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Ian T. James

@ijt

Dad, Granddad, socialist and musician. I’m a proud Burnley FC supporter and love watching tennis.

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Xclnt!👏👏👏😊👍

10.03.2026 08:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Who knows anything for certain on this troubled world.
I do know that I shall be listening to Rubber Soul today, so thankyou for reminding me of the joy it has brought me over the years.
😊🎸🎶

10.03.2026 07:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

... to spend
Then I guess I'd be with you my friend
If I needed someone
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I love this song along with every track on this album. It was the first Beatles album I bought (I bought it when it was first released - gives you an idea of my age!).

10.03.2026 07:49 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

TUESDAY HAIKU

The trees are in bud
Mixed scents of earth and flowers
Spring is in the air

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10.03.2026 00:21 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yet we have Tony "Dumb ass" Blair wanting to join in, along with "not nice"Tice and Kemi Badenough.
"Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

09.03.2026 13:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I couldn't agree more Katherine.

09.03.2026 13:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A win is a win Ravinder.👍😊

09.03.2026 07:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The man is a dangerous fool.

09.03.2026 07:38 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Is it insanity
Or stupidity
Or indifference?
Does random killing
Ever make
Any sense?
A man displaying senility,
With limited ability
Who dodged out of the military
Is raining down death
On people he's never met
Good people make a stand
Make him pay his debt.

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09.03.2026 01:20 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sunday at six
A cold buffet is prepared
Pork pies with pickles
And a cake that's multi-layered
Cold beef from Sunday lunch
And potato salad too
Any leftovers will do
Waste not want not is the message
I cannot disagree
We all eat in silence
Our Sunday tea.

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08.03.2026 00:24 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The US should have learnt from history by now. Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan....
The big bully on the World stage always gets a bloody nose and leaves a mess in its wake.

07.03.2026 19:09 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There are times
When all the world's asleep
When the questions run too deep
For such a simple man...

The Logical Song - Supertramp

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07.03.2026 00:08 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
a bird sitting on a tree branch looking out a hole ALT: a bird sitting on a tree branch looking out a hole

Oh! for the wings
For the wings
Of a dove?

I'd rather the wings
Of a Peregrine Falcon
Love...

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05.03.2026 09:21 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wordle wordle
Little game
Finish in one
A claim to fame
A two, a three,
Maybe a four
OK a five
My final score
At least it keeps
My run alive...

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04.03.2026 02:18 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Me too.

03.03.2026 21:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's true that we're all getting old
And our bones get creaky in the cold
But with the warmth of Summer Sun
You'll be moving free and having fun.

03.03.2026 08:46 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

TUESDAY HAIKU

Today I'll be out
Feeling the Sun's warm fingers
As I stir the soil

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03.03.2026 00:32 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Xclnt!👏👏👍😊

02.03.2026 08:11 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Xclnt!👏👏👏👍😊

02.03.2026 08:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I shall start the week as I
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02.03.2026 00:18 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's Sunday
A day of rest
So I'll put me feet up
I've done me best

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01.03.2026 01:14 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What a great song, what a unique voice. 🎶👍

28.02.2026 22:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

BRAINFADE
Alas my memory fades
At least in the short term.
Tho from when I was a boy
The memories are firm.
It's a trick that life plays on us
Or at least that's how it seems.
That the longer we all live
The more we live inside our dreams.

(Cue Roy Orbison😉)
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28.02.2026 21:02 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Cheers m’dear.😊

27.02.2026 15:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

FRIDAY HAIKU

Though rain is forecast
I like to be positive
Wait until morning

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27.02.2026 00:07 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Xclnt!👏👏👏😊👍

26.02.2026 13:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Xclnt! An all green "Troidle". 👏👏👍😊

26.02.2026 13:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I hear the voices of trees
When they sway in the breeze
Hear the fluttering
Of their leaves
As their branches creak
Their roots in the ground
Mean they can't move around
But they clean up the air
And help drain the ground
Aren't you glad they're around?

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26.02.2026 08:41 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That is a beauty, they are such an amazing flower.

25.02.2026 09:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Twinkle, twinkle little raindrop
In the sunlight in the air
Spread out your difraction pattern
Make a rainbow, fine and fair
Curved across the choppy water
Spectrum colours on display
Nature's artwork
Brightens the day.

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25.02.2026 00:31 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0