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The Way We Heard - Rein Me In
In the week that I wrote this (early July 2026) Rein Me In , by Sam Fender and Olivia Dean was the number one record in the UK Singles Chart.
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Misplaced Person Seeks Pomegranates
I wasn’t happy, so I moved on. Unfortunately not all migrants are as lucky as me.
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The Way We Heard - Rat Trap
If you’ve ever drunk Lambanóg on a rainy night in a Tondo bar, you’ll understand every word of this.
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I’m Only Happy When It Rains
All the things I saw, did, said, took to the vets, observed in a state of wobbliness or tapped my foot to during the final fifteen days of May.
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Strimmer Time and the Living is Easy
All the things I saw, did, said, mopped up, or read about during the first sixteen days of May.
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Things Ain’t What They Used to Be
Posted on Tue, 21 Jul 2026
When I was a kid we weren’t really poor but we were never anywhere near to being rich. My dad (a former Irish navvy) always worked away, constantly changing jobs within the building industry and my mother worked long hours in a fruit and veg...
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The Moon
Posted on Thu, 16 Jul 2026
This is a very interesting and amusing way of looking at the climate change problems the world is facing. I hope they don't start poking about looking for minerals on the moon. There's already enough discarded rubbish up there from all those...
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Sadness
Posted on Mon, 13 Jul 2026
Your poem helped Paul, as I read it with sadness. We were at the vets today with one of our dogs. Time's running out for her. These things are never easy.
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8 out of 10 snails prefer Wiskas
Posted on Mon, 13 Jul 2026
I probably understated the scale of the snail problem. It’s not quite so bad this year but in previous years there must have been tens of thousands of them. I googled them and it said they live off dead or decaying vegetable matter. Quite...
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I love these lines Jane...
Posted on Fri, 03 Jul 2026
I love these lines Jane...
a dog is like a holiday;
you must control the urge to taint the end with sadness
because a dog would never do this.
A lovely poem altogether, but you hit the nail...
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Spit it out
Posted on Mon, 22 Jun 2026
And sometimes the other person in the relationship is doing exactly the same thing. It's so funny how we don't talk anymore. It's so sad how we daren't listen. So many things missed because of a you never said.
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Plantar dermal fissures and onychomycosis.
Posted on Thu, 07 May 2026
Back in the days when I was the sort of person who left the house each morning to earn a shilling as a domiciliary chiropodist, I took comfort from the fact that there’d never be a computer programme or robot capable of taking my job. And cracked...
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Sparkly Homes
Posted on Fri, 08 May 2026
Oh Jenny, I can understand why there were tears but to be able to write about this as you have done shows great bravery.
I’m sure there will be more hospital visits to come, as you have predicted, so please tell us how the treatment goes...
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It’s Morphin Time!
Posted on Wed, 15 Apr 2026
That's brilliant Jane. Awash with humour AND a Mighty Morphin Power Ranger, it couldn't be bettered.
And many thanks for taking my place in the challenge. You've done far better than I suspect I would have done.
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Recognition
Posted on Wed, 08 Apr 2026
My research in this field goes back more than sixty years.
Thank you for giving me the recognition. And thanks for the cherries.too, though they'd have been nicer in a pie with a bit of custard.
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