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The Miracle.
Many years ago, I worked with a woman who was wheelchair bound. I would help her onto the loo on my own, no hoist, I would also help her into a...
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- 557 reads
A hundred moments in autism - The Whale Cafe revisited
The Whale Cafe revisited I’m back in the lunch queue at the Whale Cafe. Now you may be thinking, that as I regularly get my lunch at the Whale Cafe,...
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Goodbye kiss
It was with closed lips The day we kissed goodbye There was no emotion Or commotion On platform five we stood You were looking at the clock You were...
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Wonderful.
I remember when I was 60, a friend told me, "Ring up and ask for your free bus pass," I rang up and was told, "It used to be 60, now it has gone up...
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Start
It starts with a squabble Turns into a fight Bystanders cheers No one can see the light First there where whispers Followed by pointed fingers Some...
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Mahler
The cliff house crumbles; its ghosts drift slower.
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Dogsbody (2)
After the interview at the Employment Exchange, I set to. Next day, I took a notebook down to the phone box in the village and looked up ‘Farmers’ in...
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Blunt Trauma
She was lying motionless when he arrived. He’d heard the commotion from his desk where he’d only just begun going over the homework assignments...
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A hundred moments in autism - I am Hangry
I am hangry. Autists can be prone to anger, a symptom of exhaustion from constant masking and frustration on not understanding NT communication and...
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Reasons to be Raging - Pt 3
Best laid plans to spend the summer months painting the wee weird door and wee weird windowsill on the kitchen exteriors ganged aglay , mostly as I...
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a city fable
when the storm of black snow and acid rain tears as the dark smoke clears if there in the starless sky the neon bow appears for you to have happiness...
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A Bird In The Hand
A Bird In The Hand By Paul McCann Frank drove in a desert storm , with the dust rising like a mountain in front of the windscreen of his four wheel...
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- 650 reads
Wonderful.
Woke up to some sad news today, and although I was at work, the thought of the news was in the front and back of my mind all day. Her name came up on...
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- 508 reads
1:5:5 Forgotten (Part 6)
A chime rang out as the doors parted; the floor grate rose from the sandpit and once it locked into place, a figure stepped out onto it. “Ollowwo’...
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the lost manuscript 2
He didn’t set out to be a slob. It was just easier not to care in a flat-footed way to wear the same clothes until they were like twins with an...
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Chelsea Floor Show
What's it about? I've no idea. Make up your own meaning, why don't you? :-D image is PD
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Dogsbody (1)
Something new! I retire next year after 50 years of work - and almost 40 jobs in total! I've tried many things - failed at some, succeeded at others...
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Murphy's Law
Murphy’s Law As all of us know, the above-named law dictates that the timing for something unfortunate to happen applies whenever the circumstances...
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Tears on My Pillow (Dead Reckoning series - Part 28)
Josiah and Archibald are hospitalised and the Detectives survey the aftermath.
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Weather App. Haiku #15
Feels colder today Autumn's colours in the trees Light rain on it's way
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