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Steps (Episode 28 - The Further Chronicles of a Young Lady (and her Maid))
Aefelthrith takes steps, reluctantly, and Dolly makes plans
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The School of Thought Part 1
“Where’s our teacher?” “I have no idea.” “So… we can do whatever we want this lesson?” “I think we have to solve the riddle on the board.” Harold...
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"Willow's Missing Tail" 32
Martha and Perfidia had several trays of the perfect after-midnight snack food heating in the kitchen’s large commercial size oven. Martha decided a...
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Push a Pedal
The bicycle had a puncture. I was halfway to work. It happened on the roundabout. After the second exit. Felt the air leave the tyre. Peumf. Peumf. Peumf. Disaster. I know. I know.
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Difficulties in Life
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] The furnace hot refines, and hard the cleansing heat: no cross or tribulation borne but will bring benefit...
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It ain’t where you’re from, it’s where you’re at
We tell ourselves we want change. We stare across the divide at that other life — greener, cleaner, fuller, freer — and we feel the ground beneath us...
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Riddles
In 1984, Nick Kershaw’s The Riddle was in the charts - a mysterious, catchy song full of apparently profound but entirely nonsensical lyrics. It...
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A Puzzling Story
And a puzzled reader.
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5p.
Was walking past one of my favourite jewellery shops, when I noticed they had a sale on. There was something I recently wanted to buy, I wondered if...
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Elementary, My Dear Fred
I stood in front of my neighbor’s door - as is my want on a Saturday morning, when in need of fresh eggs for my famed kipper omelet—and read the note...
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Who am I?
My first is in ‘ timid’, but that I’m not …
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The flag
You may think differently to me we need to talk about the flag and it's symbolism But let’s work towards the benefit of all you are not my enemy Let...
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The language of the leaves
In the ruins of our century, the forests began to write again. Their script was neither ink nor binary, but a weaving of signals through sap and...
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That's Life ( Pt 1 ) Leaving: This is for Di
Dear Diary...life can never prepare you for the black clouds that can gather, leaving you feeling sad and alone, where no one understand the...
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Ghigau 15
Hermione’s eyes were closed and she bit her lip in an effort to stifle a groan. The sheets beneath her were soaked with perspiration. Even with the...
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What's In A Name?
Veronique.
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End Of An Era.
It has been many years now since my god-mother died. She was one of a kind. When you met her, you know you had been Tangoed! I have never met anyone...
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Rust and Dust 3
The Tink fell into step beside her. Something in her stirred and unsettled him. And it wasn’t just her beauty or her overpowering perfume. He’d...
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The Late Patricia Routledge
When she starred in 'Keeping Up Appearances', she did a great job. She starred as Hyacinth Bucket and Hyacinth was a snob. Patricia was a British...
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Freda Payne
Freda Payne Please return home and put your rings back on! Because the magpies above are swooping. They could peck the trinkets of our future. The...
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