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Terence Mullan
I shaved my head again today. I shave it every couple of months to disguise the fact that I’m going bald.
Scary!
Posted on Fri, 24 May 2024
I think it was that great philosopher, Sting, who once wrote / sang, There's no such thing as a winnable war.
This is a great read Paul. Your very descriptive words create a situation as worrying and scary as the sitution in real...
Read full commentPosted in The 16:03 to Purgatory (Part Two of Two)
A walk throught the woods
Posted on Wed, 22 May 2024
A walk throught the woods brought to life beautifully by your words Jenny.
A lovely, enjoyable read.
Read full commentPosted in State Of Bliss
Artichokes
Posted on Wed, 15 May 2024
Your wish is my command, so I've booked a shipping container for you.
Read full commentPosted in This Sort of Thing - April 2024 - The Sporophyte Stage
Memories
Posted on Wed, 15 May 2024
Hello Jenny.
The first couple of lines of your poem brought to my mind Cher's song 'If I Could Turn Back Time' and the video that accompanied it, so I imagined you dancing around in your cozzie with two thousand American sailors on the...
Read full commentPosted in Waterfall
Resting places
Posted on Wed, 15 May 2024
Isn't it lovely to have a special place like this? A place to sit and unwind and take in the wonder of the things that surround us. I don't know if it's an age thing but these days whenever I plan a journey, either on foot or by other means, I...
Read full commentPosted in Time-out Spot
An unexpected adventure. It's
Posted on Mon, 13 May 2024
An unexpected adventure. It's funny how a satnav can make us braver. It's good to know where we are especially if it's not where we expected to be.
When I lived in Wiltshire and my kids all living in Greater Manchester and Lancashire were...
Read full commentPosted in Capricious Satnav
Flying
Posted on Tue, 07 May 2024
Many of my dreams are about going back to work at one of the many jobs I've had in my life. Potentially nightmares but they seem to be happier than when I was there in real life.
Priyatelkata has built a website about dreams. She's no real...
Read full commentPosted in Complex Dream
Behind flickering eyelids.
Posted on Tue, 07 May 2024
It's incredible the weird and wonderful places that dreams take us. Sometimes they take me to places I've been to in the past and sometimes they take me to places I've never been but which I've dreamed about in the past.
I wish there was...
Read full commentPosted in Complex Dream
I too am a migrant
Posted on Sat, 04 May 2024
I too am a migrant
They soon let me in
See I have my visa
In the form of white skin
Read full commentPosted in When we Felt Sorry for Them
Trees
Posted on Sun, 28 Apr 2024
The most uplifting bit of human optimism I have ever witnessed was when I was in Madagascar and we visited a forest where baobab trees were growing. They had specimens that had been growing there for more than six hundred years. One tree, they...
Read full commentPosted in Connecting With Trees
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