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Terence Mullan
The toothless old widow who sits beneath the pomegranate tree in the square confided in me, ‘Snow and ice in April will hurt the tender shoots of our hostas but they’ll return even stronger under the Balkan sunshine’s healing rays.’ The old man sitting beside her with a cigarette lodged neatly in one of the gaps in his front teeth casually added, ‘Hosta la vista, baby!’
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
Excellent words that could be
Posted on Mon, 01 Nov 2021
Excellent words that could be describing the sad plight of any of hundreds of small towns in the North of England or the former industrial bits of Britain.
I have nothing against horses but your line 'there was even a place to turn horses...
Read full commentPosted in A Northern Song
I re-read parts one and two
Posted on Sun, 31 Oct 2021
I re-read parts one and two immediately before reading this, part three, and found the story in its entirety quite gripping.
I particularly enjoyed your descriptions of John’s mangled body, the crow and the eerie place where they met. This...
Read full commentPosted in The Black Crow of Purgatory (Part 3 of 3)
Hardworking daughters and
Posted on Thu, 28 Oct 2021
Hardworking daughters and unscrupulous driving instructors. We have experience of this in my family too.
Good luck to Meghan with the new job and any future driving instructors, and good on you for being the caring parent.
Read full commentPosted in That's R$CH!!!!
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