Read
We're Going to Need a Bigger Hammer
I’m not keen on measuring and sawing, hack or otherwise. In fact, ‘hack’ may be the operative word for my sawing. It’s a leftie thing. Can’t slice...
- Read more about We're Going to Need a Bigger Hammer
- 5 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 1896 reads
The Traveller
The Traveller By Paul McCann He was always a loner and people who knew him would say , he’s alone more times than anyone ever should be but in saying...
- Read more about The Traveller
- Log in to post comments
- 530 reads
On Becoming Human Again
Oh goodness, how I wish that the Russians, or Chinese or North Koreans, or whoever would take out all the mobile networks so that everyone you see in...
- Read more about On Becoming Human Again
- 17 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 4800 reads
Chasing Rainbows by Alfred N.Muggins
Image:
19/3/24 (25/3/24) Alfred Muggins saw a rainbow in the sky after a brief shower, after walking the dog in perfect sunlight for a while in a nearby...
- Read more about Chasing Rainbows by Alfred N.Muggins
- 5 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 2233 reads
You do not walk alone
You do not walk alone. I have always been enamored of a warm biblical proverb, about a conversation that a man had with God, after the man had passed...
- Read more about You do not walk alone
- Log in to post comments
- 292 reads
Yard Sale Chapter 1
A tale of woe, deceit, heartbreak and love.
- Read more about Yard Sale Chapter 1
- 6 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 2954 reads
Digging for Victory
All these postage stamp gardens had once been part of something grander . Long b efore they were divided , bordered by trellised fences crawling with...
- Read more about Digging for Victory
- 7 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 2753 reads
A goatherd
The "Historical Site" signpost drags the car off the main road onto rock and grit which make the small rental car groan. In an effort to slow the...
- Read more about A goatherd
- 1 comment
- Log in to post comments
- 649 reads
A Quantum Of Solace
Quantum computing will change everything ... Probably. Photograph taken by Lars Plougmann posted on Flicker.com licence CC BY-SA 2.0
- Read more about A Quantum Of Solace
- 3 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 1423 reads
Visions Carried On The Wind
Sombre billows shed their weeping, pitter – patter teeters window pane; listening to healing descent of rain. In this quiet room where darkness...
- Read more about Visions Carried On The Wind
- 9 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 3764 reads
Michaelmas
Have reached the conclusion that my house has a very specific type of gremlin. Let’s call it a ‘pystakeyr’. This pystakeyr moves things. It appears...
- Read more about Michaelmas
- Log in to post comments
- 481 reads
KHEPRI
Thank you Eds. for the cherry yesterday which seems to have arrived at the same time I removed this for some 'tinkering'
- Read more about KHEPRI
- 12 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 5235 reads
The Bush Fires Of Bracken Valley
The Bush Fires Of Bracken Valley By Paul McCann The people of Bracken Valley were a close community and enjoyed quiet lifestyle surrounded by trees...
- Read more about The Bush Fires Of Bracken Valley
- Log in to post comments
- 565 reads
Almost Utopia
Almost Utopia by Paul McCann . At the beginning of the great depression there were many jobs in jeopardy . Many people had to adapt to the change and...
- Read more about Almost Utopia
- 2 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 551 reads
The Follower
Was it paranoia? Perhaps it was, as the train pulled away from the station which was a three-minute walk from Frazier street maternity hospital, with...
- Read more about The Follower
- 3 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 1594 reads
Dogsbody (3)
After the pub job, my money soon dried up. I was back to making calls and going through the local papers. One evening, Mr Watson – a tall elderly man...
- Read more about Dogsbody (3)
- 9 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 2860 reads
The Lilliputians in the vegetable patch - IP
In literature, we often stumble across inventions—names, ideas, phrases—that become so deeply ingrained in our culture that we forget their origins...
- Read more about The Lilliputians in the vegetable patch - IP
- 11 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 4224 reads
The Summer of '69
My memory is hazy And a little mazy, But was it so crazy, Or downright lazy, To lie in the sun, Watching that daisy?
- Read more about The Summer of '69
- 3 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 1227 reads
Tom All Alone (4)
The days had a routine that he liked. Get washed and dressed and have his Corn Flakes or Ready Brek for breakfast. Dad had already gone to work, and...
- Read more about Tom All Alone (4)
- 3 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 796 reads
Refugee’s On The Road
Refugee’s On The Road By Paul McCann At any given time without warning any of us could be in a situation where someone asks for help . Who knows any...
- Read more about Refugee’s On The Road
- 5 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 1674 reads