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By Chelsea.Anne on Tue, 06 Aug 2013

My shoes think they're anorexic So when my feet feel heavy I take them off Carry them up the stairs And let them watch the city I'll leave them there...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

The TV is shit

By valiswaverider on Tue, 06 Aug 2013

We are ambulance chasing lawyers for you Have you had a prat fall at work or in the street? Well here is your chance to make big money for us. We are...
Humour
Non-fiction
Certificate 15

Devil Coming After

By God'sPoeticChild on Tue, 06 Aug 2013

Started off with a bit of happiness later on it became depression of moments with a little suicide actions. Who ever thought a girl so laughable and...
Poem
Certificate 18

WHEN THE MOON WAS KING

By moonphish on Tue, 06 Aug 2013

years ago, the earth, it seems revolved around the moon the earth would play the fiddle while the moon would call the tune . the moons had seas with...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

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A la Recerche du Cheese Scones Perdu

Posted by purplehaze on Tue, 18 Aug 2026

After a successful day out, circumnavigating roadworks in a satisfying, remembrance-of-commutes-past move, Crankus , the carb demon*, in congratulatory mood, whispered, ‘Afterall, a cheese scone isn’t a cake’. It was in this easily-led frame of carboholic-mind that a homeward bound stop at Newton Dee for candles and chocolate (always allowed), became coffee, cheese scone and a life lesson. Driving a circular route I haven’t used in years, and...

Sean McNulty (2026) Excavatum.

Posted by celticman on Mon, 17 Aug 2026

Sean McNulty’s Excavatum has been described at the haunted twin of The Odyssey but without the $250 million budget. Half of which was spent on marketing. Indeed, the cover for Excavatum, A Northern Folk Story, 1953 looks like a child’s drawing of a fishing boat, with three faceless dark figures and at the pointy bit of the boat, beyond the cabin, another faceless figure looking out to whiteness of the borders and the blue surrounds. Some might...

Is Double-Clicking Still a Thing?

Posted by purplehaze on Mon, 17 Aug 2026

MacBook Neo arrived, all citrus green and lickable. Had pre-emptively bought the new USB-C power adaptor when I was swithering about upgrading iPhone7, no new Apple tech ships with USB-C power adaptors. What a ripoff. Neo arrives fully charged though, and starts itself up when you open the lid. Got three months free of Apple TV and Music, not interested in the three months of games. I have experiments to be getting on with. Am currently playing...

Bessel Van Der Kolk (2014) The Body Keeps the Score. Mind, brain and body in the transformation of trauma.

Posted by celticman on Sun, 16 Aug 2026

For many readers the term The Body Keeps the Score has become a truism. Something that sounds kinda true, but you don’t really know why or who said it. It’s routinely rolled out in debates and conversations about mental health and in particular PTSD. But really it applies to those lives that have been struck by tragedy and trauma. Unfortunately this includes a large group of children. Those hundreds of thousands of children in Palestine, for...

TG Reid (2021)  Blood Water Falls

Posted by celticman on Fri, 14 Aug 2026

TG Reid Blood Water Falls setting is the Highlands. The cover describes it as ‘A DCI Bone Scottish Crime Thriller’. I’ve not read other of Reid’s series of books featuring DCI Bone. But as a standalone book—‘You can’t drown the dead’—that should be unnecessary. But Reid and DCI Bone didn’t work for me. I read around the first 30 pages. Over a million copies of this book sold? Perhaps I should add an exclamation mark! Richard Jones, a geography...

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