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The Beautiful Game
This is a letter to Benjamin Netanyahu. It's about a real issue which is happening right now. I know that there are many terrible things that have happened, and are happening, in Gaza and the West Bank, and a children's football pitch may seem such a minor thing. But it really touched a nerve with me. I feel powerless to do anything about it, but at least I can cry into the void with my letter.
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Sleeping Beauty
Kind of in response to the Inspiration Point, except that I misread it as 'spinning' because I didn't have my glasses on ! I thought I'd post it anyway ..
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Winter Solstice
Yay ! We're round the bump At the bottom of the year Coming up the other side Towards summer
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Elaine
On either side the profiles lie You choose the ones which catch your eye The pretty girls get picked, not I - Elaine of Cardiff (Splott). For...
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Nessie Saves The Day
This is a true story, and readers, I was there… Every bank holiday at the end of May, the Gloucestershire village of South Cerney has a Duck Race, in...
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Superduck Saves The World
Posted on Wed, 22 Jul 2026
I vote for the series !
Is Gregor related to the Perfectly Normal Ducks by any chance ? I remember them.
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Spot The Dog
Posted on Tue, 21 Jul 2026
Worse than that never hearing of the Woodetops, Andy Pandy or The Flower Pot Men, Tim hadn't read a single book since he left school apart from a Wilbur Smith novel which someone had given his mother when she was in hospital. This was nothing to...
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You're a natural story teller
Posted on Tue, 21 Jul 2026
You're a natural story teller Jane, it's so easy to slide into this and be right there. I loved your phrase 'if you’re going to kill every man who speaks out of turn to you, you’re going to need your own graveyard'.
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Thank you very much eds !
Posted on Mon, 20 Jul 2026
Thank you very much eds !
I did go home and tell my mum, and she thought it was hilariously funny, and by then I did too. Eventually we calmed down and then she said 'Well I never liked him anyway' and that started us off all over again...
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Rein me in, Zebedee !
Posted on Mon, 13 Jul 2026
Brian the Snail, now there's a name from the past !
Slugs and snails are mad about cat food (they're not vegan like most people think). When I put the left over cat food out for the hedgehog he has to be pretty snappy to beat the slimy...
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Hi Paul
Posted on Mon, 13 Jul 2026
Hi Paul
Your poem is a lovely memorial to Skye. They always stay with you, loyal even after they've left. Little reminders pop up. I do hope you get another one, please tell us if you do.
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Gosh Turlough I had no idea
Posted on Thu, 09 Jul 2026
Gosh Turlough I had no idea of all that, and me a Catholic in a convent in the 60s and 70s too. Thank you for explaining it, I will go and look it up. I'd read your book about it.
Re the bonfires, I did see today in the news about the...
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God knows, apparently
Posted on Thu, 09 Jul 2026
I always found it strange at the height of the Troubles that we had different kinds of Christians literally attacking another.
We haven't moved on since the medieval period when the Crusades moved from the Middle East to Eastern Europe and...
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It's Me or the Dog !
Posted on Wed, 08 Jul 2026
I loved this, it's very funny and very clever and very true. (I'm one of JD Vance's childless cat ladies).
I hope you will write more adventures of Cybele.
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Posted in The Way We Heard - Dog Days are Over
Good point Jane. My sister
Posted on Thu, 09 Jul 2026
Good point Jane. My sister is a farmer and my step mother is a riding instructor. People like that have two choices - cancel their work and lose money, or slog it out in the heat.
I'd like to see something in the news about how outdoor...
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