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Victoria Mills, West Vale, Elland

It's a real place. Part of It's where they shoot that daytime TV programme with Nigel Havers and the antique experts. Image - author's own.
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tree time
cold admonishment as rain, taps a clean patina of advice - with foreign fluency, saps defiant thought, both truth and lies this, here, is all -...
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By McElmond's Pond
Panting their way up the hill master & dog logged a journey of remembrance fallen trees in the hundreds alongside the shore- a gift from Fiona...
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Angela Lansbury
Angela Lansbury has perished after living for nearly ninety-seven years. In 1948, She starred in "State Of The Union" and "The Three Musketeers"...
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BEAUTIFUL.

I have known her since she was a baby. I first held her when she was a week old. Even then, she was SO beautiful, I remember thinking If I ever have...
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Ugly Puggly 89
Wee Jim turned up earlier than I liked. But I shouldn’t have been surprised. He was always early. Molly made him a cup of tea while I got ready. I...
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Alien Evangelist 1
Neville had volunteered to be a missionary on another planet. He was sitting in a small classroom with a dozen other people. A man at the front stood...
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Hell Puppets

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Ian- the aftermath
Hurricane Ian - the aftermath As we made our way southward, we could see various signs of Ian’s passage. In the low country of the Carolinas,...
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Be still my breaking heart

‘Amy…Amy…. Amy honey, they need an answer!’ Amy felt her mother’s touch bring her out of a dissociative state. ‘We were just all together…’ Amy...
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I'm Happy Today
I'm happy today what more could I say the sun is shining in my heart i see a rainbow outside in the rain i look at it and think let me always have a...
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Things You Should Never Do

Things You Should Never Do By Paul McCann Never give up , never give in , never stop believing just put your trust in Him. Never loose hope , never...
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Fish Finger Maths!

10 fish fingers hot on the grill. Susie went to bed feeling rather ill, Tommy wanted 3 his empty tum to fill, Bertie asked for 2 – and a ½ – ‘Thanks...
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Only a dash
Only a dash A tombstone in silent tone defines the man the best it can underneath its grave a coward or a brave a king or a prisoner a philanthropist...
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Wander around the world

A young monk was supposed to wander around the world, but, he postponed the departure date again and again. The abbot waited impatiently, ‘You’d...
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Without you
Today is the first day without you drinking my morning tea without you the day is so cold without you the sun is shining but I feel so sad without...
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The lioness
On a sunshine day a stake driven into the cricket oval a lioness on a rope while I was tied to this peg she savage slinking circling winding around...
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Ugly Puggly 88
I’d put on an old pair of my pyjamas. But I had to cinch them tighter at the waist when I went to bed. Cotton and thin stripes reminded me of the way...
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Only The Lonely
Tomorrows good intentions aren't certain for the living, loved ones grasp for answers especially when left behind; misplaced, swimming in oceans of...
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