Ed Crane
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Waiting for the Flyers Part 11 Life on the Move
Although I started my “diary” just before my twelfth birthday I’d been on the move with Marge since 2038. Six years of my life undocumented – at...
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Waiting for the Flyers - Part 10 Memories
The meeting with David ended with an agreement for him to come to my home as soon as I could leave Sophie’s care to read through the diary I’d kept...
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Bluebell Woods
Haiku for spring (sorry unable to paste Japanese text)
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Waiting For the Flyers Part 9 A Northern View
‘Your experiences of the world outside ours could be a great help. The big cities, Manchester for example. I know everything about them, but only...
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Waiting for the Flyers. Part 8 (David's opposite polarity)
Shifting position in the chair, David pulled his battered phone from his pocket. While staring at the illuminated screen he dabbed his eyes and, like...
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Thanks Drew
Posted on Wed, 26 Aug 2020
Glad you liked this.
I do have a background to this story in mind, We'll see if I can make it into something, Prequels and sequels need careful planning if they are going to work it seems to me.
Cheers
Ed
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Hi Ewan
Posted on Tue, 04 Aug 2020
I'm glad you like this and thank you very much appreciate the golden cherries, which I never expected.
Regarding night-lite, I got to thinking nite-lite was under copyright, but it seems many companies use this term, so I will change the...
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A very lovely and informative poem
Posted on Sat, 01 Aug 2020
I really admire the way you subtley demonise the arrogance of imperialism and colonialism. It reminded me of the twinge of shame I felt the first time I saw The Gateway to India monument in Mumbai.
However, I think the outstanding gem of...
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Thanks Penny
Posted on Fri, 31 Jul 2020
Yes they were good times (mostly) in Las Palmas. Not the prettiest city but a great place all the same (cockroaches and all). the island of Grand Canaria is very interesting, However, after the move to Lanzarote and visiting some of the other...
Read full commentPosted in Cherry Dreamin'
You do Vultures proud with this brilliant poem, Rachel
Posted on Fri, 31 Jul 2020
They are magnificent birds and they provide a real service for all animals on Earth including us. We revile them for seaching out and eating dead and rotting flesh, but forget the amount of diseases they prevent by cleaning discarded carcasses....
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Don't tell me they are asking questions about thermodynamics
Posted on Thu, 11 Jun 2020
(Lays down in a darkened room)
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I can't tolerate intolerance!
Posted on Sun, 14 Jun 2020
When a group of perfectly normal people are sytematically treated as different outsiders you have to expect a reaction because perfectly normal people will always feel the need to protect themselves and each other.Those reactions -- even extreme...
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Morning Nicky
Posted on Sat, 13 Jun 2020
I always have to smile when I see our resident magpies belittling the neighbour's mog.
She doesn't stand a chance, those yobbish birds are too clever for her.
Glad you liked my strepped dolphin. Thanks for reading about my mobsters...
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I like the sound of cicadas as long as I'm not too near one.
Posted on Sat, 13 Jun 2020
Clever the way you have paralled our lives with that of cicadas, luckily we don't have to spend 17 years underground like some of them do, but as you say, in a way we do bury ourselves in our lives and work for years and sometimes things happen...
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Very clever poem Ewan
Posted on Mon, 08 Jun 2020
It is surprising and comforting in the way nature so quickly re-takes it's space. Reading this reminded me of the time not so long ago when Eyjafjallajökull erupted and we had aircraft free skies for a few days. I recall sitting in the garden and...
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