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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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I hadn't heard that 'Write
Posted on Thu, 11 Jun 2026
I hadn't heard that 'Write drunk, edit sober' but I love it.
As I don't drink alcohol, I think I will have my own version 'Write with passion, edit without it'.
Read full commentPosted in Tom All Alone 18 (iii)
Good writers like you don't
Posted on Thu, 11 Jun 2026
Good writers like you don't need a lot of words to paint a picture Harry. Like Di I can see your characters in my head perfectly. Think of Hemingway's Iceberg Principle, and he didn't do too badly !
I think it helps that we're...
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Buddy
Posted on Thu, 11 Jun 2026
Pleased to see Buddy put in an appearance
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You evoke the period so
Posted on Tue, 09 Jun 2026
You evoke the period so accurately Harry. I remember being washed in the kitchen sink, we were so small that my sister and I fitted in together. This is c 1960. We did have a bath upstairs but I guess it was easier / more economical to wash us...
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One of the main sticking
Posted on Mon, 08 Jun 2026
One of the main sticking points in the US/Iran negotiations is that the US killed off all the Iranians at the top level of government and then moaned they had nobody with any authority to negotiate with .. it would be funny if it wasn't so tragic...
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I know what you mean about
Posted on Tue, 09 Jun 2026
I know what you mean about stories taking on a life of their own. Personally, I don't necessarily want an ending where everything is tied up. I rather like the books/films where you have a long conversation with your friends about what actually...
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Jenny - all large Tesco
Posted on Mon, 08 Jun 2026
Jenny - all large Tesco supermarkets have a quiet hour Wednesday and Saturday, from 9am-10am. My neighbour goes to the one in Cirencester because he doesn't like noisy and crowded environments. They dim the lights and lower the checkouts noise...
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Oh god I can't see where this
Posted on Tue, 09 Jun 2026
Oh god I can't see where this is going at all except it's a place beyond my imagination.
I have so many questions - what is Arlene going to do that results in her being taken away ? Who took her away ? What can Arlene see about Buddy...
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Thank you !
Posted on Mon, 08 Jun 2026
Thank you !
Haven't been in exactly that situation myself, but one very similar. Always get suspicious if your boyfriend/husband makes a point of telling you, several times, that he really doesn't like some other woman ..
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Yay it worked !
Posted on Sun, 07 Jun 2026
This is what I had to do in Edge based on a combination of your original and new instructions.
Works for Edge v148.0 in an Android v15 phone.
Open ABC tales on phone / Login / Click the 3 bars lower right / settings / site settings...
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