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Terence Mullan
During the hot Balkan afternoons it’s grand to lie on the settee with jugs of glacial tea and a summer soundtrack. Joni Mitchell, Joseph Canteloube, Bob Marley and Mississippi John Hurt on scratchy vinyl all sooth as Pavlovian mosquitos snarl from their sides of insect screens.
Those afternoons will be back soon, I hope. I don't care for this having to wear socks nonsense.
My stories
The Great Falafel Kerfuffle
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Eight.
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Just Deserts
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Seven.
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Razzmatazzed in Yaz’d
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Six.
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The Iran - Tie Rack War
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Five.
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Only Here for The Poets
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Four.
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Sober inebriatist, drunken teetotalist
Posted on Tue, 23 Jul 2024
Excellent words containing a lot of very well thought out rhyme that frantically jumps off the page to emphasise the utter desperation.
Silent Death recaps his ink... a brilliant penultimate line!
I'm not sure if enjoyed is...
Read full commentPosted in BREAK DOWN OF A BREAKDOWN
The hole in the ground
Posted on Mon, 22 Jul 2024
Our garden is indeed very big. Friends tell us it is more like a park than a garden. We have hundreds of trees so maybe to be buried under one of the smaller walnuts will be a possibility, though I'd prefer the big ancient one that I often sit...
Read full commentPosted in Tilly.
Roots
Posted on Mon, 22 Jul 2024
It's emotional blackmail. The vets know that people with raw emotions will find the money.
We just bury ours in the garden. There's even a space for me. It's just beside the redcurrant bushes. I would have preferred to be beneath the...
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Sheds
Posted on Sun, 21 Jul 2024
I had thought about writing a story just like yours but it would have meant sorting our shed out a bit first which would be quite a task so I'll just read yours.
Intriguing stuff it is too!
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Eric's PTSD
Posted on Fri, 19 Jul 2024
I think grumpy old Eric had PTSD long before the outbreak of World War Two and the Icelanders only shot him (no one else, as he could recall) so that he'd go home. During the years that I was living near to Bath the majority of the buses there...
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Cheryl
Posted on Fri, 19 Jul 2024
Is it Cheryl from Bucks Fizz?
Read full commentPosted in The Mighty!
Ticket trouble
Posted on Fri, 19 Jul 2024
Back in the day the perfomers would employ their own people to distribute and sell their tickets but now they keep their overheads down by washing their hands of the responsibility and handing it over to an agency. Inflated prices and unrealistic...
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Wealthy mates
Posted on Fri, 19 Jul 2024
Aww, have a heart! I'm sure the people at the ticket agency were only trying to fit in with their mates at all the other big organisations that have shown total disrespect for their customers in order to accumulate vulgar amounts of wealth.
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The Mad Monk
Posted on Thu, 18 Jul 2024
It would be terrible of me to take any credit for the words of the poem about the Mad Monk.
I offer my sincere apologies to Alfred and to any reader who feels they might have been misled.
Clicking on the link will reveal the...
Read full commentPosted in Pearly Gates : A Tour of Russia’s Hell by Alfred N.Muggins Part 3
Euro 28
Posted on Thu, 18 Jul 2024
I'm quietly confident that the final of the Euro 28 tournament will be Malta vs Bulgaria.
Read full commentPosted in Explained.
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