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All the President’s Biscuits
Me and the world around me during the first half of July 2024, in 100 words per day.
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Candi Staton, the Sea and Me
Memories of my last night before becoming a salty sea dog. It all happened at the Devon public house in the fashionable Cross Gates district of Leeds, round about the end of August 1976.
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Tang Hall Beck
Sunny Saturdays with the sticklebacks and my friend John Lancaster. A memory of York from 1966.
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Eric’s War
A concise history of World War Two as told to me long ago by my dear old friend Eric. Additional material was provided by his lovely wife Peggy.
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My Döner and Chide
The surprises that turn up in your pocket of a Thursday morning.
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Wish!
Posted on Mon, 14 Apr 2025
I wish I knew what happens next.
It's nice to see you starting a new story and to be in on it from the beginning. Good luck with it.
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Even older than me
Posted on Sat, 12 Apr 2025
It absolutely amazes me how a living organism can survive so long. Imagine the things it has lived through. I wouldn't want to be an oak tree myself though.
Lovely poem Jenny.
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Yeats and Villa
Posted on Wed, 09 Apr 2025
Thanks for that Paul. I pick up the Yeats book from time to time but I'd be fibbing if I said I'd read it from cover to cover. Days with absolutely nothing at all to do are perfect for such literary adventures.
On a totally different...
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A gripping beginning
Posted on Mon, 01 Aug 2022
A gripping end to the first instalment. I feel this is going to be an altogether gripping tale.
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Perfidia
Posted on Sun, 06 Apr 2025
I must confess that I've only started reading Willow's Missing Tail quite recently. I'm enjoying the read but a bit lost at times (most times) so I can see that I need to go the very beginning and start from scratch. Don't wait for me though....
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Dirndl
Posted on Thu, 03 Apr 2025
Ta CM. That's my weekend entertainment sorted.
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Walking free
Posted on Thu, 03 Apr 2025
It's nice to think that humans could walk as free as the untamed creatures. It takes a lot of bottle for us to turn our backs on the superficial trappings that deter us from it while for many there is no choice.
Strong words to describe a...
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Kirschkuchen
Posted on Mon, 31 Mar 2025
A few years back I was at the Olympiastadion where Hertha play. It's a fascinating place to visit even for those weirdos who don't like football as it oozes history and style. At first glance it looks like one of those modern all-concrete...
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Light Showers
Posted on Sun, 23 Mar 2025
Hello Jenny.
Since the destruction caused here by last summer's giant hailstones I'm all for the words of your poem, particularly the let light showers descend more slowly bit.
I'm sorry I didn't read this sooner. I've been...
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Mud
Posted on Mon, 03 Mar 2025
I'm sorry to hear that Di. In such situations the feeling of a loss if dignity is sometimes as hard to take as the pain. But well done the kind man and I'm glad you're feeling better now. And if it was only mud on his posh coat then surely it...
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