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Mr Broome from The DTP

Posted on November 30, 2025November 30, 2025 by admin

This Nether Oak Close story came from a Sunday morning random music selection of Jim Croce’s “Lover’s cross” .. the line “Pages where mean for turning” echoed across the years from when I heard it first and this story appeared in my noggin .. Click Read More to find out all about the department of turning the page

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The Day We Lost Morning

Posted on November 29, 2025November 29, 2025 by admin

Another adventure down Nether Oak Close, where we meet the children from number 16 and have a Winne the Pooh adventure in the forest at the end of the cul-de-sac and we meet Bríd the goddess of goddess of being clever, and of stories told properly

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Norman Pricklethorn and the great Worry Famine of 2025

Posted on November 28, 2025November 28, 2025 by admin

Norman Pricklethorn is one of the world’s amateur worriers, a professional overthinker, and reigning champion of his local community centre’s “Catastrophize Like a Pro!” workshop, woke at precisely 6:03 a.m., as he always did. He stretched, rubbed his eyes, and reached for his pride and joy: The List. In Norman’s head it was always written…

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Lucien from CAP

Posted on November 27, 2025November 28, 2025 by admin

I have just completed a compulsory “Business Ethics” course which has a “Moral Dillema” quiz at the end. Which set me to wondering what if there was a department of ethical dilemmas that monitored our choices.. This story formed in my head .. You can see if if you click READ MORE 🙂

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Christmas shopping has changed

Posted on November 23, 2025November 23, 2025 by admin

A 2025 Shopping trip in late November reminds me of the shoppiing trips in the 70’s which were markedly different in Northern ireland , find out what I mean by clicking “Read More”

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Saturdays from long ago remembered

Posted on November 22, 2025November 30, 2025 by admin

I remember Saturday afternoons from long ago and I smile .. click read more to find out why

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Silence is a good thing

Posted on November 22, 2025November 22, 2025 by admin

I consider the power of silence as the space where creation happens

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Conn and the Pearl of the Drowned House

Posted on November 21, 2025November 21, 2025 by admin

A retelling of story of the meremaid of the North Coast of Ireland and her otter Conn and a trip to Rathlin from he perspective of Conn, first of the Irish Otters or madraí uisce in Gaelic

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Memories of trips to see Takabuti in Belfast

Posted on November 19, 2025November 19, 2025 by admin

I was reminded today about the Ulster Mseum in Belfast and the trips I was taken on at school , the one abiding memory is of the Egytian Mummy Takabuti .. click Read More below

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How the land endures

Posted on November 18, 2025November 18, 2025 by admin

One of my many walks is “up trostan” on the Antrim Plateau. it used to be a hive of industy but now only fading remnants remain, hinting at a more industrial past. Click Read More to see my thoughts

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