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preserving time
When this pan's hot, usually it's dull- full of potatoes or lentils. Tonight, blackberry juice simmers fathomless and darkest purple as the pupil of...
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flotsam and jetsam
On the beach, among litter a herring gull fledgeling, dead beside a Happy Birthday balloon background : Soothed in vast freedom and insouciance of...
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jormungandr
Some things will never change. At Summer's height bright as a plastic butterfly, the Fair unpacks on the Prom.
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suddenly
Grey cloud-palm presses down crushed air trees still as puppets hanging from their strings waiting a hiss across fields...... becomes patter on...
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fallow
A sheet of tall stemmed notes, soft rushes, grow yellow-ochre, golden-green, and with brown flower rests rustling, make fresh glissando tides of...
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Agree with Jenny, absolutely
Posted on Fri, 03 Oct 2025
Agree with Jenny, absolutely brilliant poem, Rhiannon, Thank You for posting
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sorry, have not found That's
Posted on Sun, 16 Jun 2013
sorry, have not found That's Life, yet. But I am glad I did not find it at once, or I would not have found these Diary entries :0) Could really have done with reading them, 20 years ago!
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Jaundice! Yes, my son had
Posted on Sun, 16 Jun 2013
Jaundice! Yes, my son had that. But POOR YOU, having flu as well as all this!!! I can't imagine have a worse experience, you must have been exhausted before all this even started! I AM SO GLAD they worked out about your son's soft palate, that...
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Jenny, I found this while
Posted on Sun, 20 Feb 2011
Jenny, I found this while looking for your That's Life piece. It must have been so hard to write! Often I have heard people say "don't be defined by the bad things that have happened to you". Having read your amazingly beautiful and uplifting...
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I like very much your
Posted on Thu, 02 Oct 2025
I like very much your description of all the abundance! this whole chunk is fabulous, "crunching through a carpet of beech mast,
and walking over a pattern of sycamore aeroplanes."
There are lots of berries here, too. On the radio...
Read full commentPosted in What a lunch-spot!
Jenny! I had no idea you have
Posted on Thu, 02 Oct 2025
Jenny! I had no idea you have been through so much hardship! What a tough start to being a Mum, when we are so tired and vulnerable, with a young life to protect. Well Done brilliant you persevering to make things better!
Read full commentPosted in All's Well That Ends Well
Two people hurting, and not
Posted on Wed, 01 Oct 2025
Two people hurting, and not talking and one trying to survive by changing, and the other by pretending as hard as he can that nothing has changed. What will happen when he wakes up the next morning? So sensitively written!
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I like very much the idea of
Posted on Thu, 25 Sep 2025
I like very much the idea of days being like footprints. Also, "Flowery race is on, who will / Survive?" is brilliant. You are so good at finding a unique and intimate way of looking at things
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Such interesting, practical
Posted on Thu, 25 Sep 2025
Such interesting, practical questions you raise, whether one is distracted by by an uncomfy seat, or kept awake, and if these were considerations of the carpenters, or it might have been the price of wood, or space for the seating! And as Jenny...
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How frightening! I hope you
Posted on Thu, 25 Sep 2025
How frightening! I hope you have stopped thinking of it so much, now, I would be shaky like you! And I would be miffed if people downstairs thought I could cause the whole house to shake just be falling over!!! I loved how you put it though, as...
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