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He was just a donkey. I suppose he had a name, although I didn't see it in any of the news reports. He belonged to a Palestinian farmer, so he wasn't...
Poor man. I know he seemed a little odd. Maybe he did cheat deliberately Or exaggerate. I don't know Time will tell. But he didn't need to die for it...
So here I am Staring down a slope which has considerably shortened. I don't know What's at the end of it. Nobody does, really. Am I happy ? Content,...
236 of my comments have received 278 Great Feedback votes
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Hope
Posted on Fri, 08 May 2026
Jenny I was so shocked by your email yesterday that I forgot to tell you about my step-mother's brother in law (bit of a convoluted relationship I know !). Anyway, I am going to post it here rather than emailing you, in case it helps anyone else...
That's so funny, that's exactly what I was thinking ! Either the deputy, or the sheriff, will wake up in the shower (or even in the shower together ..) and find out it's all been a dream ..
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...
A 'what if' scenario, expressed with your usual humour and eloquence. Who knows what might have happened ? You might have run off with a belly dancer from Tripoli and we wouldn't even be reading this.
That's me too ! A big pile of books next to the bed, which I've brought home from the charity shop. I feel like Cnut trying to push back the waves sometimes.
But I like them there, I feel they define me somehow. Some people put up...
In last year's drought there was a hosepipe ban in Hampshire, where my dad lives. But Southern Water were delivering water in tankers to fill up an artificial lake on an estate owned by a wealthy American who is a friend of Donald Trump. One...
Hope
Posted on Fri, 08 May 2026
Jenny I was so shocked by your email yesterday that I forgot to tell you about my step-mother's brother in law (bit of a convoluted relationship I know !). Anyway, I am going to post it here rather than emailing you, in case it helps anyone else...
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Aliens
Posted on Wed, 15 Apr 2026
Ah that explains why the first lady's name is an anagram of AM ALIEN. Now we know !
Well done Jane.
Read full commentPosted in Penny's Pass the Story - Part 10
Dream on
Posted on Tue, 31 Mar 2026
That's so funny, that's exactly what I was thinking ! Either the deputy, or the sheriff, will wake up in the shower (or even in the shower together ..) and find out it's all been a dream ..
Read full commentPosted in Penny's Pass The Story - Part 8.
Loved this ! Everything
Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2026
Loved this ! Everything coming together
Read full commentPosted in Penny’s Pass the Parcel - Part 7
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)
A 'what if' scenario,
Posted on Fri, 04 Sep 2026
A 'what if' scenario, expressed with your usual humour and eloquence. Who knows what might have happened ? You might have run off with a belly dancer from Tripoli and we wouldn't even be reading this.
Re 'you can’t have two sons with the...
Read full commentPosted in Tobruk, Or Not Tobruk?
Me too !
Posted on Mon, 31 Aug 2026
That's me too ! A big pile of books next to the bed, which I've brought home from the charity shop. I feel like Cnut trying to push back the waves sometimes.
But I like them there, I feel they define me somehow. Some people put up...
Read full commentPosted in Morning
In last year's drought there
Posted on Tue, 18 Aug 2026
In last year's drought there was a hosepipe ban in Hampshire, where my dad lives. But Southern Water were delivering water in tankers to fill up an artificial lake on an estate owned by a wealthy American who is a friend of Donald Trump. One...
Read full commentPosted in Save your Water for The Devil
Nor does Miriam Margoyles who
Posted on Tue, 18 Aug 2026
Nor does Miriam Margoyles who is also Jewish. She said 'Hitler won. He made us as bad as him.'
Read full commentPosted in Sojourn In Palestine (Welcome To Palestine!) by Alfred N.Muggins : Part 4
Born Too Late
Posted on Fri, 14 Aug 2026
How magnificently original ! I thought at the beginning you were stuck in the hold on one of your ships.
If only you had been early rather than late you could have killed two Inspiration Points with one stone.
BTW to digress as...
Read full commentPosted in That'll Be the Day
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