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Stop the stigma
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Thirteen Letters, Chapter Seven.
My name is MJG or Maxine Jasmin-Green, I have a lot of ideas in my head, and I know just how I want things to be. In my life I am not a leader, I’m a...
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Ugly Puggly 74
We did a lot of crying in the kitchen, in the living room and even in the bedroom. Dave got my bedroom. And Molly let me sleep beside her and cuddled...
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Any room for a small one?
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Thirteen Letters. Chapter Six.
So, to mentions some of the other rules and regulations of my job description, not in any particular order:- When I leave my home, I must have in my...
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Thirteen Letters. Chapter Five.
All contracts were signed. It was a relief. And in a way it turned out to be easy, easier than I thought it would be, because the T&C was all...
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Thirteen Letters. Chapter Four.
I was in the heart of the city, it was a hot and sunny day, I should have been happy as the day, the sky seemed perfect, but I wasn’t happy. I was...
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Ugly Puggly 73
They say when your near death your life rushes up to meet you. I’d a memory of being tamped down like a new bit of turf on top of another body. He...
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Thirteen Letters. Chapter Three.
I slept well in my lovely king size bed, it seemed rather big for just me in it, but I wasn’t complaining. In Maxine’s office the following day,...
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Thirteen Letters. Chapter Two.
In the other room, I didn’t have a hot drink, but I wanted to take some of the nice-looking biscuits home, but it just seemed that at least one eye...
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Thirteen Letters. Chapter One.
Mystery surrounds my beginning, my elderly dad who lives miles away from anywhere, has always told me, “Jude our puppy found you, and I kept you and...
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Onward I Mutter - A Ramble
I have a new mantra. It popped into my head as I made my way to a downtown train. I hadn’t been in a subway since before the pandemic hit and was...
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Ugly Puggly 72
Ugly Puggly’s house was familiar and unfamiliar as an aged aunt. We crept up four stairs near the door, looking and listening like kids learning the...
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Ugly Puggly 71
Rain bounced off pavements and roads, but it had mostly stopped when I caught up with Ugly Puggly. I didn’t have a jacket on and was drookit and...
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THE TRIALS OF AN ANGEL (part1)
Follow up of THE FIRST ANGEL --- Sally's story
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Early
We are the tribe of Early We are the Cleaners Window Cleaners Recyclers Gardeners Workers for the Royal Mail. Bus and Train Drivers Cabbies...
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The Spy Who Was Mince*
A rare autobiographical piece... Image made using canva from elements found at flickr.com
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Profile in Courage
Profile in Courage Laboring, in the vineyards of the vote, has always been a task ill-suited to the strongly principled. Compromise, deal making and...
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Afternoon Delight
Dear diary...it's Sunday afternoon, 14 th August 2022, and the temperature keeps on rising. Sitting in my garden den, thinking of the wild green man...
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Pretending to Believe
I didn't even know people did this on-line. Image is author's own fault.
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