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A hole in the kitchen
It was chasing that damned mouse that had him rummaging beneath the kitchen cupboards, removing the boards and shining the light from his mobile...
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What's going on inside?

A fruit fly’s larva has a brain very small but is it simple? …
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Magic Portals
The precise, rectangular array of the postal boxes was both geometric in design and appealing to the appreciative eye. Behind each brown metal door,...
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May 4th (chapter 5 part 2)

Will he sleep it out?
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May 4th (chapter 5 part 1)

Will they decide to go on another date?
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Song of Myself
Written in 1892 - Poem by Walt Whitman
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The Dodleston Timelines 3
Wendy sat in the police station. "Is the child injured?" she asked. "He has a few minor injuries," said the sergeant, who was slightly overweight and...
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A Kingdom of wisdom and peace

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] We long for love and peace where guns are moulded into ploughs, and everyone unkindness shuns, concern, not...
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Last Rites

Based on the opening line of "Earthly Powers" by Anthony Burgess
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Weary All Hill
From our hotel window we watch legends cloud form on the broad flank of the hull. A sunset sided flock slowly mow contours and then move in unison,...
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Patrick Kavanagh and Me

I’ve got to give a bit of credit for the first line of this to the late Mr Patrick Kavanagh of 62 Pembroke Road, Dublin. It’s from his poem Canal Bank Walk , written in 1954.
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Chemo2 - session 3
Chemo 2 - session 2 - day 5 I had the scary day in my cycle last night, as it was the one last time where I had the bad reaction, But this time I had...
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An Initiation to Wisdom

An Initiation to Wisdom Wish all parents the best of their infants to be the world beater with health and wealth to prosper. Dreamt, my parent the...
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Mother, Dear...

A strained relationship. Based on the opening line of 'The Stanger' by Albert Camus.(Image from Pixabay)
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Dark Night

An acknowledgement of a famous poem by Dylan Thomas
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To see the day of light

They do not seek each other out. And yet they meet every day. At least during working days. She is dressed in silk navy blue blouses, moss green...
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Analogy Of Adventure

Casanova would have loved Those Italian mountains With their masculine well Built peaks, that seduced The rambler in me with Their tempting rugged...
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I'm Still Waiting (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 42)

Not everyone finds waiting patiently all that easy, particularly not Frankie Knight!
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Lea(r)ning

Not about much. I did the drawing. You can tell, can't you. [BTW can you see the face in it?]
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May 4th (chapter 4)

Does the first date go well? or was it a mistake?
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