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Parcel for you...part 20
There was a headline, just a small one, alongside the main headline which was about the phasing out of car ownership. In the news sites, on Facebook...
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West Kensington
Through a long, thin row of PVC windows you can see two glass chandeliers hung close against the ceiling, clinging like barnacles so that people can...
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Johnny Ten Levs
Johnny’s always drifting around, trying to find, alcohol.
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A Devil of a Man (7) - In Vino Veritas
Tasting the local wine. - (Image from Wikimedia Commons - Diego Delso, delso.photo , License " CC-BY-SA "
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Titterstone Clee (533m)16/02/24
Scrambling up the old overgrown quarry cliff to see more of the far (though hazy ) 360º views wandering around in the blasting refreshing gale. Brown...
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Tilly cut loose from the day
Tilly cut loose from the day Brightness like a red balloon Utterances dumbstruck with gravity Details don’t matter Holding onto her giggling A...
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A Devil of a Man (6) - A Pope's Dilemma
Enters the Green Count - Image by Odejea - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0,- Wikimedia Commons
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New Directions (12)
Barry Stokes isn’t easily fazed. I was banking on him figuring out how to make a few quid from my visit. Word would already be out. Pretty soon...
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Afternoons Without Spoons
Entered in a poetry competition more than 10 years ago. I think it came 2nd last. I've just found it again. Perhaps you'd prefer it if I hadn't. Image author's own, made at canva.com using a collage technique.
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No Hats en el Pueblo (Alhaurin El Grande, June 2015)
Boring. Don't bother. Image has no known copyright issues.
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Parcel for you...Part 19
He heard some sort of meaningless laughter. Vanessa was sputtering like a very underpowered engine, emitting nervous breathy giggles in sporadic...
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Baron von Ernest and the alien spaceship
I had the privilege of sitting in on the cabinet meeting with Baron von Ernest, who had recently been promoted to Emperor of the civilized word, when...
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A Devil of a Man (5) - A Fair Exchange
Fair exchange is no robbery. - Image from Wikimedia Commons.
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Baron von Ernest and the stick
Baron von Ernest and his entourage, myself included, were travelling in his private coach from the city back to the castle, when suddenly the Baron...
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The Baron von Ernest (2)
My mother opened the door and the emissary from the Baron entered our abode. “Are you Hans Neesand?” he asked. I nodded nervously in response. “I am...
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Killing the killers
Not for the faint-hearted. Just a way of releasing the anger regarding the preventable death of my daughter resulting from the side effects of a drug now known to be responsible for over 400 deaths a year.
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The day echoes like laughter
And one day it finally happens. Although I had postponed the plan for so long and so many times. Every morning when I got up and had in mind to...
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Our Soil
Peep of green/ grand daughter/doodle
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In Memoria Canis
A year to the day since our Springer Spaniel died; The human condition is such that I still miss him. I'd written some thoughts then, which I've revised here.
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Watching You Chapter Three
CHAPTER THREE Kelly finished at six after a quiet night. Most of the junkies seemed to have gone to seed, the clubbers crawled into their dens for an...
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