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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.
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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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)
The hope and fear being the
Posted on Wed, 22 Dec 2021
The hope and fear being the hope that the recipient of the gift likes it or hasn’t already got one and the fear of not being able to remember where we have put the receipt.
Your second two lines bring to mind stillness but with the...
Read full commentPosted in W is for Wrapping Paper and Wind (another go at this)
I suppose when I was wee my
Posted on Wed, 22 Dec 2021
I suppose when I was wee my first signs of doubt that Father Christmas existed where when I questioned whether someone could live in a place as deathly barren as the North Pole. All the rest of the storie seemed quite feasible.
This is a...
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