Inspiration point (IP)
The first Christmas tree has gone up just over the road from me. The city where I live is clogged with eager visitors to The Christmas Market. I have my own views about Christmas starting in November, but each to their own. The Inspiration Point this week is: Anticipation.
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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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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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Mahler
The cliff house crumbles; its ghosts drift slower.
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Mudlarks
You can't revisit a river
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On the Wind
Gordon Baker was walking home after a very long day, a dry day in which he’d agonised over figures, the measly budget he’d been given, trying to...
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