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Twenty Minutes at the Village Bus Stop
I'm sitting in the village bus shelter. It's twenty minutes before the bus is due, but its arrival times are as fluid as today's pouring rain, and as...
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Autumn Haiku
Daylight disappears Cold nights and warm embraces Hide us until spring
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Retreads
“How long was I dead for ?”, I asked Jason the male nurse as he checked the chart hanging at the end of my metal framed bed. A minute, two minutes, I...
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A Pen y ffrwd love story
Sometimes I run up the hill, and sometimes I ride Khyber up there. Now I am sitting on the Pen y ffrwd hillside looking out over the long grass of...
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Harper's To Kill A Holiday
Posted on Fri, 27 Mar 2026
What a fantastic story Turlough ! As usual, your own blend of humour, information and entertainment.
I have often wondered how you ended up in Bulgaria. I'm fascinated by how the tiny little quirks of fate ping us off in unexpected...
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Brilliant ! I really like
Posted on Wed, 25 Mar 2026
Brilliant ! I really like the back story and the neat dovetail with the forgery thread. Has Amos messed with Mossad ..
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Bear wth me
Posted on Mon, 16 Mar 2026
JoAnne I have to ask you - is that really a bear sitting in your car ?
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This was an old piece I've
Posted on Sat, 14 Mar 2026
This was an old piece I've had squirreled away for ages, and when I was looking for something that might come under the IP heading 'Misunderstanding', it jumped right out.
I'm sure we're all putting out signals which don't get picked up,...
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Now come on CM don't do
Posted on Sat, 14 Mar 2026
Now come on CM don't do yourself down, we think about you !
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I loved this. Really well
Posted on Sun, 15 Mar 2026
I loved this. Really well written, atmospheric and engaging. It's got a cryptic style which reminds me of the male first person noir detective stories of the 50's.
But Calypso did fall in love with Odysseus, so maybe there is hope ......
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It's funny how children
Posted on Thu, 12 Mar 2026
It's funny how children rationalise everything according to their own, obviously vey limited, experience. I can understand where the goat / vote confusion comes from.
I remember early on in Cider With Rosie, Laurie Lee goes to...
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Nigella
Posted on Sun, 08 Mar 2026
Lovely poem, Jay. I grow Nigella in my garden, white ones. Even before the flowers come out it fills the flower bed with fine ferny foliage. Then after the flowers are over, the goldfinches go mad for the seed.
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Hi Jenny
Posted on Fri, 06 Mar 2026
Hi Jenny
Opacity is a symptom rather than a cause - it's a result of inflammation, and that can be caused by all sorts of things, in my case it was viral pneumonia.
I absolutely think it's a good idea to go to a medical...
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Jenny I am so sorry for your
Posted on Fri, 06 Mar 2026
Jenny I am so sorry for your experiences. I spent 7 hours in GWH A&E once. In your previous post you described it as hell, but I think you are doing hell a disservice. Hell is like Butlins compared to Swindon A&E.
When I had...
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