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Time-out Spot

“Halfway up the slope is a spot where I stop. It isn’t at the bottom, it isn’t at the top. It isn’t in the town, nor yet up on the hill, but this is...
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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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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, “...

The Black Kite

This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. This photo was taken by Andreas Trepte, www.avi-fauna.info .
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A Son at Gretl's Bedside

No, it's not about a fairy tale. Image made at Canva.com using PD elements.
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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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A Trip through Old Florida

Babcock Ranch Excursion We set out from Estero at 10:30 A.M. and followed Rte. # 75 north. We exited onto Bayshore Rd., following it east to Rte. #31...

Cancelled Comics?

We never would have got the joke If childrens’ comics had been ‘woked’ Back in our rose-tinted childhood days When being old was far away. Dennis was...
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Cherry

Lookit!

At fifteen, I saw, far away, through the lens of naivety, what I believed was a pair of stars. A discovery that would make me the toast of the...
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Capricious Satnav

We set out our route on the satnav to travel home next day from north-coast Pembrokeshire, an easterly wriggly way. Next morning as we drove along...