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Holiday on Ice
It's like being on a real holiday but without any danger of having to talk to people over breakfast.
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A Midsummer Night’s Apocalypse
When you sit through a storm…
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This Sort of Thing - May 2024 - Three Dart Finish
Words are stupid, words are fun. Words can ward off fierce nuns.
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This Sort of Thing - May 2024 - Up to the Oche
Words of nuance, words of skill. Words when Leeds have lost four-nil.
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The Spice of Life
The musings of an elderly observer of what can be seen in other people’s shopping trolleys.
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The Fog on the Severn
Posted on Tue, 19 Aug 2025
Sounds of things like pebbles rolling downhill and mystery girls creeping up from behind are always louder in the still of a foggy day. Your description of the scene contributes to a gripping build up to her arrival, so I'm looking forward to...
Read full commentPosted in Prophesy - The Immortal Witch (6)
Jeremy Clarkson's internal organs
Posted on Thu, 14 Aug 2025
I could probably accept Jeremy Clarkson's kidney if there were no others available anywhere in the world and as long as he wasn't still attached to it.
I'm really pleased that you've got two new kittens. I didn't like to say before...
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In conquered lands...
Posted on Fri, 15 Aug 2025
With every passing day these words become more relevant. As the bloated bellies of the honchos expand, so does the number of those dining with the dead.
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Lovely
Posted on Thu, 14 Aug 2025
Lovely words depicting a lovely day.
Nice one Jenny.
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Technicolour dreams
Posted on Wed, 13 Aug 2025
A phenomenon not easy to describe in words but you've risen to the task beautifully Paul.
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Brean
Posted on Wed, 13 Aug 2025
I once went to a wedding evening do in a pub in Brean. There were no knives or cat herders but there was a fight. Your description of the peaceful seaside surroundings make me wish I'd gone back on a better day.
Nice one Paul!
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A one-off
Posted on Mon, 11 Aug 2025
Thank you Paul.
Each time of reading one of Coral's poems I discover something new in it. Her writing is very deep, as was her personality. I could never match her standard but she definately made me take a second look at my own writing...
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Barbarians of the backwoods
Posted on Tue, 12 Aug 2025
I think it's predominantly people who live there that call it the greatest nation on earth. The rest of us can see through the ever thinning walls of their bubble. Even before Trump arrived on the scene it was a country that had issues with its...
Read full commentPosted in The Greatest Nation On Earth! by Alfred N.Muggins
For Coral
Posted on Fri, 29 Oct 2010
Oh Di, choosing Coral's poem as Pick of the Day today is an absolutely beautiful thing to do.
I know she'd have been delighted.
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Beautiful
Posted on Mon, 11 Aug 2025
What a beautiful thing to post. I love the fact that you have such good memories of her.
Good on you ScoZen.
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