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Terence Mullan
In the movies, the people who are writers only ever drink coffee and write. I could do that. They never have to work in their garden or take their cat to the vet or go shopping in Kaufland.
Lovely words to describe such
Posted on Wed, 29 Dec 2021
Lovely words to describe such a majestic and beautiful creature. I could watch gulls for hours ... except for when they're trying to steal my kids' chips.
I really enjoyed your poem.
Read full commentPosted in the seagull
I love the way your words
Posted on Tue, 28 Dec 2021
I love the way your words describe how being able to create pictures gives you such freedom to let your imagination run wild. Each line describes how wonderful it must be to be able to draw.
I have the wild imagination and I have paper and...
Read full commentPosted in BBBB
Precious!
Posted on Tue, 28 Dec 2021
Precious!
My first ever balti pie was when we went to see Bath playing at Halesowen Town. I can't remember the score, the line up, our away kit, the weather or anything pertinent to the game but I will never forget that pie.
Read full commentPosted in The Chips at Twerton Park
I enjoyed this Rhiannon. I
Posted on Mon, 27 Dec 2021
I enjoyed this Rhiannon. I like the structure and rhyme of your poem as well as the amount of thought you have put into what food might be available and how it is prepared during a space flight.
The questionable food is one of the reasons...
Read full commentPosted in Spaceship Food
Zing being the complete
Posted on Sat, 25 Dec 2021
Zing being the complete opposite to our feeling of Zzzz during the darker days.
I love the zing of spring. It fills me with a positive vibe. I've always loved January for this reason because, no matter what the weather throws at us, the...
Read full commentPosted in Z is for Zing
The smell and sight of wood
Posted on Thu, 23 Dec 2021
The smell and sight of wood smoke is probably one of my favourite things about winter, even though it's a bit pollutiony. The smoke from the petchkas / wood stoves in our village each winter morning (except when it's windy) creates such a...
Read full commentPosted in Y is for Yule log and Yew
This is great Jenny. Your
Posted on Fri, 24 Dec 2021
This is great Jenny. Your words paint such a lovely picture of a simple old fashioned Christmas.
I hope you and yours enjoy a happy and peaceful one.
Read full commentPosted in That Christmas Feeling
When I think of X and
Posted on Thu, 23 Dec 2021
When I think of X and Christmas my mind goes back to my son’s obsession with those X-Wing Fighter things that the Hollywood spacemen went about in in Star Wars. They plastic models of them always had wee buttons on them that, when pressed, made a...
Read full commentPosted in X is for xxx
Oh, Di ...
Posted on Wed, 22 Dec 2021
Oh, Di ...
I laughed and then I cried a little when I read…
sprouts are the special bit of the Christmas meal
I despise all those crazy reveller folk who pour scorn on the lentil casserole that Priyatelka and I have...
Read full commentPosted in W is for Wrapping Paper and Wind (another go at this)
Well spotted! We always said
Posted on Thu, 23 Dec 2021
Well spotted! We always said ticker as an alternative to heart when I was a kid but I haven't heard it used for a long time. I wondered if it might be a bit obscure for people living outside of my Irish-Yorkshire family.
Read full commentPosted in Time (Clock of The Heart)
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