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soft as silence

flower girl's fresh petals bloom pure fragrance and dainty treats cloudy rainbow candy lady roses drift merrily bells all dancing eden's grass lush...

Jovial Johnno

At least that’s what they called him. Always with a smiling face, Always the teeth. An endless, upturned crescent, A laugh that carried, blocks away...
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Hibernal Solstice

Dark winter dawn broken by shards of sunlight beckoning the shortest day. A diurnal heraldry calling Jupiter and Saturn, a Christmas star forged by...

Covid-19

I step into sunny day’s brilliance as it exposes a need for the best in sunglasses and I have them in my car. Shoppers are masked with every creative...

Friday Night Bingo

. Friday Night Bingo By Paul McCann Well there was an old woman who lived on the bone , she lived near the brickyard all on her own . She loved...

Memories Of The Mills

. Memories Of The Mills By Paul McCann Three to four thousand workers standing all day to make their pay . Isn’t it a shame . There’s no pity here in...

On A Hilltop

. On A Hilltop By Paul McCann On the top of a hill lived the owner of a mill, they say Andrews was his name and from Comber he came . Edenderry...
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The long dead scrolls (2)

"I've seen a UFO," the American said. "Though it wasn't an unidentified object, it was a flying saucer, an alien spacecraft. I was up close enough to...
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A new achievement @16 months

9 cubes in a square box, tip them out, chuck one back in anyhow, then 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th – 7th, 8th – maybe need a bit of a shove and push in one of the odd-shaped spaces now left, until they slide in. Now one left – …
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The Record.

Last night my Son Daniel text me to tell me, “I’ve given up smoking.” The number of times a smoker has said that to me at home and at work, I usually...

iMalaprop

iMalaprop Doctor Malaprop’s Diagnosis Well according to my periscope your heart beat’s mumbling. It may be best to do an E.G.G. test and I’ll take a...

15.1 S-O-S

Conga Nasr saw a flashing light of a bike rolling down the narrow path in the woods. It was Sardar Lahuth approaching with a police patrol. Nasr...

Good King Borislav

Thought I'd write something festive... Image source wikipedia commons.
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Marginalia from a Self-Help Book

Good luck finding the book, I haven't written it yet. Image created by Author.
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The long dead scrolls (1)

I don't spend a great deal of my time in the day to day running of the museum, bar my thrice-weekly talks, the recruitment of staff and the selection...

Today I Was Thinking About .........

Have been thinking recently about injustices in the world. One of the things I thought about was women in poor countries in the world, who have to...
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McShane's Reprieve

Starin intently at the rear-view mirror, another motor appears an turns intae the car park, the beams ay its heidlights cuttin through the thick ink...

The Night-Time

Over sky and murky overcast on silent feet a magic came oh to rise and spark a dreaming gone too soon sunlight streaming night has come and rest is...

The Christmas Spirit

The Christmas Spirit By Paul McCann It was Christmas again and there was food and drink and some songs to sing . There were cars parked everywhere...
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Langdale Pikes In Winter

If I was young and fit again following what purpose sways, like hungry walkers task awakens emergence,

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