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Dora. Part One.
I don’t remember the first time I met Dora. With other people I can sometimes remember where I was when I met them, as it’s that memorable, but with...
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Standing , Still
When I was young and full of doubt In city pubs, I would hang out drinking pints and pints and more, I always managed to find the door. Feeling proud...
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Like Glass
Above the library rooftop terrace, the sky was dull and flat—the kind of moody white-grey of clouds not quite ready to cry, just heavy with the...
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10 Life Lessons. Number 5.
My first teacher in the juniors was Mrs Burt. Mrs Burt didn’t like me. But, to be honest, I can understand why. There wasn’t much she could teach me...
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Sensing A New Wonder
Sensing A New Wonder By Paul McCann Jenny’s first real experience of the Emperor and his enchanted garden came when she was bringing an apple tart...
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Pyre Bits
I lay down slow, my bones like wax— and wish you’d lay yours beside me, in the fire pit. Flame would claim us, erase our tracks— while strangers sing...
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Computer Messenger
Computer Messenger… Banter that backfired because literal interpretations got lost in considered connotations, (re-read a thousand times) of what...
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The Rest of My Life: Fate Accompli
Everything is different because of everything else I came across that line this morning in the book I'm currently reading. It's one of those lines...
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10 Life Lessons. Number 4.
Dad kept Pigeons. At the bottom of our tiny garden was a Pigeon Loft. Dad raced them, as did my Grandad and my Uncle George. Pigeon racing was...
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This winter
Come home this winter I miss you dearly Come back for a dinner No need to be yearly Dust fills the room Where you left in a hurry The glass still...
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Xion Island Carrier: Chapter 12
Nash stared through the one-way glass at James McAlister as the roast beef sandwich he’d wolfed down for lunch refused to settle behind his ribs. The...
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The Bible Book of Proverbs
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] A book of a father’s instructions, desiring his child’s good health … So much common-sense, and word-pictures – memorable to stick in the mind …
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The Rest of My Life: First Day...
Monday, 8th September 1975 That was the day the then callow 16-year-old me started work. Fifty years ago, bar the shouting. We were living in Devon...
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Grave (Episode 10 - The Further Chronicles of a Young Lady (and her Maid))
In which 'Arry unearths more than anyone wanted, Gwladys has the job of covering it all up and Aeflethrith has an unexpected visitor.
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Sea-Salt
Why is the sea blue? They say it has to do with reflection—or other— but I think there’s more to uncover. So, if that’s true… why is the sea so...
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Microphones
It used to be that I’d only visit Isolde Terrace for a film on a Friday evening. But I’d started going round on Mondays too, and on Wednesdays and...
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In the Mood (Not)
Sometimes yer in the poetry zone...and sometimes y'aint.
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A young Chianti
I’ve followed signs to Yield in Ireland when I’m used to an Aussie Give Way. As I put on bright lipstick, tell you stories of Africa when we were...
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10 Life Lessons. Number 3.
We’ve always had dogs. The first dog I remember was a mongrel called Butch. We went as a family to get him from a neighbour's house. Their dog had...
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