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My Döner and Chide
The surprises that turn up in your pocket of a Thursday morning.
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Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
We bought a Lamborghini (or maybe a Fiat… it’s definitely Italian).
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Holiday on Ice
It's like being on a real holiday but without any danger of having to talk to people over breakfast.
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A Midsummer Night’s Apocalypse
When you sit through a storm…
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This Sort of Thing - May 2024 - Three Dart Finish
Words are stupid, words are fun. Words can ward off fierce nuns.
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Cheering
Posted on Mon, 11 Nov 2024
That's great news Ewan. You've certainly cheered me up. Thanks very much.
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The Children of Gaza
Posted on Mon, 11 Nov 2024
My heart bleeds for the upset members of the editorial board.
I love your clever and unique approach to describing these horrors that the world chooses to ignore.
Good on you!
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Goats
Posted on Mon, 28 Oct 2024
Having lived in the Balkans as long as I have, it's hard to resist a story with goats in it. The rats are a bit of a side order too.
I loved your dancing silhouettes. You create a great atmosphere with your words, sending shivers. I felt...
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Lady Grinning Soul
Posted on Mon, 07 Oct 2024
This waiting game, when
hearing melodies that bring
back those carefree impressions,
The first line of your poem brought back to me the first line of David Bowie's Lady Grinning Soul...
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Caught in a trap
Posted on Wed, 09 Oct 2024
I get your drift Luigi. I feel like a sixty-five-year-old trapped in the body of a sixty-six-year-old.
Keep up the good work!
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Challenged
Posted on Fri, 04 Oct 2024
Hello Coral.
I think my challenge is to just keep going with it. It's something I enjoy and it makes me open my notebook to write at least a bit every day, even on those days when I don't really feel like it. I've completed 12 months on...
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Firefly fellas
Posted on Sat, 21 Sep 2024
They're lovely little fellas Jenny, and a bit intriguing the first time you see one. It's like being in a cinema with a tiny usherette with a tiny torch.
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Great writing Paul, as always
Posted on Wed, 25 Sep 2024
Great writing Paul, as always, and very funny.
The possibility that alien life forms on other planets might be fans of heavy metal rock band, Saxon, is surely an indicator that it's time for us to halt our space exploration programmes....
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Miffy
Posted on Fri, 13 Sep 2024
Brilliant words Paul, describing just how bedtime stories are meant to be.
From my experience the bedtime stories were read to get the kids off to sleep but halfway through I would often hear the words 'Dad! Dad! Wake up! You haven't...
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Hello Di.
Posted on Tue, 03 Sep 2024
Hello Di.
Our hedgehogs have always lived here so I suppose they're used to the weather but I think yours might struggle a bit here during our summers. I can never understand how our wildlife survives the huge range of temperature that we...
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