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Rain
Rain left town a short while ago & sunshine bright took its place. Come & walk with me – see the drying of leaves and green sustenance for...
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The Dentist.
A few weeks ago, I made a phone call for someone who was unable to do it for themselves. The man had very bad toothache. Joe had not been to the...
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1:4:2 Tarthesis (Part 9)
The evacuations were all going to plan; across the planet, the ships were filling and they were almost all ready to depart. Thanks to Destiny acting...
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1:4:2 Tarthesis (Part 8)
There was a huge commotion outside. As they left the town hall, they saw waves of civilians being corralled towards the police station and barracks...
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Trip of a Lifetime
A poem inspired by a terrible incident my partner and I witnessed on the four kilometre journey into our local town this morning.
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The Crooked House Pub.
I remember Paul and I took our children Daniel and Meghan to the Crooked House Pub. It was exciting and certainly different, it seemed to play tricks...
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Malta.
I love Malta. I have never been, I would love to go for a holiday there, ideally for a month. To everyone who I have mentioned it to, they have all...
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Parklife (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 30)
In which our convoy arrives and problems abound!
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Holy Cows
Holy cows chew the cud and patiently wait in fields until we pass and praise them for being there. I puzzle over the uncontrolable urge to say 'cows...
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1:4:2 Tarthesis (Part 7)
The white flash of their materialisation caught the locals off guard. The rabble and ruckus died down in an instant. They had only been gone a couple...
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Wolves
Wolves (A Villanelle) Jennifer Pickup 10.08.2023 My heart starts to race at the close of light – There are wolves in the shadows, wolves outside, I...
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Tokyo panic.
Today was a day of panic. I hadn’t realised how late in the afternoon it was till Wanda the tea lady arrived at the office door with the tea cart. “...
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begone
there is a bumblebee buzzing where the woundwort was now neat snipped stalks in hoe hacked naked soil no cerise tipped willowherb spires, leaves...
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Cherished Evenings
Cherished Evenings Cherish I. from my heart’s abyss the evenings of pleasure and bliss dating them back seven decades past when its spell, urbanity...
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Silas Nash Book 1: Hush Hush Honjeysuckle: Chapter 24
Nash had a bad night. Loneliness was always worse when it was dark and he was in the house on his own. It was crippling. Having a selfish,...
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Goatie 31
I’m that age. Got confused. Get easily lost. But it seemed the screw was leading me away from the medical block. I’d grown used to and familiar with...
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Scorn Not His Djezve
A tongue in cheek assessment of the misnomer that making good coffee is complicated.
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A Precarious Situation
Longevity - Image from Pixabay
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Sharing a Bite
Darkness screams into the night and a wonder seen from my tent calls to me- the growl of a bear cements me to my tracks. I wandered too far away...
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Shelter For The Weary
Each year I journey through the seasons where guardians commune with earth, share awareness of mother nature's embrace; a place where the elemental...
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