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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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Shropshire
Posted on Tue, 18 Aug 2026
I have had many lovely walking holidays in Shropshire, it's so beautiful and unspoilt. I don't know why more people haven't heard of the Welsh Marches but then perhaps it's a good job they haven't ! My family (the Lancasters) were saddlers in...
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I read it as a woman and it
Posted on Mon, 17 Aug 2026
I read it as a woman and it completely resonated with me (my husband ran off with his best friend's wife). I thought you got the development of the affair and the final leaving absolutely right. And beautifully expressed too. Well deserves...
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WTF
Posted on Sat, 15 Aug 2026
I've been single for a very long time now. As the poem (is it a poem ?) says, I'm quite content. I've had a few offers but nothing tempted me away from my comfortable, independent life.
But I do wonder sometimes – say I suddenly met...
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Cry me a river
Posted on Fri, 14 Aug 2026
And the Second World War motorbike and two dead German soldiers.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2gp3zmkpmo
I know it's not on the same scale, but...
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criteria schmiteria - you
Posted on Fri, 14 Aug 2026
criteria schmiteria - you just write it anyway.
My dad (dodgy Dimitar from Southampton), Benny Hill and John Stonehouse all went to school together. Not a lot of people know that.
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Spooky
Posted on Thu, 13 Aug 2026
I live near Cirencester and watched it through a colander projecting little round suns onto a piece of white paper. My friend had made a pinhole camera out of a cardboard box. The little round suns did briefly look like someone had taken a bite...
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Back to Black (not)
Posted on Sat, 08 Aug 2026
I've never seen anyone in England ask to take a supermarket trolley back to get the pound coin, but I've had it happen to me in France. You must be very fluent in Bulgarian if you could understand what the guy was saying about tumours and not...
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Thanks Turlough I will look
Posted on Thu, 06 Aug 2026
Thanks Turlough I will look at the 2 links and the boys Hafez and Saadi tomorrow. It's always difficult reading anything in translation because you know you're not reading what the author actually wrote. I love the Fitzgerald ( not Burton - I...
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Hi Turlough I hope your
Posted on Thu, 06 Aug 2026
Hi Turlough I hope your Iranian friend is alive and well and one day you will meet up again.
I loved your poem, it reminded me of Omar Khayyam.
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Jaws
Posted on Mon, 27 Jul 2026
Oh dear, sad and funny at the same time, Why do people do it ? Why did we do it ? And you're absolutely right, the naff disco afterwards is always the worst bit.
"At his cousin Pauline’s wedding the happy couple had had a row and split...
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