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Discombobulation : PutinTimes Thoughts From Alfred N.Muggins

By David Kirtley on Wed, 04 May 2022

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c.8/4/22 Methinks this particular revelation from the time when I was looking after Henry VIII’s throne for him, when he was away, might well prove...

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Trees

By maisie on Wed, 04 May 2022

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Trees The trees stand at the edge of the garden fenced off from the Nature reserve. Tall thin red branched trees, slowly turning to brown. The spring...

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Elytra - an extract

By Elegantfowl on Wed, 04 May 2022

One thread extracted from a sort of dystopian novel from 2015, following the genesis of two characters. 1 Wednesday March 26 72AGF 9.30am 'It's not...

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Bonnie Prince Charlie in London, 1750

By Angusfolklore on Wed, 04 May 2022

Years after Culloden, in the despondent London fog, the fat, failed, drunken Stuart indulged his ancestral homeland with an unbidden visit. The Young...

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indigo

By Di_Hard on Wed, 04 May 2022

In-dig O, Earth, our slow whirled world here, find waiting flowers of Love everlasting safe-kept all year for two weeks in May, every year whatever...

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Vocies Part Three

By Chris Whitley on Wed, 04 May 2022

'Weeks had gone by since this meeting, and still the legend's night-searches to the slums had made no progress. The places were hellish; black as a...

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Five In a Race

By forest_for_ever on Wed, 04 May 2022

The latest Inspiration Point gave me an opportunity to rework a piece that had been inspired by a New Testament passage.This time I chose the five senses.

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Felonious Tongue-Twister

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 04 May 2022

First and fleetest ran the fleecers as the sheriff’s ambush fell flushing gamblers from false gaming – fake their loaded dice, the fleeced now...

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The Past, Passed #2

By drkevin on Wed, 04 May 2022

It's strange the things that are remembered. The arbitrary slice of a mind dismembered. I always loathed the slippery prune. Never got around to...

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Drugs - Where's the harm? - 2

By Ray Schaufeld on Wed, 04 May 2022

After 12 years out of hospital and leading an independent life in the community I went down with post-covid psychosis and had 4 weeks back in. I have...

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A Farmer's Man

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 04 May 2022

George was old enough as he was of age- time to decide son daddy said to be a college man or a farmer’s man. Being the oldest of eleven made it easy...

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Corona Log- 3 May, 2022- final entry

By jxmartin on Tue, 03 May 2022

Corona Log- Tues, May 3, 2022- Final Entry It is a sultry 92 degrees (F) here in SW Florida. I had started the day out with a congregation, of...

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Ingerland My Ingerland: The Prime Ministers Who Made Me

By Kilb50 on Tue, 03 May 2022

How lucky was I in life's lottery ?

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sleep gently

By Nolan on Tue, 03 May 2022

sleep my gentle my dear my treasure sleep my love my miracle my own freely easily darling bliss and peace sleep sweet my dove mine alone slumber...

Love

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I Will Ride

By Ewan on Tue, 03 May 2022

Anybody see Boris's bus crash interview with Susanna Reid? Unbelievable. image wikipedia commons.

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Acrobats at Rest

By Ewan on Tue, 03 May 2022

It's about... whatever. Can't use the picture used for inspiration, so I made my own from available pd elements

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Ugly Puggly 18

By celticman on Mon, 02 May 2022

Ugly Puggly was doing something with broad beans and peas, boiling them to death. ‘Whit have you got in the oven?’ I smacked my lips together, after...

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