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Man Mountain
Image from Wikimedia Common in the public domain. Source El Grafico del 17 de Noviembre de 1934. Edition 801
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The Devil's Hat
And the world did nothing...
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Inner Smile, Outer Smile
Why are routines so hard to make and so easy to break? The second Leith Hall outdoor yoga session was today. Have I been pressing heels down recently...
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Dangers in the dark
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] What dangers when confusion reigns, and argument concerning what is good and right, rebellious claims that...
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Just Be
Just Be Relaxation with a sigh; response. Body-mind in tune. Resting in cleaning the mind, where one finds solace. From all of life’s earthly basic...
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Malta. Part Three.
The only country that I have ever wanted to go to in the world, was Malta. As a surprise, my daughter Meghan, surprised me, a holiday for the both of...
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Dirge for another year gone by
What do I do of these penny pastiches limp and coddled and shy from the wise seeds of wit and wonder grow these superflous weeds that stutter and...
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Careless
CARELESS Oops! Got to be Mo, freeze frame. Shit's all the same: but who’s blaming? Rabbit chasing tortoise down a rabbit's trail; in slow motion...
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Never is In The Giving Up
Never Is In The Giving Up They say that time changes things: but you actually have to change them yourself. Andy Warhol Therefore - Persevere with...
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Anyone At All
From ‘ The Scouring Tout’ column, The Martlet, March 28 Walking backwards should be uncomfortable and disorienting, and in this case, it was,...
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Void
Taking an idea, that of the voidness of some lives, into a poem.
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2084-E
Chris stood in front of the judge in the crown court. The judge was a middle aged man with a moustache and a beard. He was wearing his red gown and...
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Bus Pass Has a Birthday Treat
Bus Pass is three years old today and is feeling rather excited. By coincidence, a new ‘Søstrene Grene’ shop is opening in Aberdeen, and Bus Pass, a...
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"For, being green, there is great hope" (quote from Shakespeare's HENRY VI PART 2, ACT 3 SCENE 1)
Some people are angry that Just Stop Oil threw coloured cornflour at Stonehenge. Because the structure is old? A symbol of how humans have survived...
Alfred Muggins’ Easter Dream
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10/4/24 Bob Dylan comes on singing a hymn with keyboards and guitars, a message of peace for all sides and all hearts. Truth is spoken, and felt! The...
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1:5:3 Alterations (Part 1)
Breathe. The immediate panic the quake had caused had been short lived but was soon replaced with curiosity and questioning. Sharr’Renn picked...
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A Night To Remember (Dead Reckoning series - Part 14)
In which Samantha frets about Josiah's dinner engagement, Josiah endures an awkward drive into the Cheshire countryside and things don't end quite as expected.
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shaft of sunlight
Watch that shaft of sunlight through the smoke and dust, a bright patch slowly crawling on the wall to tell the time. ~ Waking slowly. This was...
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Escape Stupidity
Escape Stupidity: a bit like escape velocity, it's the minimum point of idiocy reached to need to leave the planet... Image author's own: collage made from images at canva.com
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Midsummer Meadow
I feel heartsore for Stonehenge, and find that behaviour frightening; targeting a new bride, an ancient monument with rare lichens. Who even thinks...
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