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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 Targovishte Quandary - Part 1 of 3
My dark and disturbing encounter in Eastern Europe.
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The Treadmills of My Mind
It’s that ole devil called insomnia again, where I’m entertained by the dark columns of the world’s problem page.
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Patrick Kavanagh and Me
I’ve got to give a bit of credit for the first line of this to the late Mr Patrick Kavanagh of 62 Pembroke Road, Dublin. It’s from his poem Canal Bank Walk , written in 1954.
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My Verbal Diary Here
I couldn’t match the style of Jenny Skinner’s diary entries but I hope this helps to cheer her up a bit while she’s feeling under the weather.
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Yantra Mantra
Oh Yantra, river of my dreams...
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Grand
Posted on Mon, 17 Jun 2024
William Butler Yeats is alive and well and living in Northampton!
Grand words Paul.
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Homeless
Posted on Mon, 10 Jun 2024
In Bulgaria (and in all countries that follow Eastern Orthodox Christianity) Easter fell on the first weekend in May this year so we were virtually guaranteed hot sunny days. Local boys Saints Cyril and Methodius like it that way.
Please...
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Unputdownable
Posted on Sun, 09 Jun 2024
But, scientifically speaking, summer doesn't even start for another twelve days. You'll have no books left unread for the real autumn. Maybe you'll find some unputdownable cleaning products.
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Rusty nails
Posted on Sun, 09 Jun 2024
Aww Jenny, I'm really sorry to hear that you're feeling rough and I hope you're quickly feeling better.
A rusty nail, by the way, is the name of a cocktail made from whiskey and Drambuie, so maybe you need to swallow a few more.
It...
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Easter Rising
Posted on Thu, 06 Jun 2024
Poor Alfred. As if careworkers didn't have enough on their plates without having to sort out the Middle East crisis. It says in the Bible somewhere that we should cease working when we get to age fifty, so if Alfred sticks with that he'll be...
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The webuybooks thing
Posted on Thu, 06 Jun 2024
Ah, the webuybooks thing! I was surprised to get as much as 50p for some of fhe stuff I was re-homing. Kids books mostly that they left behind when they flew the nest. But some lovely old hardback jobs that my Ma left behind weren't even...
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The Gandhi family
Posted on Wed, 05 Jun 2024
Joan would have been dismayed if Mahatma Gandhi had made the pancakes. Surely that was the work for Mrs Gandhi.But maybe there wasn't a Mrs Gandhi to cook for him, which would explain why he was so thin.
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The mother-in-law
Posted on Wed, 05 Jun 2024
We have an English friend here who does Sudoku. She admits that sometimes it's a bit of a waste of time but says at least it gives her something to think about while she's talking to her mother-in-law on Skype.
Les Dawson lives on!
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Curry tales
Posted on Wed, 05 Jun 2024
Ah, thanks Jenny.
Strange that both you and Insert have said that Joan reminds you of your ex-mothers in law. Maybe they were all the same person.
My dad used to love curry but no other adults in the family did and it was assumed...
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Books like that
Posted on Tue, 21 May 2024
With books like that around, the world has no place for all the artificial intelligence nonsense that's going on.
But will we get to read what appears on its blank pages?
A great idea and a great read.
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