Autobiography
shaft of sunlight
Watch that shaft of sunlight through the smoke and dust, a bright patch slowly crawling on the wall to tell the time. ~ Waking slowly. This was...
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Last Train
Last Train Jennifer Pickup (For my Dad, a Steam Train enthusiast) So this is the end of the line, This is the last stop on the track, No more trains...
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Alfred Muggins’ Easter Holiday by Alfred N.Muggins Part 2
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(31/3/24 / 6/4/24 / 15/4/24) The Easter weekend this year also coincided with Changing of the Clocks as the hour leapt forward, evaporating a whole...
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More Offa’s Dyke views and Nosey young cattle @ Knighton
29/5/24 South from Knighton Offa’s Dyke path (not Kington this time, further north) Steep uphill through shady green woods, mossy tree bases. Out to...
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Alfred Muggins’ Easter Holiday by Alfred N.Muggins
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31/3/24 (6/4/24) The Easter holidays approached. “What holiday?” asked Alfred Muggins desperately! As it approached his intention of writing about...
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The Spice of Life
The musings of an elderly observer of what can be seen in other people’s shopping trolleys.
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The Envelope: God's Provision
The early 1980s were a scary time for parents with toddlers. A week did not go by without the media reporting children developing Reye’s syndrome, an often fatal condition following a viral infection like the flu or chickenpox.
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A Child of Great Promise
After two miscarriages, Liz and I quietly began to accept the prospect of being childless. Then, in 1974, we received the good news that we were with child again.
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Bill or Bob?
If William Shakespeare and Bob Marley had a fight, who do you think would win? There’s only one way to find out…
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On top of the world again!
(Hergest Ridge, west of Kington, Offa’s Dyke Path, 23/5/24) Cold and overcast, but clear – blustery, blasting … northward humps and dips of mid-Wales – a bit of light catches the new bright-greening fern fronds emerging,…
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