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The Vagabond Heirs of Francisco Franco

By Ewan on Sun, 08 Dec 2024

They sit in every cafe-bar named after the street on whose corner it squats. Smoking, small-eyed, wall-eyed moustachioed muchachos remembering kisses...

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Time

By Ewan on Tue, 19 Nov 2024

Should have spent more with them. That's advice I'd give my younger self.

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Tales of the Unconnected

By Ewan on Wed, 13 Nov 2024

yeah, well, sometimes explaining won't do. Image is from wikipedia... and appropriately unconnected with the poem.

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Well done

Posted on Wed, 10 Jul 2024

not quite the ending I was expecting (that's a good thing, BTW) despite the clues.

Not sure about Just Stop Oil's methods myself. Equally, I want to know how long it took them to get to Stonehenge on their pushbikes, because of course...

Posted in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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A Cancer Diary

Posted on Wed, 14 Jun 2023

is something that many patients - as my wife was - are advised by the assigned medical team to keep. Very few see the light of day, my wife's didn't, but everyone has to deal with cancer in their own way. I haven't read my wife's diary. We are...

Posted in Cancer Log 3

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We used to look forward to

Posted on Mon, 09 May 2022

The Day of Victory celebrations every year at Teufelsberg, (West Berlin Listening Post) because it meant there was no operational flying by AFGSFG The Air Force of the Group of Forces Germany, which was what NATO named the Soviet Air Force(s) in...

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This is our Pick of the Day, 22nd January 2025

Posted on Wed, 22 Jan 2025

If ever I need to raise a smile, I know that reading about Ned's Bar will do it for me. Do please share this to your socials so that others can appreciate one of ABC's most individual and idiosyncratic humo(u)rists, Hudson Moon.

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Congratulations, this is our Pick of the Day, 18th November 2024

Posted on Mon, 18 Nov 2024

A very serious subject dealt with in an intelligent yet wryly humorous way.
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This is our Pick of the Day 5th September 2024

Posted on Tue, 03 Sep 2024

This first part of a ghostly tale with a sci-fi twist is our Pick of the Day.
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This is our Pick of the Day 29th August 2024

Posted on Sun, 25 Aug 2024

This continues to fascinate. Off-beat, original and anything but ordinary, that's why it's today's Pick of the Day. Please share on your preferred social media, all.

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Congratulations! This is our Pick of the Day 20th February 2024

Posted on Tue, 20 Feb 2024

Taut, terse and intriguing, this is our pick of the day. Please share on whatever social media you use, fellow ABC-ers

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Congratulations! This is our Pick of the Day Friday 22 Dec 2023

Posted on Thu, 21 Dec 2023

Written like an 8-and-a-half-year-old Joyce - that's James Joyce, not Joyce Grenfell... Although... No seriously, folks, this captures the breathless jumble of thoughts, half-understood things, fears and hopes of almost any kid of that age....

Posted in Children of the Absolution

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Those that aren't too far

Posted on Tue, 24 Oct 2023

on the other side of dementia's curtain can be good company. My dad just shrank away to nothing at all, really. After my dad died, it hit my mum with full force - couldn't tell the time, didn't know what day it was, hiding things. None of which...