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The Beautiful Game
This is a letter to Benjamin Netanyahu. It's about a real issue which is happening right now. I know that there are many terrible things that have happened, and are happening, in Gaza and the West Bank, and a children's football pitch may seem such a minor thing. But it really touched a nerve with me. I feel powerless to do anything about it, but at least I can cry into the void with my letter.
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Sleeping Beauty
Kind of in response to the Inspiration Point, except that I misread it as 'spinning' because I didn't have my glasses on ! I thought I'd post it anyway ..
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Winter Solstice
Yay ! We're round the bump At the bottom of the year Coming up the other side Towards summer
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Elaine
On either side the profiles lie You choose the ones which catch your eye The pretty girls get picked, not I - Elaine of Cardiff (Splott). For...
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Nessie Saves The Day
This is a true story, and readers, I was there… Every bank holiday at the end of May, the Gloucestershire village of South Cerney has a Duck Race, in...
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Small Things Like These
Posted on Sun, 18 Jan 2026
When I was growing up in Southampton there was a place called 'Nazareth House' which was a home for 'unmarried mothers', where most if not all of the girls were Catholic teenagers. I remember the nuns who ran it coming to our house collecting...
Read full commentPosted in Letter to Ann Lovett (1968 - 1984)
Mums
Posted on Thu, 08 Jan 2026
Your mum was roughly contemporary with mine (1927 – 1993), Jenny. It's wonderful that you remember her with such tenderness and love.
My sister, who is religious, believes that she will see our mum again, and that must be very comforting...
Read full commentPosted in Gone But Not Forgotten
Hypocrisy
Posted on Sun, 18 Jan 2026
Well said, Turlough.
I've read a lot about these cases (although I hadn't heard of Ann) and sometimes the man responsible for the pregnancy was the father or brother. Which adds another layer of hypocrisy to the indignant shame heaped by...
Read full commentPosted in Letter to Ann Lovett (1968 - 1984)
Very philosophical !
Posted on Sun, 18 Jan 2026
Very philosophical !
When I worked in Swindon many years ago, The Beehive pub actually employed a resident philosopher, Dr Julius Tomin a dissident Czech.
I wasn't sure about ' the pucker set of initials ' should...
Read full commentPosted in 3. An Expedition To The Pole (i)
Turlough's Tales
Posted on Mon, 05 Jan 2026
Weans' wee wellies, hares and hedges
Morris van with rough steel edges
EE Grace, and Leeds and Smoggies
Ludo cat (and other moggies)
Free roast chicken, leaky teapots
Ireland dark with sideways rainspots....
Read full commentPosted in The Quest to Find the Sarashka Mosque
Thank you Turlough, always
Posted on Sat, 03 Jan 2026
Thank you Turlough, always value your opinion. To my mind a poem's not a poem if it don't rhyme. The comatose verse was my favourite, I was determined to get CPR in there somehow.
I did have some more ideas of how the dim-witted...
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Oh, I thought it said SAGA ..
Posted on Thu, 13 Nov 2025
Oh, I thought it said SAGA ...
Read full commentPosted in Twenty Minutes at the Village Bus Stop
Or dead poll. Considering
Posted on Sun, 09 Nov 2025
Or dead poll. Considering where he was ..
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You and your family are very
Posted on Sun, 09 Nov 2025
You and your family are very kind Maxine.
I have a lodger cat who moved in with me when my own cat died last year. I think he spotted a vacancy. He lived over the road with a dog who chased him. His owners know that Albert has moved in...
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Blessed
Posted on Wed, 21 Jan 2026
Harry, you may not be blessed with a natural instinct for marketing your wares, but you are certainly blessed with a talent for writing. I love the way you can blend the funny and the sad, and make both completely credible with no clash in tone (...
Read full commentPosted in 4. Away with Words (i)
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