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Walking on Sunshine (Dead Reckoning series - Part 29)

In which the Detectives and Josiah are feeling the after-effects of their watery ordeal and D.I. Wood dreams of sun, sand and...Sergeants?
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1:5:5 Forgotten (Part 7)
Eventually, Ow’oo returned; it’s helmeted head peered out from behind the door’s window. Ow’oo vanished but soon reappeared as the doors started to...
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Parcel for you....Part 36
Vanessa had brought her husband a smart new jacket for their hotel stay, fashioned from leather in dark brown, not too trendy but a change from his...
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Are We There Yet?
Weather, from Wednesday to Friday, was forecast fine and sunny. Just the conditions for sanding, prepping and painting the outside of the wee weird...
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Cry Of The Workers
Cry Of The Workers By Paul McCann He was collecting some of the natural wild herbs that grew on the edge of the mountain . It was always a little...
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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Reflection

I'm continuing with the final draft of 'Gift' - my memoir/journal based on my time as my mother's full-time carer for the last few months of her life...
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Dragon-dinos

Under a carpet in Carlisle cathedral aisle a brass plate over a marble tomb (about 500 years old); engraved with a dog, a fish, a bird, an eel and two mythical creatures (it is said) — or are they? …Did Saint George kill a dinosaur?
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Ex Crete

More whimsy, this time from the second half of September 2024, at the rate of 100 words per day.
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In Daddy’s Arms
In Daddy’s Arms Paul McCann There were 6 children under five years of age in the family home and there was no escape .The mother never stopped all...
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Incubus

Once thought to be a myth
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Yard Sale Chapter 3

A tale of woe, deceit, heartbreak, and happyness
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Rain beats
Rain beats incessantly, October here before September begun. A flood of feeling, Like Summer. Gone. Trees creating lines like broken glass Across...
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A Year With the Brighouse Stars Walking Club - Farewell Our Lionel
Warning. Readers of the previous adventures of the Brighouse Stars Walking Club may find that the following episode induces feelings of overwhelming...
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Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail
Taylor Swift is fabulous, although I’m not at all sure about the current beau, but that’s none of my beeswax. Anyway, I was mildly surprised (okay I...
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The Old Man and the Libyan Sea

A whimsical look at my involvement in the world during the first half of September 2024, at the rate of 100 words per day.
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Above CravenArms 29/9/24

Bright September Saturday Lunch at the Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre, Craven Arms: (Veggie lasagne and lemon and oat slice!) Then walk out over...
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A Stitch In Time Saves Nine.

Yesterday I had got up early and seen to the cats and the dogs, did the dish washer, swept and mopped the floors, changed all the cat litters, wrote...
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Scientific accuracy and discrepancies
Can someone tell us what the correct use is of the terms figures, numbers, amount of, count and how many? These terms have different meanings. The...
Frugal Schmoogal

I hate no spend month. It has very little to do with saving money. It’s a ploy, showing up all your self-defeating, deflecting, sublimating, time-...
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Return Of The Stolen Children
Return Of The Stolen Children By Paul McCann In the darkness of the night he woke up with a beautiful small of roses in the room . As he looked over...
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