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Between Nowhere and Some Place
Between Nowhere and Some Place By Paul McCann Between nowhere and some place its time for us to go , Cause there’s nothing more to do here , in this...
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Never Ever Forever Land
Never Ever Forever Land By Paul McCann There’s a place that I know of , I’m sure you’d love to go there , To never ever forever land everyone can...
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Made In Heaven
Made In Heaven By Paul McCann The moment I saw you I knew there would be no other but you in a heart beat , there was something , and I never saw it...
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The DWQ (Dunk-Whunk Quotient)
I am a great believer that, harming none, and while amongst consenting adults, activities in the privacy of one’s own home are one’s own affair. This...
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The Spice of Life

The musings of an elderly observer of what can be seen in other people’s shopping trolleys.
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Bufo Bufo
Renewed my membership to ‘Gordon Castle Walled Garden’ on June 1 st . Pension day. Drove to the garden centre for long-tom terra cotta pots. Since it...
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As You Wish

If your life is unbearable, what do you wish for? Rewrite of something posted in response to an IP nine years ago. Old IPs never die, they just get much needed edits...
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My Groundbreaking Article
They abide in the gritty entrance of your local supermarket. How I pity them, sitting there on wire stands. A publication that seems to apologize...
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Strange dreams of past lives
I had a recurring dream as a child ,that I have a brother and that we live together in Celtic times. We explore the ruins the rural landscape and...
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6 "You'll Hear My Voice, On the Wind, 'Cross the Sand"

1000 words in total today. A long time since I've done that. Anyway, here is more of this. And I hope you've all been ear-wormed by the time you get to the end...
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The Envelope: God's Provision
The early 1980s were a scary time for parents with toddlers. A week did not go by without the media reporting children developing Reye’s syndrome, an often fatal condition following a viral infection like the flu or chickenpox.
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A Child of Great Promise
After two miscarriages, Liz and I quietly began to accept the prospect of being childless. Then, in 1974, we received the good news that we were with child again.
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A virtuous Woman
To be young a bride your beauty must not be of jewels gold adorning and braiding hair, beauty is vain charm is deceit, favour is fickle, beauty fades...
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Recollections
Do you remember when...
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A Proper Sunday
I love a proper Sunday. No intention of going anywhere. Proper coffee and slow-cooked sticky sausages for breakfast. Pottering in your jammies. Minor...
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5 Smokin'

This might be the next one off the production line, I'll let you know. Image made at Canva.com The first 2000 words are here https://www.abctales.com/collection/prospero-vint
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One
One imagines that one can rise up above the earth and fly among the stars and planet rounds and rounds to further still, the milky way and way beyond...
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A BUTTERFLY, PT. 2

A BUTTERFLY , PT. 2 He had parked his car on the fifth floor, which meant a lift to the ticket machine on the fourth and then an escalator up. With...
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A BUTTERFLY, PT. 1

A BUTTERFLY , PT 1 Like being in a fish tank. That’s how he would have described it to the shop assistant, had she asked. But she didn’t. Judging by...
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Zen and the Art of Calorie Counting

May 29 th was National Biscuit Day. At last, a meaningless national day I can embrace. From January to March, I attended a weekly class run by one of...
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