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The Sogginess of the Long-Distance Runner
A fond but terrifying recollection of my childhood sporting achievements.
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Fathoms Above
Oh I do like to be beneath the seaside.
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Shenanigans with Catkins
January 2025 (the latter part) and the things that I saw and did in my usual one hundred words per day sort of way.
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The Mandarin Cherries
January 2025 (the early part) and the things that I saw and did in my usual one hundred words per day sort of way.
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Eleven Thousand Silent Playmates
When an old song revives a memory that uncovers an astonishing secret. You might call this a sequel, or even a prequel, to Making Do with Dusty Springfield.
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Ahh, Bristol!
Posted on Thu, 05 Feb 2026
Ahh, Bristol!
I hated my job in Bristol but I loved the journey to and from work. Each morning I would cycle from my house to Chippenham railway station, a journey of about three miles, most of which was along the bank of the Avon and...
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Hope
Posted on Fri, 06 Feb 2026
Of course I see goodness all around me but every day it's put more and more at risk by those in positions of power and wealth who thrive on hatred, greed and depravation. And while their genocide continues in places like Palestine and Darfur the...
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Cheery me
Posted on Fri, 06 Feb 2026
I'm cheerful enough to get by thanks Makis. You're right, the hatred and the avarice have always been there but the situation appears to have worsened every time I watch the news. Is there music to fade out leprosy?
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Rumen Radev
Posted on Tue, 03 Feb 2026
It's also a bit scary seeing Rumen Radev's photograph on the front page of the ABCTales website. It's probably the nicest place his picture's ever been.
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Our Ludo
Posted on Tue, 03 Feb 2026
Hello Kat.
Thanks for thinking about Ludo but really he’s grand these days. In the area where he had the hole in his leg the skin still looks a bit fragile but fur is growing over it gradually and he’s not in need of any special treatment...
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Exotica
Posted on Mon, 02 Feb 2026
Warm evenings spent in gardens always have a special feel to them. They conjure up exotica in some of the least exotic places. My own exotic memories of a Leeds council estate in the 1970s returned to the surface as I read your words. ...
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Songs of Praise
Posted on Sun, 01 Feb 2026
Every day I'm tapping away at my Cyrillic typewriter. I get the Ш key and the Щ mixed up. Thankfully the word Калашников only appears a couple of times in my latest novel, The Lady in the Lada.
Thora Hird was always a great woman to have...
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Consciousness
Posted on Sat, 06 Oct 2018
I agree with you there. People tell me I’m lucky to be living where I live now. I used to say that I wasn’t so much lucky as determined. But looking back there were so many things that happened, good and bad, without which I wouldn’t have ended...
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ABC & Cats
Posted on Sat, 06 Oct 2018
That’s an incredible story Harry. It’s incredible how things miraculously fall into place. I found ABCTales because of a friend who I knew a long long time ago and who had been a member before my time and died before I found her again. But as a...
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Life
Posted on Sun, 01 Feb 2026
Everything's hard to get your head round when you're a kid. I find that things are hard to get my head round now but I'm so glad I'm not five anymore.
And the bird and the cat... it's not so easy to do with humans but with pets the...
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