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Anyone who has had cats will know they bring home gifts. Why do they do that? Why don’t they just enjoy their catch in the garden? Its an age old...

'Quack! Quack!'

Nutritious fruit (tomatoes, bananas, apples …) and valued veg: tubers and tap roots – like the humble spud, edible leaves (cabbage …) seeds (peas and...

Finding the taxi was a godssend. It cut their journey time significantly as they pulled up to the docks. They had been docked there for a while but...

A vivid childhood memory. My father was a coal miner who'd had a hard life, and along the way he missed out on expressing emotions.

I've been out of circulation for long now well more than a decade, I've been isolated from society and am in safe keeping you might say, doing well I...

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16/4/21 (21/10/21) Henry confided in his friend Alfred that he was becoming weary of his position as King. Everyone expected him to know the answer...

We’ll never know why Dad went out to the vegetable garden. Maybe to see how the cabbages were doing, or to plan the next crop. Maybe just to think. He used to say that being out among living things just quietly growing was a good exercise in contemplation.