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The Shampoo Haiku

In order to save the planet, certain shampoo manufacturers have started packaging in hard bottles. I don’t know the composition exactly, half bamboo...
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This Sort of Thing - April 2024 - The Sporophyte Stage

Eat your words but don't go hungry. Words can make you grow rotundly.

Slices Of Life. Julie Foot. Part One

Many years ago, my manager, said to me, “Ring the local chiropodist, and ask him to come and cut everyone’s toe nails.” I rang him and he replied, “...
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Le Merle Noir

In ‘Bird by Bird’, Anne Lamott mentions someone called Wallace Stevens. I had to Google in order to get the joke. He was a poet who worked in...
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This Sort of Thing - April 2024 - The Gametophyte Stage

Words to tell you what to do. Words as strong as Irn Bru.
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The Nature of Feelings

The grass was still glistening with dew in the walled garden. I was early. It’s a Boomer thing. Plus, you must allow for stuck-behind-a-tractor...
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Informed Rituals

I should have known from the psychedelic colours in the gorse that a migraine was coming. I haven’t had a migraine in years, so didn’t twig. I...

The Mushroom.

This morning a friend took me to The Harvester for breakfast. I don’t go very often the last time I went to one, was last year for my birthday, my...
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We Are Where We Are, and All is Well

Today was a blue-green yellow day. The north wind whipped itself back to Svalbard and had left us in deep hush. I have a favourite writing exercise;...