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Bus Pass [and BPL] Go Off to Camp
Bus Pass and BPL were running out of Enid Blyton ‘Famous Five’ titles to blatantly plagiarise for Bus Pass adventures. Several tricky ones were left...
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Waiting, in Candlelight
Candles flicker many an hour: gales so strong, supply of power broken …
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The Last Night Chapter 12 Behind The White Fire
Chapter 12 Behind The Fire 37 Disembodied floating free against a starless backdrop of infinite emptiness. They gravitated toward one another...
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Shower song
Is that you, whispering in the walls again?
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I lit a thin green candle
I remember when my half-sister came to stay, seven years older than me and full of energy, like a whirlwind dropping into the quiet rhythm of our...
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Weather App. Haiku # 25
After Darragh- calm Looking forward to Christmas Pray that no snow falls! (25 of 25- the Last One)
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The Curse of Eternal life
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Day Dreaming at Night
Just a few desultory observations from recent days. Storm Cuddly caused widespread damage and injury, but one plucky reporter from Bonkers TV stood...
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Rest In Peace, Hazel - Part V
One year ago tonight, I had to watch as your life came to an end. It was sad to witness your demise and I felt so much pain within. You died in 2023...
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Party Election Leaflets : Delivering Economic Stability? By Alfred N.Muggins
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June 2024 Delivering Economic Stability? That wasn’t a phrase he would use to describe any of the recent years. Old wannabe Queen Margaret Thatcher...
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Awake
Almost the worst thing A face that no longer speaks Warfarin and medical wattle One that makes you weep Sloshing around is somebody No need for an...
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The Wizard Detective 2
I tried all afternoon to disconnect myself from the table, but I couldn’t stop it following me around. It went everywhere I went, even when I passed...
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Safe from the cold
I'm sat here on a rainy Sunday afternoon wondering what to do and where this love I had our love has now unravel with time what happen I don't know...
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The Wizard Detective 1
I was assigned Pegarin as my mentor. A long, stra g gly, bearded wizard, who favoured sandals , brightly coloured cardigans and beanie hats over more...
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Parcel for you - Part 42
Vanessa followed her husband into the kitchen and pushed the door closed but not clicked. ‘Hey, stop being so bloody helpful,’ she whispered. Spencer...
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Guests in the House
Annual Posting Guests in the House The 747 circled lazily through the patterned array of clouds that framed the blue of the Atlantic Ocean and the...
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Sandhill Only in Name
The sand hill crane is an immaculate beast I have not once seen on sand or hill, Rather knee-deep in retention water Steaming its belly feathers in...
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Still Life II
Yesterday never really got light. A bleak midwinter day if ever there was one. Sky, a twilit grey-green all day, somewhere between aventurine and...
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The Meeting of the Waters
A few words about my love affair with one of Europe's great rivers and her little sister.
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Why Christmas? (1)
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Nothing, nothing to be seen. Only One, true God, who’d been always, ever and content, but he chose to make, invent … damaged, sad … trust he would appear …
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