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Their Man in Havana
Abortive attempt at novel... may use it somewhere, in something else, who knows? Image from PD elements at canva.com
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Ignite Like a Fading Star
Ignite Like a Fading Star The instinct to endure, while witnessing the fading crescent, radiance light. Flicker and flame like a farewell candle. An...
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Street Football
Street Football By Paul McCann’ Without the word of a lie, I’ll tell ye there was something there. it was just magic , the way we played our street...
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The Earth is My Teacher
The Earth Is My Teacher By observing nature in its primitive creation, How they, in their state, reflect a mirror image. What an extraordinary...
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The Key to The Slices of Life. Part Two.
Daniel my son, lost his key in the house. We all looked for it, and couldn’t find it. Daniel works nights, and would need his key to get into the...
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Blodwyn's Hair
The Cranpick Garden Show took place each year on the second Saturday in September. It was usually a beautiful day of soft sunshine and gentle breezes...
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My Favourite Day
I missed last weeks IP, but having read Rhiannon's it inspired me to jot a few lines relating to Winnie the Pooh, along with Mullah Nasruddin one of the great wise fools.
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Jennys Garden Dance
Jennys Garden Dance By Paul McCann Through the window in the kitchen ceiling a shaft of sunlight came through and landed at Jennys feet as she ate...
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What is a Tower?
The bar at the end of the universe is a place where people of all kinds congregate, that was the case a few hundred lightyears back. Now, if anyone...
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Pioneers
In February 2019, the Big New Road (BNR) opened. The official name for it is the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR). That hardly rolls off the...
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The Car Boot Today.
I had asked my manager if myself and Lucy could be off today so that we could go to a car boot together. So, he booked 18th of May off for both of us...
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Our Community ( Edit )
It's terrible when so much, Pain, fear and destruction Lies along our bruised streets. The ones we walk along with Our tired, blind feet. So it's...
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Ne'er Cast a Clout
There is a Scottish expression, ‘Ne’er cast a clout ‘til May be oot’. It basically means, don’t peel off your winter vest until the Hawthorn tree has...
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"Unwanted Magic" 6
“We have no choice but to go forward in the maze so we need to be careful but at the same time, we need to hurry,” the dad warned. “The mom nodded...
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Twenty Five Years
A few days ago, my son Daniel asked me, “Can I buy a programme for £25 that I would like to watch on Saturday 18th on the telly, When I get paid, I...
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Steadfast Determination
I can't be doing with all these arts and farts. I've been single-minded since horse and carts. Shooting for the stars like a stream of darts. Leaving...
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by misadventure
I guessed perhaps Lavery was shagging Ida Roche on the sly. Lucy agreed with me. We often gossiped about it. Swapped stories about hearing them going...
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Who'd be a Gardener?
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Redemption Falls
Arthur prays, I think too often; God is bored with him. Mary trips up on the stairs and lets the goblins in. In city streets the feathers fly, caught...
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Before He rose up to heaven
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] … and then the Day of Pentecost, remembered today “Stay here in the city until I clothe you with power to go...
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