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Holidays in Timbuctou, by Alfred N.Muggins (rogue reporter!)
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25/9/23 Alfred had realized in this last week or so that his long hoped for, and planned, Holiday In Timbuctou would definitely not be taking place...
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Deep-seated contentment.
I conclude that the deep-seated contentment that invades one’s being unexpectedly from time to time (as happens to me not infrequently) cannot be...
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Guitar Man
I have a guitar which I like to strum. If I'm feeling good, I may even hum. It's less disruptive than banging a drum. And a great deal better than...
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Devil's Advocate (Part Three of Three)
Part One at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/devils-advocate Part Two at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/devils-advocate-part-two-...
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Friendship Trees
Friendship Trees By Paul McCann The seeds some of our friendships are planted firmly in the ground where roots are grown , while other seeds are...
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10.1 Black Orchid
2008 was a wet year and a good year for most of us. I fixed an air-condition unit in my cubicle last year but not too satisfied with it because it...
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Girl in a green dress.
This evening I address everyone from the safely of the pages of a tender tale told by a conflicted man. I am not that man, but his tale of garbage...
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Love Story 2
I wasn’t fully Baptised in the Spirit. Which to some church members meant I wasn’t baptised. Our prayer leader, Colin, spoke in tongues. So I was...
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We have three little trees …
We have a little yew tree – dropped by a bird? – it grew: we moved it to a safer spot, and told the girls that yew has leaves and berries poisonous – the’re for …
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Private Psychiatric Hospital
At last 100% the right medicines after more than 20 years state care, the food is good too but they are very strict on hospital rules, and...
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9.1 On the Rock
Sabo popped at the door to my kitchen quarter office, “Kawla! Do you mind if I cut some branches from the drumstick tree hanging over the roof?...
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The Courtier From The 21st Century Who Would Be King : The King Behind The Throne : King Henry VIII (Alfred the Great II) : Ch.5 by Alfred Muggins (himself) Part 2 : Wives
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Part 2 : Wives 4/5/23 / 8/7/23 Alfred, who is not one to ever force a woman to do what she doesn’t want to, relented. The real Henry might have used...
The foxes are at it again.
Today’s rawky afternoon has given way at last to an evening sky of pink and baby blue. The mephitic vapours that hung around the trees all afternoon...
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The Provincial Little Caterpillar
The caterpillar hatched from his tiny yellow egg, which was on the underside of a large leaf. He hatched at exactly a millimeter long, and I’m...
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Then, My Village
Then, My Village The pathos of a passerby in his call at a pitch high scared by his loneliness, and beasts howling in the darkness in the late hour...
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Devil's Advocate (Part Two of Three)
Part One at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/devils-advocate Devil’s Advocate (Part Two of Three) It had been a long day and nurse Abbott...
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Grizzly Tragedy
Just a few feet off-trail was all it was- he heard the snap in his ankle – falling across an avalanche of rock brought his hiking partner – spent...
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Beneath My Favourite Tree
In summer that's still and so silent, squirrel munches till rustle of swish from tall hazelnut tree as blackbird catches sight of me, my intention...
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8.2 In the Deep
I got dressed without even washing and zoomed on my motorbike up the Havana streets to Orange Hill taking Camino Costero in the rush hour. I couldn’t...
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Raymond
Raymond The season brings the oldness of a year. A light straining out from a coal morning. The radio wears a cardigan with news of how much the...
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