Cherrypicked stories
4 Proof
I closed the laptop lid. The battery would run out in 15 minutes. The auto shut-down would kick in first, as it had been two pints since Vint had...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Stirring Forest
As Autumn turns to Winter's chill, forest hunger draws us where fallen dead leaves scrunch beneath boots. Whispered breath of timid deer in brushwood...
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Extra in a B-Movie Western
They say that God looks like John Wayne...
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The Feast Problem (2)
The porridge crew, myself, Alun, Gaving Hestfuhrer and the mainland knnning took our seats. Igor, the boatman’s hunchback assistant had kindly agreed...
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The Feast Problem (1)
I was woken at 6.30 one morning by a hammering on my back door. I quickly dressed and hurried downstairs to find Alun in an excited mood. “It’s the...
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Breakfast 'Chez Nous'
Frenetic at times - Image from Pixabay
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The sounds of rain
Rain ground-pounding lashing, lightning flashing booming sound of thunder crashing – winds howling gales bashing rifting, lifting, water standing,...
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The Curse of the Thing in the Jungle
My own drawing of "The Thing" :)
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