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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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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)
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...
Read full commentPosted in Sleeping Beauty
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.
Jeremy Bowen
Posted on Wed, 14 Jan 2026
I read an article on the BBC website the other day by veteran war correspondent Jeremy Bowen. He said that in his 50 years of reporting on wars around the globe he's never seen a year like 2025. He was talking about existing conflicts not...
Read full commentPosted in Gloom and Doom (sorry)
Having been brought up a
Posted on Sun, 18 Jan 2026
Having been brought up a Catholic and gone to convent school, we were taught that suicide was a sin, and if you killed yourself you couldn't go to heaven. Which makes Patricia's suicide even worse, were that possible. A 14 year old girl must be...
Read full commentPosted in Letter to Ann Lovett (1968 - 1984)
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