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Welshman’s caviar (bara lawr)
I have good memories of freshly cooked laverbread brought home by my mother from Cardiff market.
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Triptych
The rock face became my confessor/Water became my crystal/Earth became my altar.
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"The Coffee House Spy" 7
Emily had fed Sir Harry his breakfast when they returned from their walk in the park and brewed a fresh pot of coffee. She’d just placed her filled...
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Violets, Sweet Violets
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Priorities for prayer
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] 'What shall we eat?' and ‘What shall we wear?’ ‘God, be my Saviour’, be my first prayer. Worrying can’t add...
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The Lord Says Go North 3
Gary and Matthew arrived at the community house in Glasgow. They sat in the kitchen with their suitcases, drinking two cups of coffee, with Gerald...
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Beginning. By MarciaMarcia
Beginning Beginning to live without someone who you have grown to love in the deepest sense of the word love, comes with a heaviness of thought...
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Couch Potatoes and Limp Lettuces Leaves
Image : Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic licence - Author: https://www.flickr.com/photos/e3000
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Midsummer Hill, southern end of the Malverns
Up the lane towards Midsummer hill, soon such views westwards – … out on the fort top – on top of the world …
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QUEUE
QUEUE Unique is the English letter ‘Q’ to exist in words it needs “U’ as its general companion or “Mam” puts a zero on the evaluation With ‘eue’...
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The Garden of Eden
I was in the garden, which was rank and stank. Shifted a rock and then a plank. Stood on a dog turd, up to my shank. Returned to the house, blankety...
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In a stew
Tallulah, like most turnips, is a rather sensitive soul. Root vegetables in general have an unfair reputation as being somewhat hard, knobbly, and...
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Have a Pea Princess!
My daughter reallly was and sitll is an earth-bound angel, but as a child she stubbornly refused to each vegetables...
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A Satisfied Life
Once upon a decade or two or three, 70 years ago I was a whippersnapper eager to learn - be happy knowledgeable successful in the world was my dream...
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Friday Night was Biscuit Night
My mum, she loved Marks & Spencer. She’d always say, ‘You can’t beat them for value.’ She was a brilliant shoplifter, my mum.
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When I Was Flush
I once purchased a pair of trousers, a jacket made entirely of playing cards. People seemed to like it. Without doubt, it went on to become my...
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The Worry
I was in Boyd’s Stores watching someone receive good news on their phone when Leventhal parked up beside me with news of Gerry Purcell’s death. I...
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The easy way to stop drinking
I’ve been wanting to give the drink up for a bit now but I can’t stop going to the pub. I’ve tried before but it never lasts long so I knew what to...
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1:3:9 Ascension (Part 1)
Damp. She had no idea what was going on or where she was but she was most certainly damp. Her ears were ringing, her vision blurred beyond...
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I’ve been talking to you again
I used to talk to you so much I can’t stop now And don’t worry I know you’ve gone But I can still feel your presence Especially when I’m gardening. I...
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