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Introducing Turlough Ó Maoláin, Performance Poet
My April, the second of two parts, and restricted to 100 words per day because less is more, and I am the Ludwig Mies van der Rohe of village gossip.
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The Fish on the Hill
My April, the first of two parts, and restricted to 100 words per day so that I can’t be accused of banging on about it.
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When Life Gives You Flags
Part Four of the Flour of Sri Lanka series. Kavinda’s proudest moment.
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Rupees Appease
Part Three of the Flour of Sri Lanka series. Kavinda counts his cash.
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Taking Tea - Kavinda and Me
Part Two of the Flour of Sri Lanka series. Will you take tea, dear friend? Ceylon or Dundee?
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Migration
Posted on Mon, 05 Aug 2024
I particularly like your
“Send a gunboat”
to repel rubber-gum-boats,
When did the rules change so that people were expected to remain for the whole of their lives in the country in which they were born? I expect it...
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Depressingly good
Posted on Sat, 22 Jun 2024
This is a depressingly accurate account of the mess that the world is in at the moment, and nobody seems to be doing anything about putting it right. We can recycle our empties, and turn our lights off and we can struggle to shelter our kids from...
Read full commentPosted in "For, being green, there is great hope" (quote from Shakespeare's HENRY VI PART 2, ACT 3 SCENE 1)
Blooms
Posted on Mon, 08 Apr 2024
Ah, thanks Di.
Our blossom comes in waves. The first, and most impressive, was about a month ago when the wild plums were in flower (we call them djanki and you call them mirabelles), which was followed by the pears and now as they fizzle...
Read full commentPosted in This Sort of Thing - March 2024 - L'ouverture
Shockingly lovely.
Posted on Fri, 16 Feb 2024
A great reminder that what we have contains so much more beauty and tranquilty than the homes of much of the rest of the world. I wish that wasn't true but it is. Your words soften the reader's frame of mind before the contrast and the harsh...
Read full commentPosted in Two kinds of crying : 15th February 2024
Ukraine
Posted on Mon, 12 Feb 2024
Before I write anything else I want to stress that I absolutely do not condone Putin's actions in Ukraine.
However, here in Bulgaria we have refugees from Ukraine, but they are different to the Ukraine refugees that have fled their...
Read full commentPosted in After Russian Rain (A Postscript from Moscow)
Worms.
Posted on Thu, 28 Dec 2023
If' you'd been in a Mexican bar you'd have been grand.
Read full commentPosted in Lingo Bingo
Hello Jean.
Posted on Thu, 30 Nov 2023
Hello Jean.
I'm so sorry to hear that you didn't get the news that you were hoping for. I'm hoping your asymptomatic status continues and the chemotherapy is doing its job.
Thank you for keeping us up to date with what you're going...
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I really like..
Posted on Thu, 26 Oct 2023
I really like..
And oh, what a world full of places for foxes who know!
They are everywhere but they keep themselves to themselves. They know things that we don't know and they go places we don't go. Gorgeous creatures and...
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I love this Rhiannon, though
Posted on Mon, 21 Aug 2023
I love this Rhiannon, though it saddens me.
You've reminded me of the dear elderly people I used to visit when I was working, particularly those living in care homes. They had no desire to receive presents. What brought them happiness was...
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Ha ha! If ever he tells you
Posted on Wed, 09 Aug 2023
Ha ha! If ever he tells you to get knotted he probably means he's waiting for you to turn into that tree.
People such as Lesley Ash, Courtney Pine, Nigel Hawthorne and King Edward the Elder have already been through this process.
Read full commentPosted in wising up
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