Inspiration point (IP)

Today is the 100th birthday of naturalist Sir David Attenborough, himself a wonder of nature and one of our very, very few genuine national treasures. So this week, please write about an animal (or many animals, if you prefer!) Animals you love, or hate, or that give you the horrors, or that you once fleetingly glimpsed in passing. I look forward to seeing the results! 

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Cherry

Familiarity breeds contempt (IP)

“What is it?”*, they said – extraordinary food, collected each morning (and tasting so good) from the ground all around on six mornings, and then...

Roar

I do not speak, for the voice of my essence is not that of any man I have suffered the cold of 50 unseeing eyes, and burned by the intensity of kind...

Faeries

Faeries Preface See, my problem was, I was always trying to find beautiful words for something so ugly, I was trying to explain something I could...

Primary School Memories

Mixed up little witch sky-high before lunch I hid beneath the cave of wooden desks with metal inkwells in first year juniors. How did Miss Cooper get...

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