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Our only conifer is a fir

Posted on Wed, 15 Dec 2021

Our only conifer is a fir tree at the far end of the wild bit of our garden. It's been there for four years now and it looks beautiful. We bought it from a market stall round about this time of year. It looked very sad so we bought it to give it...

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Well written words, as always

Posted on Thu, 16 Dec 2021

Well written words, as always.

I've always wondered why a caterpillar should have so many more legs than the moth or butterfly that it turns into. But now I know. So thank you.

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At the foot of the stairs in

Posted on Tue, 14 Dec 2021

At the foot of the stairs in my Nan’s house, a dark brown knobbly object hung by a piece of thread from a rusty drawing pin pushed into the off-white emulsioned ceiling. Once or twice a year throughout my childhood I would ask the elders of our...

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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....

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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