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How to Make Money with a Broken Spirograph
Oh what a month! Late December back in ’25. My experiences of it described at the going rate of one hundred words per day.
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The Quest to Find the Sarashka Mosque
Oh what a month! Early December back in ’25. My experiences of it described at the going rate of one hundred words per day.
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On the Patch Where the Strawberries Grew
Remembering my own Angel of the North, my Sunderland grandmother Grace Erskine, on her special night of the year.
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Fête de Noël de Madame Priyatelkata
I’ve never been one for organising social gatherings so I tend to just run round the house with the hoover and leave the rest to Priyatelkata. I told her a five litre bottle of homemade distillate from Rakia Maria up the road and some cheese and pineapple on cocktail sticks would suffice, but she went overboard as usual.
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Driving Home for Chris
Fish and ducks and rock and roll.
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The L-word
Posted on Wed, 07 Jan 2026
Ah now Kat, I think there’s a strong possibility that Mr Spellchecker at Word didn’t consult Yorkshire linguists when he was embarking upon his corrective mission. That would explain t’ omission of t’ T-word as a doing word.
Long, long ago...
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Naughty Bron
Posted on Wed, 07 Jan 2026
A school trip to Manchester sounds interesting. We only ever went to Hadrian's Wall. I've spent more time at Housesteads than Hadrian himself did.
I thought Christmas was the C-word and that's why we don't mention it in our house. I once...
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Wild
Posted on Mon, 05 Jan 2026
I’d have thought that a salmon would be more likely to be involved in an accident in the wild than if living on a fish farm. I don’t suppose they get to choose.
A few weeks ago we put some leftover cooked fish in the fridge where we...
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Now, now Johnny!
Posted on Sat, 20 Dec 2025
I don’t want to go to the dark place. The sheep are looking at me with hatred in their eyes. They wait for me in the cave. Sightless things with wings. What are we going to do with Father? Roll him up like a ticket and poke him in a hole?
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The ABC Beech Nut Germination Challenge 2026
Posted on Wed, 17 Dec 2025
Blessed are the chainsaw enthusiasts.
I knew about the float test which I’ve used before when planting other nuts and fruit stones but we didn’t have many beechnuts to go at from our Irish expedition so we planted the whole lot in compost...
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Alfred N Muggins and Michael D Higgins
Posted on Tue, 25 Nov 2025
As Brian's mum, Mandy once said unto the crowd, 'Now, you listen here! He's not the Messiah. He's a very naughty boy!'
I can't get my head round all the supernatural stuff in the Bible but it's quite likely that there was a Jesus and he...
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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.
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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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