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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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