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This has a Dickens' Christmas
Posted on Wed, 15 Dec 2021
This has a Dickens' Christmas Carol feel to it, but much darker.
I thought your line
Bill felt the man’s soul seeping into the asphalt like snow melting.
expressed the gravity in the storyline particularly well....
Read full commentPosted in Saints and Sinners – A Christmas Fable (Part Two of Two)
Mince pies aren’t a thing in
Posted on Sun, 12 Dec 2021
Mince pies aren’t a thing in Bulgaria. You can’t even buy the jars of mincemeat in the shops. Priyatelka is French and they’re also not a thing in France, so she had never tasted them until she came with me to England a couple of years ago, but...
Read full commentPosted in M is for Mince Pie and Mouse Pantry
Your words create atmosphere
Posted on Tue, 14 Dec 2021
Your words create atmosphere and bring your town's fair to life ... and they made me laugh.
Especially this bit ...
I often think how it might turn out if this small town fair were in Altrincham instead of Alhaurín....
Read full commentPosted in Feria
And that's an interesting bit
Posted on Mon, 13 Dec 2021
And that's an interesting bit of information about Victorian postmen. I learn so much about the world and its contents through reading the content of ABC Tales.
I always keep an eye out for the wild birds but there is no sign of any today...
Read full commentPosted in Robin At Winter Solstice
Hello Grace.
Posted on Tue, 14 Dec 2021
Hello Grace.
Mayonnaise is so called because it was first made, apparently, in the town of Mahon on the Spanish / Catalan island of Menorca. And it has nothing at all to do with County Mayo in the west of Ireland as a lot of people...
Read full commentPosted in The Mystery Of The Heinz Salad Cream With 30% Less Fat.
In Bulgaria the word for a
Posted on Mon, 13 Dec 2021
In Bulgaria the word for a robin is cherven ogradka (червеногръдка) which, literally translated, means red collar. We do see them about, along with a few blue tits and hedge sparrows but, after the great numbers of wild birds...
Read full commentPosted in Robin At Winter Solstice
As in the story of The
Posted on Mon, 13 Dec 2021
As in the story of The Princess And The Pea?
The technology that young people have today would have been considered as Space Age stuff when I was a kid. I'm not a complete technophobe but these days I often feel as though I am being left...
Read full commentPosted in I'm Not A Princess.
It's awful. I remember when I
Posted on Sat, 11 Dec 2021
It's awful. I remember when I lived in Wiltshire in England it seemed that a couple of times a year a car full of teenagers would be involved in a fatal accident very late at night.
I could always imagine the circumstances leading up to...
Read full commentPosted in The Seat Belt.
My feelings entirely!
Posted on Sun, 12 Dec 2021
My feelings entirely!
You can say you don't like any other time or day of the year and people will say 'Ah well. Never mind.' But we are not allowed to not like Christmas. 'Bah, humbug!' is the response we get from the revellers, which...
Read full commentPosted in The Mouth of Christmas
And then there's the
Posted on Sat, 11 Dec 2021
And then there's the beautiful music of Franz Liszt. If it wasn't for him we'd all be Lisztless.
Read full commentPosted in L is for Letters (to North Pole) and Lichen
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