Autobiography
We have three little trees …
We have a little yew tree – dropped by a bird? – it grew: we moved it to a safer spot, and told the girls that yew has leaves and berries poisonous – the’re for …
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Private Psychiatric Hospital
At last 100% the right medicines after more than 20 years state care, the food is good too but they are very strict on hospital rules, and...
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The Fall of the Mountain King
The best laid plans of teenage dreamers often go awry.
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Beneath Cnoc Daod
It would be hard to find a place more beautiful, peaceful and welcoming than the Beara Peninsula in West Cork.
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Misguided In The Early 90s
Dear diary... What may have seemed like impulse back then, leaves me drawing back curtains; greeting the sunshine and wondering! Why me..what about...
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Around The Havens
( Pembrokeshire, mid-September) The sea is vast. Wave crests rush in, breaking in white cascade. Invigorating salty sea-air blast. Summer’s end, and...
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Tempestuous Stirrings
No solace found in the night, what wakes and leaves me cowering beneath quilt? My childhood imagination speaks of mischievous fears, spine chilling...
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Bonkers and Conkers
To start off, it was mostly conkers. At home, a pair of Tonka's. Learnt to drive, amongst the honkers. Got old, and saw the world as bonkers.
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I Am A Voyeur
I can be seen all about & beyond each valley to ridges undulating- Precambrian Shield to vastness of mineral & grain as earth-treasures to...
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Carefree Days
Where spirit tune plays softly in drifting late summer stillness; Maple tree took rein of my heartstrings, rocked me beneath shady limbs, entwined...
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