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Michaelmas
Have reached the conclusion that my house has a very specific type of gremlin. Let’s call it a ‘pystakeyr’. This pystakeyr moves things. It appears...
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KHEPRI
Thank you Eds. for the cherry yesterday which seems to have arrived at the same time I removed this for some 'tinkering'
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The Bush Fires Of Bracken Valley
The Bush Fires Of Bracken Valley By Paul McCann The people of Bracken Valley were a close community and enjoyed quiet lifestyle surrounded by trees...
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Almost Utopia
Almost Utopia by Paul McCann . At the beginning of the great depression there were many jobs in jeopardy . Many people had to adapt to the change and...
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The Follower
Was it paranoia? Perhaps it was, as the train pulled away from the station which was a three-minute walk from Frazier street maternity hospital, with...
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Dogsbody (3)
After the pub job, my money soon dried up. I was back to making calls and going through the local papers. One evening, Mr Watson – a tall elderly man...
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The Lilliputians in the vegetable patch - IP
In literature, we often stumble across inventions—names, ideas, phrases—that become so deeply ingrained in our culture that we forget their origins...
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The Summer of '69
My memory is hazy And a little mazy, But was it so crazy, Or downright lazy, To lie in the sun, Watching that daisy?
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Tom Tom Turnaround (4)
The days had a routine that he liked. Get washed and dressed and have his Corn Flakes or Ready Brek for breakfast. Dad had already gone to work, and...
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Refugee’s On The Road
Refugee’s On The Road By Paul McCann At any given time without warning any of us could be in a situation where someone asks for help . Who knows any...
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PASS THE BUCK, SAVE THE.........
PASS THE BUCK AND SAVE THE..… Roger Milroy , an investigative journalist poured over the news paper, sipping coffee early morning sitting in the...
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On the Other Hand
Summer wasn’t all drama. The holiday cottage was lovely, with some bigger and better beasties at the bird-feeder– red squirrel, pine martin. Visited...
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On Stages With Open Doors
On Stages With Open Doors by Paul McCann He opened his eyes and heard strange noises . They took him from that place to another place he had been...
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Knocking on your heart
Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Look, who is knocking! … – none have regrets who open the door!
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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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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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