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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.
I like the way that you
Posted on Tue, 16 Nov 2021
I like the way that you remind us that December comes as more of a shock than November does. November is just the dark end of autumn with all the mystery and dreaminess that you describe so well, lulling us into a place of comfort before December...
Read full commentPosted in When November Comes (with audio)
Hello Jenny.
Posted on Tue, 16 Nov 2021
Hello Jenny.
I particularly liked your words:
the grand scheme of folklore...where nature has mutual respect.
Forests, especially oak forests, are magical places but once the thoughts of folklore join us on a walk in...
Read full commentPosted in Thoughts Of An Oak Tree's Spirit
It's sad to know that your
Posted on Wed, 10 Nov 2021
It's sad to know that your family has needed to use care homes but I'm pleased to hear that you have some good positive things to say about them. There are a few terrible places which get in the news and it leads to the good ones being tarred...
Read full commentPosted in Visiting hours 2 – 5
Long long ago when I was a
Posted on Wed, 10 Nov 2021
Long long ago when I was a working man, many of my clients were care home residents, usually suffering from dementia. Some seemed happy and many more seemed quite unhappy but whatever the case their families (if they bothered to visit them at all...
Read full commentPosted in Visiting hours 2 – 5
Hello Rhiannon.
Posted on Tue, 09 Nov 2021
Hello Rhiannon.
I've sometimes been told by those who knew my Grandad better that even if I had asked the questions I probably wouldn't have got answers. Apparently he would never talk about his time in France during World War One. He went...
Read full commentPosted in Chocolate, Tobacco and Horse Muck
You might know some other
Posted on Tue, 09 Nov 2021
You might know some other places from my past, the York chapter of which revolves around Heworth. My grandparents lived in Dodsworth Avenue, just the other side of Heworth Green from the Shoulder of Mutton, which I have just discovered is now...
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Hello Paul.
Posted on Tue, 09 Nov 2021
Hello Paul.
We were never allowed to eat Cadbury's chocolate. We were told we'd be selling our souls to the devil if we did. However, everyone's a fruit and nutcase!
Childhood memories are precious and I love it when snippets of...
Read full commentPosted in Chocolate, Tobacco and Horse Muck
As a long suffering victim of
Posted on Mon, 08 Nov 2021
As a long suffering victim of the after effects of anaglypta, I particularly liked your line ...
a dominant, assertive tone that could tear anaglypta from ceilings.
And your characters seemed so lifelike. They may be...
Read full commentPosted in A Lorry Load of Sleaze
This is very good reading. A
Posted on Thu, 04 Nov 2021
This is very good reading. A simplification of the complex mess that humanity has got itself into today. One day the buildings will get so tall that they fall over completely and then we will all have to start again from the beginning. We will...
Read full commentPosted in tall storey
I enjoyed your poem Jenny.
Posted on Mon, 08 Nov 2021
I enjoyed your poem Jenny.
Your lines ...
Of course pavements have their own mystery,
I wonder! What tales they could tell of footsteps
taken and conversations passing.
really caught...
Read full commentPosted in Inspired Walk
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