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Aww, I loved Kirsty MacColl.

Posted on Sun, 19 Dec 2021

Aww, I loved Kirsty MacColl. It was 21 years ago yesterday that she was killed in Mexico. It broke my heart and I still get a touch of the old melancholy when I listen to her albums.

I loved the Pogues too and saw them perform live many...

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Madame Euveur

Posted on Thu, 16 Dec 2021

My partner is French. I call her Priyatelka which is the Bulgarian word for partner or girlfriend. We live in Bulgaria so our conversations tend to take place in a combination of English, French and Bulgarian languages together with a...

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And Billy J. Kramer?

Posted on Thu, 16 Dec 2021

It’s not just the mind of Alfred N. Muggins that is boggling. Mine boggles too as I try to get to grips with the following …

If Marie Antoinette had said ‘Give them a suburban garden and a washing machine’ would this quote have stood the...

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You're exactly right Di.

Posted on Wed, 15 Dec 2021

You're exactly right Di. Happiness abounds in our little Malki Chiflik home.

To add to this we got another cat today. We found him all alone in the street in town, shivering in the icy rain. The vet said he's about three months old. We've...

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Rage is the perfect title for

Posted on Thu, 16 Dec 2021

Rage is the perfect title for these angry words. I can feel the rage in every line.

And I understand.

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We can never pin down the

Posted on Thu, 16 Dec 2021

We can never pin down the point in our lives when we became old. I felt old when I turned thirty, when my kids were born, when I turned sixty, when my grandkids were born ... and I'm even older now. It happens a bit more every day but we never...

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Our only conifer is a fir

Posted on Wed, 15 Dec 2021

Our only conifer is a fir tree at the far end of the wild bit of our garden. It's been there for four years now and it looks beautiful. We bought it from a market stall round about this time of year. It looked very sad so we bought it to give it...

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Well written words, as always

Posted on Thu, 16 Dec 2021

Well written words, as always.

I've always wondered why a caterpillar should have so many more legs than the moth or butterfly that it turns into. But now I know. So thank you.

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At the foot of the stairs in

Posted on Tue, 14 Dec 2021

At the foot of the stairs in my Nan’s house, a dark brown knobbly object hung by a piece of thread from a rusty drawing pin pushed into the off-white emulsioned ceiling. Once or twice a year throughout my childhood I would ask the elders of our...

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This has a Dickens' Christmas

Posted on Wed, 15 Dec 2021

This has a Dickens' Christmas Carol feel to it, but much darker.

I thought your line 

Bill felt the man’s soul seeping into the asphalt like snow melting. 

expressed the gravity in the storyline particularly well....

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