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My first new beginning
As a young boy, I grew up in a small village in leafy suburban Surrey, where hedges were trimmed and cars taken for their Sunday wash. When my...
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Valued (Episode 23 - The Further Chronicles of a Young Lady (and her Maid))
In which Gwladys tries to show Aefelthrith 'the ropes', until they both have the ground yanked from under them!
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Yorkshire Puddings
Yorkshire Puddings Sunday morning, and my father is tending to a pool of gold with an arm like a whisk. The batter is perfected: a potion of flour,...
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Ghigau 13
Lenny peered around the velvet curtain that separated the waiting area from the red-carpeted main room, observing the crowd chattering noisily as...
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The Performance Art Of Peace
Not all events are connected, he supposes.
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For Whom The Bell Tolls (The Centre Seethes)
At The Bell, summoned by the toxic tocsin of click-bait, hot-take pseudo-politics, proud under flags and banners emblazoned with broken English...
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Amanda Jettison
I fell in love with Amanda Jettison In the third year of high school My puberty was making a move Loins were burning I was a baby bull in heat In my...
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The Patrolman - 38
She appreciated Evelyn taking her in, but the house left her feeling cold.
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Kingpin Carbon – Why?
As if each atom has four 'arms' that reach … and so, beautiful, glittering, hard, hard diamond, or messy, useful, charcoal, and the linker for the complex chemisty of life …
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Plenty of fish
The gulls in my area
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Garfunkle's Restaurant
Breakfast at Garfunkle’s (restaurant - Heathrow) Scene 1 blond body-perfect She wears corporate black casually draped label scarf her highlight-...
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There's an element of The Two Ronnies about this
[Courtroom set. Barker (Counsel) rises, papers in hand. Corbett (Professor Plomb) is in the dock, looking dignified but slightly bewildered.] Barker...
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The Boy With The Telescope
“This is you,” she said. “You are the bridge.”
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Sir John Betjeman - (revised version)
Born: 28 August 1906,.
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The UFO Bible 1
"The voice of one calling in the wilderness. Prepare the way for the coming. Make a straight path for it." The council had built a new housing...
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When All Seems Lost
Softly pause...just for a moment, then reach out with enthusiasm; even though sceptical hidden energy may surface doubts unseen – those gnawing...
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Prayer to my mammy who slipped her skin in 2011, be happy
When you slipped your skin, I didn't cry! I didn't shed a tear! I'm not crying now, you didn't! Are your eyes still deep brown with a blue moon?...
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Lit
The weight of fallen leaves/ youngest grandson doodle
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"Art of Trouble" 5
Settled in separate rooms with the connecting door locked between them, Jade tried to relax but knowing trouble couldn’t be expected to leave her...
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Denied (Episode 22 - The Further Chronicles of a Young Lady (and her Maid))
In which Gwladys puts a stop to one thing, only for Aefelthrith to start something else!
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