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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.
And the moral of the story is
Posted on Wed, 09 Aug 2023
And the moral of the story is...
If you go down to the woods today you'd better take two sandwiches with you.
Read full commentPosted in Sharing a Bite
I've been there. I tilted my
Posted on Wed, 09 Aug 2023
I've been there. I tilted my camera by a few degrees before pessing the shutter release button. Oh the confusion it caused amongst people looking at my holiday photos. Amused, I did similar in Paris and Blackpool.
Please don't topple Luigi...
Read full commentPosted in A Precarious Situation
I love this!
Posted on Tue, 08 Aug 2023
I love this!
I have worked in that place. I remember sometimes having to make the decision toilet or sandwich? There wasn't time for both. I remember wondering when I would find the time to fill in my timesheet.
I got sick of it....
Read full commentPosted in There’s a new sick line, for calling in sick apparently! By Alfred Muggins, Call Centre Agent!
Only the hardiest of folk
Posted on Wed, 09 Aug 2023
Only the hardiest of folk would swim in the sea off Northumberland, but that's how Northumbrians are.
The beaches of Northumberland are maginificent. The best beaches are the beaches that are sufficiently wild and open for you to to be...
Read full commentPosted in Farewell Sunlight's Delight
The seasons are indeed a
Posted on Wed, 09 Aug 2023
The seasons are indeed a journey. Our world changes every season but also each day of every season, as each step of any journey might reveal something new.
I like the suggestion that garden snails have found the need to take it easy; to...
Read full commentPosted in Shelter For The Weary
It's great how your poem
Posted on Wed, 09 Aug 2023
It's great how your poem takes us to a place of such peace and serenity having first introduced us to the complete opposite.
The opening lines remind me of the old Hedex painkillers advert where a poor stressed woman going about far too...
Read full commentPosted in wising up
I can understand that Jenny.
Posted on Sun, 06 Aug 2023
I can understand that Jenny. The tropical deluge yesterday aftenoon limited my movements and left me stuck in the house feeling frustrated so I have great sympathy for you and the restrictions that your health has placed upon you. I hope you...
Read full commentPosted in Water Under the Bridge
Animal or human, it's wrong
Posted on Mon, 07 Aug 2023
Animal or human, it's wrong to let them suffer. But with a human, they should have some say in the matter ... long before the time approaches. My kids know what to do with me. I've never been to Switzerland. I'm saving it 'til last.
Read full commentPosted in Two Loved Deeply. Part Two.
'Both have no voice', but
Posted on Mon, 07 Aug 2023
'Both have no voice', but both have minds and both have thoughts.
It must be absolute torture for our elderly people in this situation.
I have known so many and dread the day when it might happen to me.
A very thought-...
Read full commentPosted in Two Loved Deeply. Part One.
I can't describe how I felt
Posted on Sat, 05 Aug 2023
I can't describe how I felt Di. On that day in 2021 when I saw the newspaper article, a few days later when I read what she had written on ABC Tales and then a few weeks after that when her book arrived in the post I felt totally overwhelmed by...
Read full commentPosted in Song to My Siren
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