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That'll Be the Day
Wouldn’t you just die without Buddy Holly and the Crickets?
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Kazakh Stan and Kazakh Olly
Proving to the world that there was more to my life than Kazakhstan dancing ladies during the final sixteen days of July.
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The Evolution of the Lettuce
Proving to the world that there was more to my life than lettuce during the first fifteen days of July.
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Farzaneh’s Song
For my dear friend Farzaneh in Iran, and for all the lovely people I met when she was guiding me round her beautiful country in 2011.
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The Way We Heard - All Time Low
In August 2010 the number one record in the UK singles chart was the very aptly titled ‘All Time Low’, by the Wanted.
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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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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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E.R.N.I.E.
Posted on Fri, 14 Aug 2026
Thank you Kat. But what was the other inspiration point? I think I’ve covered ‘early’ in the tale.
And it was definitely the Premium Bonds and E.R.N.I.E. (Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment) that was in the news as I slithered...
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Wild things
Posted on Sat, 08 Aug 2026
There must be a number of different strains of Lyme disease because I hear of people having so many different symptoms. Mine has been in no way painful apart from when the vertigo bit made me fall over a couple of times and hurt my knees.
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Twizzle
Posted on Tue, 21 Jul 2026
Kat, had the boy ever heard of the Woodentops and Twizzle? In my romantic encounters that has always been the first question I have asked on a first date.
One of the greatest disappointments in my life occurred in a trendy nitespot in...
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