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The Misunderstanding
They dumped the last of the cardboard boxes on the apartment floor, and stood up. ‘Glad that’s over’, said Sarah. ‘Thanks Holden, much appreciated...
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When your world wobbles ..
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Teeth Tales - Woohoo Thirty Two
I agree with ScoZen and Luigi we need some more entries for this challenge. So in the interest of quantity over quality here's my second one. Inspired by Blur's Song 2. (And yes, hampsteads really is cockney rhyming slang for teeth).
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Teeth Tales – a Song For My Dentist
I'll make a donation to the ABC tooth fund as an entry fee.
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Lost in Translation
Not long after my mother was widowed (not my father, this was two husbands in), I persuaded her to come on a short holiday with me. We decided on...
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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
Like Turlough, you have the
Posted on Wed, 25 Feb 2026
Like Turlough, you have the gift of bringing the mundane to life and making it fascinating, Harry. And funny. And sad. And, in this case, just a bit spooky too. Good writers can make great stories out of apparently very little material, and...
Read full commentPosted in 5. Secondhand Prose
Hi Jane
Posted on Sun, 22 Feb 2026
Hi Jane
This is very intriguing ! Looking forward to what is going to happen to them next.
I think there are a few places where it says 'sight' when it should say 'site' ? As in 'go around the edge of the sight only'. I think...
Read full commentPosted in Purple Mountain - Part 1
Jay, you remind us of the
Posted on Sat, 21 Feb 2026
Jay, you remind us of the days, before food processors and bread making machines, that we touched the food we were making, and put physical effort into it. I love to grow my own vegetables, even though they are so cheap in the supermarket, but...
Read full commentPosted in Recipe for My Daughter
Well done Kurt. A very
Posted on Thu, 19 Feb 2026
Well done Kurt. A very satisfying end for both him and his readers. Sometimes justice (in the true sense of the word) needs a nudge, and too many people just say 'not my business' and look the other way. (That's if they notice at all).
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Read full commentPosted in Courtesy Calls: The Fire Lane (2)
Working in the book section
Posted on Tue, 03 Feb 2026
Like Harry I really look forward to your Bulgarian blog too. Am a little worried about Ludo not getting a mention. I know he must be on about number twelve of his nine lives, so I hope he's ok.
Working in the book section of Cricklade...
Read full commentPosted in I Feel Like I’m Fixing to Tie-Dye My Raggy Socks
All sorts of things slip down
Posted on Sun, 01 Feb 2026
All sorts of things slip down the cracks in time and/or space. But I never thought about silence itself doing that, until I read your poem.
Personally I like the staccato delivery, I felt it was a good example of form echoing content. ...
Read full commentPosted in While I Wasn't Listening
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)
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