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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
Shenanigans with Catkins
January 2025 (the latter part) and the things that I saw and did in my usual one hundred words per day sort of way.
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The Mandarin Cherries
January 2025 (the early part) and the things that I saw and did in my usual one hundred words per day sort of way.
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Eleven Thousand Silent Playmates
When an old song revives a memory that uncovers an astonishing secret. You might call this a sequel, or even a prequel, to Making Do with Dusty Springfield.
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Making Do with Dusty Springfield
Remembering Patricia, a young Middlesbrough girl with great dreams. I hope her best ones came true.
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All the Chai in China
The last half of the last twelfth of 2024, described at a rate of one hundred words per day.
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For years I worked with
Posted on Wed, 27 Oct 2021
For years I worked with elderly people and seeing them caught by dementia used to break my heart. Your words describing your Mum's situation have brought back so many memories of complete strangers who I came to love before slowly but ultimately...
Read full commentPosted in Blessings Dear Late Mum And Dad
I love reading diaries.
Posted on Sat, 23 Oct 2021
A long, long time ago I worked on ships. Working and living with people in such close proximity for six to eight months at a time whilst thousands of miles from home made me feel I got a deep understanding of, and closeness to, colleagues that I...
Read full commentPosted in That Was Genesis
A nice bit of secrecy.
Posted on Tue, 12 Oct 2021
I really enjoyed your poem Rhiannon. It hadn't crossed my mind that adults speaking in code in front of their kids was a form of keeping things secret. I remember it being a struggle with my kids, and then an even bigger struggle when they...
Read full commentPosted in Little ears are listening!
And now for my next tick...
Posted on Wed, 07 May 2025
Ah now, I'm delighted by this news. I've been confined to the house most of the day by a huge thunderstorm so this has fair cheered me up.
Many thanks to you, your cat and your blackbird.
Read full commentPosted in The Fish on the Hill
Bravo!
Posted on Tue, 06 May 2025
Very well done Jane. Fingers crossed here for the book. Unlike IPFN, I do have a hat to eat if it doesn't get published but hats tend to give me indigestion, especially sombreros.
And it will get published anyway.
Read full commentPosted in Parcel for You - Part 61 (the end)
Ar Zhao
Posted on Wed, 07 May 2025
Ayup ar Zhao! Is tha lakin' at snooker terneet?
Read full commentPosted in English.
Energetic
Posted on Thu, 01 May 2025
Isn't energetic just the perfect word for describing the spring?
A great poem Jenny. Congratulations on all the accolades.
Read full commentPosted in Triumphant Folly In The Park
Old Quarry
Posted on Fri, 25 Apr 2025
We never know what characters hide behind those scary faces. Better safe than sorry, every time for children and adults.
When I was nine and living in York, a lorry driver stopped and offered me a lift. I often think back and wonder what...
Read full commentPosted in More Than We Bargained For
Scary stuff
Posted on Fri, 25 Apr 2025
Such a shame that a lovely adventure should go so horribly wrong. You did right to run away as it could have gone even more horribly wrong. A story of two extremes, and quite disturbing as we never know what is out there. We live in a scary world...
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Petty cash
Posted on Thu, 17 Apr 2025
The money I gave to Kavinda was approximately one tenth of my weekly wage at the time, so not much at all to me but a fortune to him.
I've written part three but it's too big to fit within the parameters of an ABC post so I've split it and...
Read full commentPosted in Taking Tea - Kavinda and Me
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