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Empty Homes

For the year of 2023, Transparency International’s corruption perceptions index (which ranks countries by experts’ views of possible corruption in...
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Roots

I walk up the slightly muddy path towards the kissing gate. This is such a familiar route my feet seem to know how to avoid the wettest spots. Tom...
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Erazofuge

‘It was my uncle who invented it, Uncle Clive, he’s always been a very..unusual man, very clever. He designed the font that they use on tax forms...
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Ruler serves

“You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord’ and rightly so. … I, your Teacher and Lord have washed your feet. I have set you an example" … Authority and humble servant, wisdom and compassion, all power and gentleness.
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17.2 Domino Effect

According to the KGB report, Jaco Ferre was a barber from Badalona who started this profession at his age of 16. He always carried a lunchbox bag of...

How To Become

How To Become? It is such a laughable matter, having discovered the healing power in laughter. This laughter swells up at the appropriate time. And...

I Did It Today.

I did it this morning, and when I did, I realized I hadn’t done it for a long time. I used to do it a lot when I was at school, and so did a lot of...

Destiny and Linnea Harrison.

Yesterday was my day off, I decided to go to my favourite shop, TKMaxx, to get to the one I wanted to go to, I only go by train. It is quick and when...

When Did Our World Become SO Complicated? Part Two.

I felt like this morning I sort of had an epiphany! The thought that suddenly came to my mind, I decided to act upon it. I decided instead of going...

Brutal Honesty

The staff union president and also my supposedly personal mentor, sat down in my office “I am going to be brutally honest with you”, “Some of your...
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The Gate

I’d walked past the mysterious looking gate in the wall for years on my way to and from school. I mean, it wasn’t that mysterious as I knew it was...

17.1 Domino Effect

Torrential rain wreaked the city in the beginning of November 1962, riverbanks crumpled and suddenly, River Vardar flooded the city and its entire...

Treachery at Wuhan. Ch. # 10 Freeing the Lads

Chapter # 10 - Liberating the Lads Two nights later, another full Special Ops “A Team” would follow Captain Gengler, onto the beach at Wuhan. The...

Such is Life and Life is Such

When once I sought the Holy Grail, I'm now more likely to piss in a pail. Moved before to rapture by the endless dale, I put up two fingers to the...
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Above Pencombe, a cold day

23/3/24 Ramble around Hegdon Hill in the cold, views over gentle country east to the Malverns, west to the far Black Mountains, sunlight rays...
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A Devil of a Man (12) - A Handsome Knight

Knightly love in a warm climate. (Image from Wikimedia Commons in the public domain)
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16.2 Active Measures

According to the report, Bradley withdrew from forwarding sensitive information after the Cuban Missile Crisis. In October 1962, an American U-2...

The Doves Cou

The Doves Cou By Paul McCann See the dove high up above asleep in the old oak tree . Secure she'll be until the dawn sleeping quite contently . Sleep...

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