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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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Twenty Minutes at the Village Bus Stop
I'm sitting in the village bus shelter. It's twenty minutes before the bus is due, but its arrival times are as fluid as today's pouring rain, and as...
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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
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 ..
Read full commentPosted in Transition
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...
Read full commentPosted in Smokey.
No job, low wage AND a huge
Posted on Sun, 11 Jan 2026
No job, low wage, AND a huge debt of tens of thousands of pounds when they leave !
When I went to university in 1973, only 5% of school leavers went to university, so a degree was really worth having. We got a decent grant and I worked...
Read full commentPosted in The Sun, Moon, & Stars.
Real jobs
Posted on Sun, 11 Jan 2026
We definitely need more school leavers (girls as well as boys) to become plumbers, electricians, car mechanics, lorry drivers etc. Job security, plenty of work, and good wages, if you're competent. Much better than going to University IMHO. ...
Read full commentPosted in The Sun, Moon, & Stars.
Yup Modern Life
Posted on Sun, 11 Jan 2026
Spot on Harry.
I've just been to the gym and sometimes I'm the only one in there not staring at a phone. I mean most people are actually using the equipment whilst scrolling and staring.
I suppose you could say nobody goes...
Read full commentPosted in Waiting for Godot 2026
The Triumph of Evil
Posted on Fri, 09 Jan 2026
I know Mark, there were lots of other words I could have used -'hypocrisy' is an obvious one. 'State sponsored terrorism' are another three.
There's irony and hypocrisy all over the place. Trump has steamed into Venezuela and kidnapped a...
Read full commentPosted in ICE terror
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