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Marta My Deer
All the things I saw, did, said, celebrated, observed or grumbled about, some of which were in Lithuania though there was nothing to grumble about there, during the final twenty-one days of June.
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The Dumplings of Count Tiškevičius
All the things I saw, did, said, wandered around, admired, ate and drank, some of which were in Lithuania, during the first nine days of June.
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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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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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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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