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Jacques and Basil
Scene: The Lobby of Fawlty Towers [The front door creaks open. Inspector Clouseau enters, disguised as a flamboyant millionaire. He is draped in a...
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Hard Pressed
We've come a long way down the road. Turns out you can't trust your friends Like you can your enemies. Seems everybody knows, Before you've even said...
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Out of the cold
Amsterdam's wind, slicing through November, carried a chill that clung to every exposed surface. The city’s canals and cobblestones seemed complicit...
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Better late than never
Every cloud has a silver lining, at least that's what they say, So though storms may loom, they’ll soon pass away. Just as in my odd verse, the heavy...
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Cuckoo Song
The island she stands on Is sinking day by day, So she sings a cuckoo song To pass her time away under dark skies. She’s waiting for the sun In her...
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Appreciated
Posted on Thu, 28 Nov 2024
Thank you, feels strange to be bearing all and not hiding behind ideas and jokes and I appreciate this is not a therapy forum, but there's still some worth I think in remembering someone publicly, even if those you're sharing with had no idea of...
Read full commentPosted in Adam Hopkins September 1939 - November 2024
It was such an easy read.
Posted on Mon, 18 Nov 2024
It was such an easy read. From the first sentence, I was in your world and got quite upset with the forgiving nature of your narrator and her terrible but probably all-too-common situation. I have always been freaked out by Punch and Judy, never...
Read full commentPosted in Cricks Crocodile
Honoured. Seems I score
Posted on Mon, 20 Jan 2025
Honoured. Seems I score better with comedy, which has always been the case, though I strive to be a serious intellectual. The other night, I had a dream that I was trying very hard to impress someone - could have been an attractive woman or...
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absolutely
Posted on Tue, 07 Jan 2025
We have all done things that we shouldn't have, and if you disagree with that then you probably haven't got much of a conscience. I am bothered by the possibility that writing stuff like this comes across as too 'preachy' though. A little pious....
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The commercialisation of
Posted on Tue, 10 Dec 2024
The commercialisation of religious holidays often feels out of step with their origins. The Magi, brought gifts that symbolised more than material wealth: gold for kingship, frankincense for divinity, and myrrh for mortality. The gold might have...
Read full commentPosted in CHRISTmas is Cancelled. Part Four.
Being out in the woods has
Posted on Fri, 16 Feb 2024
Being out in the woods has saved me numerous times. I love the woods. Especially the mossy, brackeny, hilly kind with large rhododendrons and wise old trees. Doesn't matter the weather or time of day, it is always inspiring, reviving and calming...
Read full commentPosted in Two kinds of crying : 15th February 2024
Good collection of anatomic
Posted on Tue, 12 Nov 2024
Good collection of anatomic maladies. I'd quite like to see an anatomical model with all of those clearly demarcated. Perhaps including the vented spleen and weaver's bottom, blacksmith's lung and of course, one wouldn't want to miss out writer's...
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The media thrives on hate. I
Posted on Sun, 03 Nov 2024
The media thrives on hate. I see more and more people switching off the news, not owning a TV, not buying papers. I got very depressed last year, mostly to do with all the terrors in the Middle East but not limited to just that. I had a friend...
Read full commentPosted in I HATE YOU!
I'm sure if there is a God She or He will understand.
Posted on Sun, 03 Nov 2024
Surely this God would practise what they preach and offer compassion, and love and turn the other cheek regardless of whatever sins may have been committed. Surely that's the point. No one is born evil and we are all a result of our environment....
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I love me a clootie dumpling.
Posted on Sat, 02 Nov 2024
I love me a clootie dumpling.
Read full commentPosted in Breast, not Beast
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