Autobiography

Cherry

the Janus Look 7

Since I am sticking with this title, I feel I should start writing with my Bell’s Palsy story . I was thinking that it was all doing quite well - and...

Teashop Times #?

There was an interesting start to my observations today, as I spied a well dressed, middle-aged lady approaching along the street. Her poodle had a...
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If spin-dryers were uninvented …

In days of yore when we were newly wed, it was awhile before we could afford a twin-tub or a spinner, and for a while I tried to squeeze – as Grandma...
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Root and Branch

When I was young, I was just a brute. Then I saw the world ran on loot. Even worse, it was all shoot, shoot shoot. I'd found the answer; our...
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Cherry

Amongst The Memories

Dear diary...Amongst all those young recollections of diverse friendships, now I have only memories that bind us. Words in a poem are linked by...
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Poem of the week

Ciao nonna

My grandma passed away last Friday. She was 99 and died peacefully in her bed after withering away slowly for the past two or three years. She had survived herself, and there was relief that she was free at last. However, we all feel older, lonelier, more vulnerable now. This, however tiny, is for her. And for my dad.
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Sheep, flowers and sunlight

Park the car, hungry excited sheep and lambs run down to the gate …the conical steep wooded hill … what is that odd stick-stalk at the side of the way? Soon a troupe of them –
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Story of the week

Janus Look 4

Over two months have gone by since I had my Bells Palsy attack, and I look a lot more normal now, although my eye still won’t blink, and my dentist...
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Teashop Short

I sat outside for the first time this year and of course it wasn't two minutes before somebody landed on my lap. It's the same in carparks when you...
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Lace of our lives...

Silver slivers wind their way memory-wire threaded through life’s everyday by words loved-ones said. Images beaded round and whole capture a moment...
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