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Look-Look UP
I can feel the startle of sky this night and how the day is diminished by millions of pinpoints of light – and how its beauty & diamonds delight...
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Main course, dessert and lavatory.
On the last night of our holiday in Sligo we ate out at a restaurant. When we started to peruse the menu my wife went into a fit of the giggles and...
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Moods of Ocean and River
Swelling, surging, heaving … placid calm … Hustling, bustling narrow stream tumbles into gentle Monnow which …
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3 Dee Time
Two bits today. Don't read them all at once... Image created at canva.com using licence free components.
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2 "And My C*ck's A Kipper"
As is customary, more seemingly (and, most likely, actually) aimless drivel. Image created by me at canva.com and 3dbookcovercreator.com
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Be Still, My Beating Heart...
Be Still, My Beating Heart… “ We deceive ourselves about love — about who; and how; and when; and whether. We also discover and correct our self-...
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Whatever remains
Here is the place I fell to earth It was cold It's a disgrace All my sum worth Has grown old Under the rushes Above the stream All is not what it...
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perspective
Today marks the one year anniversary of my father's death. I wrote this in June, but saved it for today. perspective Jennifer Pickup, 16.06.2023 at...
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Let It Happen For You Today
Let It Happen For You Today By Paul McCann Let the wind touch your mind and refresh your thoughts and smell the fragrance of flowers that grow enjoy...
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The lies we tell our children
The lies we tell our children Jennifer Pickup, 05.09.2023 Honesty is the best policy, Isn’t that what we teach? Then why do parents find it so hard...
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Mixed Up Seats
Mixed Up Seats By Paul McCann We’ve got two tickets for the show , But there nowhere for us to go . Theres a new venue that they found So now we have...
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Work On Site
Work On Site By Paul McCann Quarry boys make some noise , blasting rocks as the clocks tick away . Isolate on the date , when and where who is there...
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Silas Nash Book !: Hush Hush Honeysuckle: Chapter 31.
‘You see our predicament, Mr Finch?’ Nash said. Nash and Brown were on their third cup of coffee at their third house that day. The children were...
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California Dreaming
The other night I woke up in a lather. Like all people woke, you might joke, but this was serious. A terrible bowel churning nightmare, in which I...
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The Gravel Pitch
The Gravel Pitch By Paul McCann The Gravel Pitch - By Paul McCann . Looking back now I see how the years have flown but I remember that gravel pitch...
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1 Prospero Vint
Probably not going to amount to anything, ever, but ... Well here it is anyway. Image author's own created on canva from image with appropriate licence.
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Birdsong: Listen!
[Afternoon on the hill] Burbling song … [Evening in the garden] Rich, deep trilling …
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Silas Nash Book !: Hush Hush Honeysuckle. Chapter Thirty B
Nash and Renshaw avoided contaminating evidence in Amanda Keys’ kitchen. Nash felt ill. This one was on him, and he felt the burden of guilt pressing...
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Another World
It’s getting dark down and a fox sniffs a picture of stillness a bear lurches down the trail both cubs glued to her side her breath like a torch for...
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Time Is Passing
A gathering of colours in evening attire contrast twilight red and landscape green- azure blue with baby skies & heading into day’s lesser light...
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