Autobiography

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She’s failing now, much more gaunt, but still some communication and happy – happier than years ago, most of her life – but waiting. We think she’d like a present – but what? …
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Poking James MacGuigan’s Cow

This is an old bit of writing from the days when I was still nervous about farm animals. I’ve done a bit of the digital remastering because I was never really happy with it and I thought that while I was fiddling about I would change the subject from a pig to a cow, thus meeting the dictates of this week’s Inspiration Point. So you’d better read it because if you don’t I’ll set James MacGuigan on you.
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Glancing Back

We stood at lakeside...camera poised, I thought about time flowing rapidly; imagined we were two water lillies floating on calm water, laughing at...
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Dozey Bella and Cippy

Time for an update. As the title says, my two brain cancers are cooperating with their radiation treatment and have shrunk a bit - I don’t know the...
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Wolves

Wolves (A Villanelle) Jennifer Pickup 10.08.2023 My heart starts to race at the close of light – There are wolves in the shadows, wolves outside, I...
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Tokyo panic.

Today was a day of panic. I hadn’t realised how late in the afternoon it was till Wanda the tea lady arrived at the office door with the tea cart. “...
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Shelter For The Weary

Each year I journey through the seasons where guardians commune with earth, share awareness of mother nature's embrace; a place where the elemental...
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Song to My Siren

I loved the way we shared that laughter. No other made me laugh like you.
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