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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.

 

656 of my comments have received 687 Great Feedback votes

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I feel your pain Ewan.

Posted on Fri, 31 Dec 2021

I feel your pain Ewan.

Bat Out of Hell was a monster and released round about the same time as the soundtracks to Grease and Saturday Night Fever making the summer of 1978 a golden age of awful music that just...

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Posted in Earworms

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Does Mr A.N.Muggins always

Posted on Wed, 29 Dec 2021

Does Mr A.N.Muggins always tell ya that the old songs are the best? Then he's up and rock 'n' rollin' with the rest?

I hope you had a merry old time.

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Posted in Merry Christmas Everybody! (Christmases Past and Present) by Mr A.N.Muggins

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My partner is French and she

Posted on Wed, 29 Dec 2021

My partner is French and she loves Brussels sprouts. It's all beginning to make sense now. If all the Brussels sprouts had been in Iraq (the country, not the fridge) then Blair and Bush would have had a better reason for the destruction.

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Posted in The Countdown Is On : Advanced Planning For Christmas At The Muggins' Home (The Water Melon!) by Alfred Muggins

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Really lovely words to

Posted on Thu, 30 Dec 2021

Really lovely words to describe such a parasite.

I particularly liked ...

these tree thieves sip upon

the destiny of their branches

It fascinates me how nature can send something so small to do so...

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Posted in Mistletoe

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It was as if George the Third

Posted on Thu, 30 Dec 2021

It was as if George the Third and his cronies were selling England by the pound.

A good read.

Good on you!

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Posted in Philadelphia Freedom and Phil Collins

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I would much rather put my

Posted on Thu, 30 Dec 2021

I would much rather put my phone in the drawer for a final time and instead carry a camera, read a map, wear a watch, listen to vinyl albums on a turntable, etc. but sadly these big global telecommunications companies have got us by the Nureyevs...

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Posted in Haemorrhoid Android

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I have to be thankful for the

Posted on Wed, 29 Dec 2021

I have to be thankful for the standard of my dear old ma's cooking because it was she who inspired me to learn to cook myself. I would have died of starvation if I hadn't.

Her burn't rice pudding was nice though.

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Posted in Like Mamma Used to Make

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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. 

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Posted in the seagull

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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...

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Posted in BBBB

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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.

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Posted in The Chips at Twerton Park

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