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A Father Who Was A Scrooge
It was a terrible thing that a horrible man did. He never bought Christmas gifts for his kids. Some people called him a Scrooge and others called him...
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A Father's Christmas...
A seasonal poem about someone who is not happy about the 'winterfest'...
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Life Is Good In Our House
Life Is Good In Our House By Paul McCann' Life around our little home gets busier everyday with activities and people calling in to say G’day. We...
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Driving Home for Chris
Fish and ducks and rock and roll.
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Seedpods On Luniasa
Seedpods On Luniasa By Paul McCann Don , Margaret , Alan , Cecil and Jackie were five of the world’s leading scientific based horticulturists who...
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Colonies
Time. Time had obviously passed since the last memory. The campus was now home to nineteen Lores and nineteen Chars; it had grown somewhat, now...
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Christmas
Christmas time your making all my dream come true just being with you I am so happy I am with you and when I look at the stars in the sky they remind...
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Christmas Is Coming
A Poem For The Young At Heart Just a bit of fun to welcome the Season. Whilst up on the hillside ridge of snow, Could clearly see my house down below...
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Trip to see 'The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe' Stirs Many Memories and Passions for Alfred Muggins!
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17/10/25 At the Lyceum Theatre in Sheffield, the city of his birth, and most of his life, even though much of the city centre was now unrecognisable...
Pondering above the Wye
Winter vista through bare trees … Hills surround, unmoved – they witness lush fields dormant, city restless – …
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Art History
A story of love, loss and tenderness...
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Holly and Oak
The sun, wrapped tight in swaddling bands Cradles low where the shadows dwell As the Holly King at his glorious peak Stirs sleeping limbs with...
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Tom All Alone (8) (ii)
The dinner was the next most exciting part of Christmas for Tom. He loved all the rituals of it. Dad carving up the turkey and putting some on each...
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Tom All Alone (8) (i)
Continuing my novel based on my childhood in South London in the 1960s. Christmas Day. Nan's scullery downstairs sweated and heaved with the heat and...
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Slingshot
Outside. Almost immediately after returning, The First and the other Lores had been ejected from the diner, finding themselves huddled around in the...
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The UFO Bible 4
After two years of working at Mr. Weathercock's school Michael decided that he didn't really have it in him to be a teacher. He borrowed the books...
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The Mystery in Astley Wood
A ghost story
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Letter from Frankincense & Myrrh, Solicitors
A solicitor's letter on behalf of a certain Mr S. Claus of Lapland in reply to 'Tommy's' wish list
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Winter Solstice (2 Haikus)
The shortest day, then Greyish, grim, sunless winter- It's still light outside! The rain is coming, But optimists tell us that- the sky's not dark...
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Hope
On a bridge in a park full of people an angel came and spoke to me. Through the mist her quiet words brought sunlight full of warmth and kindness. On...
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