal memories it's often better that a place has disappeared than to have stayed and become sadly unrecognisable. It's a bit like a rock star dying young; not so good for the rock star or the people who...
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Bucharest
Posted on Fri, 14 Nov 2025
Three or four years ago, with my partner, I walked through the Pasajul Macca-Vilacrosse and left the place with a feeling of gloom having discovered that the fabulously ornate nineteenth century arcaded passageways had deteriorated into a fork-...
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Poor Danny!
Posted on Mon, 10 Nov 2025
Poor Danny!
And I don't think the hijacking really matters when the subject matter's interesting.
Read full commentPosted in Turlough Ó Carolan's Farewell to Turlough Ó Maoláin
Martha Wainwright
Posted on Wed, 05 Nov 2025
I went to a Martha Wainwright gig at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London about twenty years ago. I was a bit unsure about her but my friend who was a fan bought me my ticket so I felt I had to go along. I didn't particularly enjoy any of the concert...
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Desperation
Posted on Wed, 15 Oct 2025
Many thanks to you Di for your comment.
Ah those flags. They shouldn't be up there at all. They're not just racist but supporting a terrorist organisation that was very active during the Troubles. And to have them up there in a place so...
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Manchester... lah lah lah
Posted on Tue, 19 Aug 2025
I try to spend my mornings, at least, with my mind free of the world's horrors and atrocities. ABCtales is usually a grand place to make this escape as I drink my coffee. This Bulgarian style coffee that Priyatelkata describes as 'the coffee of...
Read full commentPosted in Mrs Muggins Goes On a Mini Tour of Italy, While the Butcher and the Clown Meet in Alaska! by Alfred N.Muggins
Groovy!
Posted on Sun, 17 Aug 2025
Did you ever watch The Fast Show with John Thomson's 'Jazz Club' parody sketches? They were hilarious in that they were such a close likeness of the reality.
There are only small snippets of jazz that I like, and Django is a lot different...
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Those pesky sleeps
Posted on Tue, 05 Aug 2025
You certainly should visit Bulgaria Paul. This country, like all of the countries in the Balkans, are encrusted in jewels of history and culture that the rest of Europe knows nothing about. As an example, have a look on Google for ...
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Carrying the weight
Posted on Sat, 12 Jul 2025
It's often incredible how we take on responsibility simply because nobody else is there to do it. Your poem contains powerful words that make the practical and emotional hardship that you went through really stand out, along with what you missed...
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Michael Wood but I wouldn't.
Posted on Tue, 01 Jul 2025
About twenty years ago my kids and I stayed a night in the village of Blarney. We didn’t go to the castle because we were all quite talkative already. The following morning, we left the guest house just as the sun rose to drive the few kilometres...
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