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A place for a snooze
The door* is open, I’ll creep through … Quiet from childish rush and squeals … Meow-sobs
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The Targovishte Quandary - Part 1 of 3
My dark and disturbing encounter in Eastern Europe.
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Free ice creams every day
The first year I worked with her, I didn't even notice she was around. She was like the shadow, the houseplants, the gray curtains. Although I heard...
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1:4:5 Negotiations (Part 6)
Ace took their cup back to the fabricator and refilled it. They scanned the menu before ordering a second cup of water. Carefully, they made their...
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Delirium
Recovering from a three week virus recently, I was amused to find my already irreverent reception of TV news even more exaggerated. This was achieved...
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Bukowski’s spit bucket
T he estimate placed on Charles Bukowski’s unmarked spit bucket is expected to be pitched at $10,000- $15,000 but there’s already talk going ro und...
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I Can't Explain (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 43)
Chantelle finds her companion boring but then discovers excitement, in the form of Frankie Knight, can be pretty overrated too!
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Is It True?
In recent articles, it has stated, that, “Dementia is more feared than Cancer.” My Mum has dementia, she has a lot of care, in fact, one of the...
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The Very Best.
Since Wilko has shut down, I have had to shop around. Usually, I buy my cat food from Tesco, it is usually £5 or just under for a pack of 6 tins. We...
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The Veteran
He felt the old wound scars: joined the war of WW 11 saw the blight smelled the death his wound memory-dripped red in war no quarter given bombed-out...
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Energy.
When I lived on my own for five years, before I got married, in difficult times I could cope and make do, to get myself through the lean times...
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We're not in Kansas anymore!
An old story I've revisited
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Genius Loci
Genius Loci (a fiction?) There is, in this house, some third party hardly spoken of. If mentioned, it would not be as a person; nor would any groping...
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Gimlet and Finchley 3 - Gimlet and Flinchley
I feel sort of empty,” said Finchley. “Of course you do,” said Gimlet. “That’s because you don’t have a hand up your bottom.” Without Ted, Gimlet and...
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Gimlet and Finchley 2 - Gavin
Gavin stopped the video, and the screen froze on the image of Gimlet, basking in the laughter. “There you are gentlemen,” Gavin said. “Proof that Ted...
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The Family Feast
The family's come round for the festive feast...
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Happy Birthday Doctor
On this day in 1963 the very first Doctor Who was televised; and I watched it as my thirteen years old self. I'm still waiting to regenerate! (Image courtesy of Tom Franz from Wikimedia Commons)
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Fit for Beasts
But let me take you back to last summer. The nights were as hot as our pissing-down days; it had been chucking it down since the Spring. The air was...
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… Well-yoked
“It is a truth universally acknowledged …
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winter trees
Winter trees, I finally found you (a short seasonal poem)
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