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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.
As in the story of The
Posted on Mon, 13 Dec 2021
As in the story of The Princess And The Pea?
The technology that young people have today would have been considered as Space Age stuff when I was a kid. I'm not a complete technophobe but these days I often feel as though I am being left...
Read full commentPosted in I'm Not A Princess.
It's awful. I remember when I
Posted on Sat, 11 Dec 2021
It's awful. I remember when I lived in Wiltshire in England it seemed that a couple of times a year a car full of teenagers would be involved in a fatal accident very late at night.
I could always imagine the circumstances leading up to...
Read full commentPosted in The Seat Belt.
My feelings entirely!
Posted on Sun, 12 Dec 2021
My feelings entirely!
You can say you don't like any other time or day of the year and people will say 'Ah well. Never mind.' But we are not allowed to not like Christmas. 'Bah, humbug!' is the response we get from the revellers, which...
Read full commentPosted in The Mouth of Christmas
And then there's the
Posted on Sat, 11 Dec 2021
And then there's the beautiful music of Franz Liszt. If it wasn't for him we'd all be Lisztless.
Read full commentPosted in L is for Letters (to North Pole) and Lichen
This captures my imagination
Posted on Sat, 11 Dec 2021
This captures my imagination more and more as it gets harder and harder.
I might have mentioned that there are eleven time zones in Russia.
Also, three of the houses that I have lived in have been No 11 ... but very few people know...
Read full commentPosted in 11
This is such a sad story
Posted on Sat, 11 Dec 2021
This is such a sad story Grace, and frightening. I know from experience the dangers that our kids can get into whilst growing up. Mine have all reached their thirties now and are unscathed. Having babies is their latest way of putting my nerves...
Read full commentPosted in The Seat Belt.
Ah now, Christmas just wouldn
Posted on Sun, 12 Dec 2021
Ah now, Christmas just wouldn't be right without a bit of Michael Bublé and those jumpers. I'm sure that if Bill added these to his own festive arrangements his girlfriend would come running back to him.
An engaging read Paul. I'm looking...
Read full commentPosted in Saints and Sinners - A Christmas Fable (Part One of Two)
I love how your few lovely
Posted on Fri, 10 Dec 2021
I love how your few lovely words can flood my mind with thoughts.
Two lines remind me of my children's excitement in late December when they were young.
Two more take me to those beautiful creatures that wake me early with their...
Read full commentPosted in J is for Jingle Bells and Jackdaws (another go at this)
How inconsiderate of Saint
Posted on Thu, 09 Dec 2021
How inconsiderate of Saint Etienne!
I could compile quite a list of gigs I've missed because of kids' birthdays, people's anniversaries, falling off my bike and breaking my ribs, Diana's funeral and, more recently, the Covid virus. But I...
Read full commentPosted in Playlist: For a Road Trip in Spring
Good morning.
Posted on Thu, 09 Dec 2021
Good morning!
This looks like a great playlist. Some tracks and artists I know, but many I don't, and wherever David Bowie, who I have loved for fifty years, appears I'm always keen to listen.
I'll give them all a whirl on Spotify...
Read full commentPosted in Playlist: For a Road Trip in Spring
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