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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.
My stories
This Sort of Thing - April 2024 - The Gametophyte Stage
Words to tell you what to do. Words as strong as Irn Bru.
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Turn and Face the Strange
Contemplating life in a world where virtually everything’s becoming virtual.
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Catatouille
Discovering that meat isn’t necessarily murder.
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Lactobacillus Bulgaricus or Bust!
Other yoghurts are available, though scientists have proved that our Bulgarian yoghurt is by far the best in the world.
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This Sort of Thing - March 2024 - La finale
Words of comfort, words of peace. Words to fend off angry geese.
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Put on your red shoes and dance the blues
Posted on Wed, 14 Aug 2024
Oh Paul, I was just about to book a flight to England to visit my kiddies and their kiddies but your skilled description of a dsytopian state has alerted dormant brain cells and saved me the £150 that Easyjet were asking for.
Apparently...
Read full commentPosted in Leviathan
Banitsa
Posted on Fri, 02 Aug 2024
I say this with all due respect to Alfred's views and personal opinions...
We can get croissants here in Bulgaria. We can also get baked beans, Yorkshire tea and cans of John Smith's bitter. But we don't want them. We are here to merge...
Read full commentPosted in Alfred N.Muggins Becomes An Honourary Frenchman After Watching The Opening Ceremony Of The Olympics!
It wasn't all grim
Posted on Sat, 27 Jul 2024
It wasn't all grim Di. I'm glad I did it but I'm also glad that I stopped when I did. Though in hindsight it was much harder readjusting to a life back on land than it had been to adjusting to a life on the ocean wave in the first place. I've got...
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A message from Priyatelkata to Alfred
Posted on Fri, 02 Aug 2024
Priyatelkata (my partner) is French and, like her compatriots, she doesn't do things by halves. Our breakfasts at home to launch a day can be as impressive as an Olympic Games opening ceremony but without the dancers in their ridiculous costumes...
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Optimism
Posted on Fri, 02 Aug 2024
Thanks L.
My optimism dwindles but will never disappear... that goes for Crado and for the state of the world.
Read full commentPosted in Crado Come Home
Water
Posted on Wed, 31 Jul 2024
feminine and nurturing
masculine force
good or bad
Birth or death... so many contrasting features but water is always part of us.
I love how your words emphasise the extent to which...
Read full commentPosted in The power of water
Humans
Posted on Tue, 30 Jul 2024
Ah, right. The vast majority of my writing is autobiographical and I forget that other people's might not be. So I apologise for this oversight.
Observing human behaviour is something that I spend a lot of my time doing too, though the...
Read full commentPosted in Travelling Alone
The Parents
Posted on Tue, 30 Jul 2024
I get you!
We blame our parents but our parents blame their own parents,and so on. The best we can do is break the mould.
With a drawer full of Flintstones and Simpsons socks, I told my kids to scrap Fathers' Day.
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Annascaul
Posted on Wed, 31 Jul 2024
Oh, I just love it when I'm wandering Ireland and I bump into an unexpected memorial sculpture. Tom Krean in Annascaul's a great one but my favourite is the statue of Johnny Kilbane who was the World Featherweight Boxing Champion from 1912 to...
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Moving words
Posted on Tue, 30 Jul 2024
Such moving words Jenny. You did very well to write them. I don't think I would be able to touch such an awful topic.
I can sometimes see a slight trace of a motive that might make an atrocity understandable, though not forgivable, but I...
Read full commentPosted in Hold fast To Love
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